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The following are some common reasons people look to therapy for help:
Significant or Chronic Emotional Distress
People seek therapy to relieve pain or distress. Experiencing emotional pain is part of being human. But sometimes this distress is severe or long-standing and it could impair your daily life. Therapy might be appropriate for you if you feel emotional distress -- sadness, anxiety, grief -- that is persistent and troubling.
Relationship Problems
Often, emotional distress comes from difficulty in relationships. Troubled relationships may involve a spouse, parent, child, coworker or significant other. Marriage therapy or relationship therapy can help you understand the root of the problem and provide you with the tools you need to correct it.
Family Concerns
Families are the primary source of love, joy, warmth and togetherness in our lives. And yet, family life is also full of many challenging problems and conflicts. If your family is facing a difficult time, family therapy may be able to help.
Coping Mechanisms
Sometimes emotional distress or relationship problems are associated with coping mechanisms, such as excessive shyness, weak communication, lack of assertiveness, or poor anger control. Therapy can enable you to acquire or strengthen skills that can benefit many of the most important areas of your life.
Sexual Problems
Sexual dissatisfaction and dysfunction are common problems that can be embarrassing to talk about. Therapists can make substantial progress in helping people obtain the most enjoyment out of their sexual functioning.
Recent Loss
Powerful attachments to others are uniquely human experiences. Enduring breaks in these attachments -- through death or separation -- can result in great emotional pain. Psychotherapy can help you cope with the loss.
Victim of Trauma or Abuse
Being the victim of physical or sexual abuse, or another form of violence, such as being in an automobile accident, can overwhelm your capacity to cope and leave scars that impair your ability to live a normal life. Psychotherapy can provide a confidential arena to discuss these issues with a caring, supportive person. By focusing on healing the wound caused by the trauma, psychotherapy can help you move forward with your life.
A Clinical Disorder or Condition
Persons with certain disorders or conditions can benefit from psychotherapy. To learn more about these disorders click here.
Personal Growth
Therapy can help you overcome obstacles that have kept you from reaching your goals and becoming the person you want to be. Although you might not have a clinical condition or symptoms, therapy can help you learn more about yourself, as well as others, and how you can live your life with deeper personal satisfaction.
Career Issues
Career issues can affect all parts of your life - family, friends, and even your sense of who you are. Talking with a trained professional in a safe and confidential environment can help when you are dealing with career issues.
Why not just talk to a good friend?
There are times when the sharing and understanding of a good friend is just what we need. However, when the degree of emotional pain and the severity of symptoms suggest a problem of greater depth, then your pain, anger or confusion may be too painful for a friend to listen to without judgment. Even the best of friends may want us to cheer up or to not go on and on about the same thing for too long. But sometimes it is important to not cheer up and important to keep going on and on until things are really understood. A therapist provides a safe, supportive, accepting, and non-critical environment in which you can explore your thoughts and feelings about any issue in your life.
To learn more click on the links below
What is Psychotherapy and How Does it Work?
How to Choose the Right Therapist
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
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