Does therapy really help?

Like watering seeds and watching them grow, we have the potential to create the changes we want to see and move to a place of lessened discomfort and suffering. As you create new emotional experiences, learn and apply new concepts in therapy, your brain literally begins to change to support those new associations and skills.

Photo by Jan Huber.

Beyond new skills and new perspectives, psychotherapy is a means to facilitate relational and emotional healing that leads to growth in both expected and unexpected ways. In daily life, our well-intentioned friends and family members will often move to problem solving or advice giving in response to hearing about a problem you have. Opportunities for validation, positive emotional experiences, skill building and getting to potential roots and themes within the issues are commonly missed. Therapy provides conducive opportunities where interactions and interventions happen to process thoughts, feelings and patterns effectively, allowing you to arrive at greater change and resolution. 

Maybe you've struggled with a pattern of feeling, thinking and living in a certain way with a known cause that needs addressing. Maybe you aren't at all sure how or why you're functioning the way you do. Or maybe you know exactly what needs to change and just can't seem to make that happen. A therapist is someone who cares about it all and has the willingness to skillfully come alongside you to address those concerns and meet underlying needs.