Often habitual patterns, maladaptive behaviours and faulty belief systems leave people in psychological and emotional turmoil.
So often feeling completely isolated or detached form others, due to various life circumstances, past and present that have been left unresolved to the point of either coping or complete unmanageability. This creates stress which often leads a decreased quality of life and health complications. Often childhood attachments and traumas are unresolved and prevents the individual from moving forward in their lives.
The misconception about psychotherapy is that an individual needs to either be completely broken and just able cope with their internal struggles to seek help. However, psychotherapy is actually about the client wanting to explore, address and change the negative impact of things within themselves and the way they relate to others. Such as self-worth, loneliness, lack of confidence, fear, love, relationships, work stress, addictions, self-esteem and other things that maybe difficult to talk to friends, colleagues or family about. This often prevents one from asking for help.
By being willing to face, address and overcome these difficulties and by building an authentic therapeutic alliance/relationship. To grow through life’s problems and manage life with a new perspective, with understanding and without judgement in a way that perhaps was never before deemed possible, is in itself a priceless gift. To see clients work through, process, change, overcome and flourish in a ways they choose for themselves, is a human gift that someone can gift themselves. Healthy human interactions have an immense impact on the neurobiology of the brain based on early childhood attachments and has a profound impact in how things are managed in adult life.
Therapy is much more than just talking, it is about changing the very core internal conflicts, which reduce the quality of a person’s human experience. It is possible to make sense of and overcome the most difficult life events by managing memories and emotions in a different way. As well as changing maladaptive coping mechanisms that are no longer working, to enhance all relationships. We all have something that we can grow through and learn from and the realisation of how we may minimise something that has directed the entire course of our life and our relationships. This understanding can be incredibly freeing and the journey does not need to be travelled alone.
