Benefits of Therapy

Therapy gives you the opportunity to focus on yourself in a safe, non-judgmental, and compassionate environment guided by your own expectations and goals. You’ll find that in therapy you can openly discuss your own thoughts and feelings and explore how experiences in your life have created coping skills and core beliefs and how those impact you and your relationships today. Finding and connecting with a good therapist is essential to giving you a safe place to learn, heal, and grow.

Most people approach therapy with the goal to know themselves better and or to alleviate emotional pain or confusion. Therapy is about discovery. Learning more about ourselves and how to make changes to the way that we absorb and respond to the world around us. Therapy can be a place to vent, but real growth happens when were willing to be vulnerable, dig deeper, and put in hard work. Here is a list of benefits that many clients experience.

• Feel heard, understood, and validated
• Feel more empowered
• Reduced feelings of shame and fear
• Increased ability to see things from a different point of view
• Ability to understand yourself and others better
• Increased compassion for self and others
• Identify and appreciate your inner parts and how they impact you
• Learn to identify and address abusive, narcissistic, and toxic behaviors
• Redefine negative core beliefs
• Feel a reduction in anxiety
• Feel more hopeful and less depressed
• Learn healthier coping skills that benefit self and relationships
• Improve your parenting skills
• Identify ways to show up for your children and help them become their best self
• Feel less frustrated or angry
• Increased ability to set healthy boundaries
• Ability to navigate difficult emotions or situations improves
• Learn skills to better resolve conflict in relationships, at home, work, or school.
• Improved communication skills
• Discover how to foster more connected, healthier relationships
• Reduce the effects of how trauma impacts your life
• Find healthier ways to express your own needs
• Learn how to help others show up for you and how to better show up for them
• Reduction in stress
• Understand why we feel suicidal and how to minimize suicidal ideation
• Reduced PTSD symptoms
• Increased self-awareness
• Improved self-esteem
• Enhanced ability to emotionally self regulate
• Increased motivation
• Minimize effects from difficult emotions such as from trauma, grief, and loss
• Learn healthier coping skills to replace negative and addictive coping skills