Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy is a process people seek out in order to achieve certain things in their life or help them understand things that haven’t gone well. Sometimes there are explicit goals—career, relationship, creative or financial goals. Other times there are “ways of being” that have been highly beneficial in some respects but not so great in others. For some, psychotherapy is a place to speak the truth about one's life because there is no other place. For others, psychotherapy offers a space to know more deeply about oneself or have a type of safe, supportive and respectful relationship that wasn’t possible before. 

There are many, many other kinds of things people can get out of therapy and there are many reasons people seek it out. For some, the relationship between the patient and therapist is fertile ground to understand problems outside the office.  For others, it is space to get to pay attention to unconscious life. For others, it is a place to help build a sense of self, and for others it is struggles with reality, and still for others it's about how to hear one’s own thoughts and feelings within a storm of anxieties or a cloud of depression. 

Whatever the reason that brings the person in, it takes courage because nobody knows precisely what will happen or if anything will happen or what will be discovered or known. But the risk is most often outweighed by what’s to be gained --changes that can have a profound impact on the most important aspects of one’s life.