Psychotherapy is a process whereby you can begin to understand yourself better. It is a safe place that provides you with a container for you to let go.
You can acquire some powerful insights into your life and the way you live. It is a place where you can gain valuable introspection about yourself. You can begin to explore patterns that might not be serving you any longer.
As you pay attention and listen to yourself and to your feelings in a sacred environment with no distractions, you can get to know more about yourself. Becoming aware of what you need, want and desire and what you don’t, is a way to start getting conscious.
Psychotherapy is a tool that places a mirror up in front of you so you can see yourself more clearly.
In a laboratory -like and confidential environment where your therapist is unattached to the outcome, you can begin to be yourself, get honest about what you feel without shame or judgment, and learn to honor and value yourself.
It is a process where you will discover parts of yourself that you may have lost, let go of resentments that you may be carrying against yourself or others, learn how to forgive, heal the past, complete something that never got finished, grieve a loss that was never fully grieved, and learn how to make peace with yourself and others.
It is a tool to help you to learn how to let go and be free.
With the right psychotherapist that you feel safe to be yourself with, you can learn new ways to be in the world.
For instance, perhaps you feel uncomfortable telling others what you need or how you feel, and end up in relationships where you feel inadequate, not valued, depleted, or taken advantage of.
Learning to honor your voice, and create safe and respectful ways of taking care of yourself in your relationships can empower you in a whole new way! That is called boundary setting. Something many of us have learned was selfish.
It isn’t! It’s self loving!
Psychotherapy helps you to identify what old outdated programs you might still be running in your life. Many of us were taught, or made up (as young children) stories to make sense of our worlds that were never true from the start.
Maybe you began believing that you weren’t good enough based on something you experienced when you were 6! We all arrived here on the planet good enough!!
When we begin to get truthful with ourselves, we can begin to feel freer, lighter, less burdened. Many of us can unconsciously hold unresolved anger, fears (including living fully and abundantly), guilt, emotional pain that can keep us from living freely.
This can result in tightness, tension, and stress held in the mind/body. It can even cause physical illness.
Through the use of the breath, we can begin to explore what is unconsciously held in the cells of the body that the mind is not even aware is being stored there.
The mind and body cannot be separated, and it is quite important to work on all levels in order to make deep, long lasting change.
In relationships, there are many tools and skills that can be learned to enhance and improve the ability to communicate more effectively. Many of us take things personally, get angry, hold grudges, blame others, and feel like we are a victim of something someone said or did “to” us.
By looking more deeply into ourselves, it is possible to grow beyond this, and have choices about how to transform these old patterns that can keep us stuck, alone, scared, or angry.
It is possible that by viewing things from a objective perspective, things can begin to look quite different and you can see things in a way you might not have ever seen them before. Enlightening!
The goal of psychotherapy is to feel free and at peace. It is to have new choices as to how to deal with life issues, and to love and be loved from a higher and more fulfilling place.
