My Perspective On Therapy

Therapy helps you, the client:

• Feel understood, seen and heard
• Focus on yourself: your identity, needs, and wishes
• Choose between more-of-the-same and another way
• Cut down negativity, blaming of self and others
• Get over anger, despair, fear, the pull of the past
• Rediscover small and large pleasures, a meaning in life
• Accept life constraints, frustrations and losses
• Dare to dream, believe, plan and act
• Master the will to carry out wishes and plans

The therapist:

• Focuses strongly on a client
• Candid about the client and situation
• Mindful of where a client is stuck
• Skilled in helping clients get unstuck
• Coaches coping in difficult situations
• Encourages a demoralized client to go on
• Challenges a client to risk change, act now
• Teaches acceptance of reality, life constraints
• Tries another way when the client is not advancing
• Thinks beyond the hourly session