Do I Really Need Therapy? How Can It Help Me?
Everyone goes through challenging situations in life... but, while you may have successfully navigated through difficulties, seeking out professional support in times of need or experiencing symptoms. In fact, therapy is for people who have enough self-awareness to realize they need a helping hand. A therapist offers clarification and interventions to target your unique, specific needs. Through the structure of outpatient therapy, you are taking responsibility by addressing life’s circumstances and making a commitment to change unhealthy or undesired ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Therapy provides long-lasting benefits and support, giving you the tools you need to deal with stressors, learn and apply new adaptive patterns of thought and action and overcome and grow from challenges you face.
Therapists can provide an objective, fresh perspective on a difficult problem or guide you in the direction of a solution. The sustaining benefits you obtain from therapy depend on how well you use the process and put into practice what you learn. The best evidence of treatment effectiveness is a patient’s response and engagement in it and a demonstration of progress by changes in action, thoughts, feelings, and sensations leading to more desirable, sustained results. By incorporating self-reports, observation, and standardized assessment tools throughout treatment, a patient can feel and see the progress being made.
Some of the benefits available from therapy include:
Therapists can provide an objective, fresh perspective on a difficult problem or guide you in the direction of a solution. The sustaining benefits you obtain from therapy depend on how well you use the process and put into practice what you learn. The best evidence of treatment effectiveness is a patient’s response and engagement in it and a demonstration of progress by changes in action, thoughts, feelings, and sensations leading to more desirable, sustained results. By incorporating self-reports, observation, and standardized assessment tools throughout treatment, a patient can feel and see the progress being made.
Some of the benefits available from therapy include:
- Finding Resolution to the issues or concerns that led you to seek therapy
- Insight - Attaining a better understanding of yourself, your goals, and values
- Recognizing and Changing old thought and behavior patterns and developing new ones
- Developing Skills for improving your relationship with yourself and others
- Learning New Ways to Cope with symptoms, e.g. stress, tension, anger, impulses
- Managing Responses to grief, depression, and emotional pressures
- Improving communication, increasing assertiveness, and practicing active listening skills
- Discovering and Learning Problem Solving Strategies for life's transitional periods or in relationships
- Improving your self-esteem and boosting self-confidence, while gaining a confidant and support
