Treatment Information
How Therapy Can Help
Therapy can provide a supportive, safe, and challenging environment where you can develop tools for change. By exploring feelings, thoughts, or long-standing patterns, you can gain a greater understanding
of how to relieve distress or change problem behaviors. A variety of approaches can be used,
ranging from here-and-now, cognitive-behavioral techniques, to more in-depth exploration of past family patterns and how they relate to current problems. An excellent overview of the benefits of
psychotherapy is available from the American Psychological Association.
While not a substitute for communicating with family and friends, therapy provides a unique opportunity for exploring concerns in greater depth
and for receiving useful, direct feedback. Whether you need a brief, supportive approach to address a recent life stressor, or want to resolve a long-standing conflict, therapy can
help.
Why Seek Therapy?
You may want to consider therapy if you would like to:
- Reduce or eliminate symptoms, such as anxiety, depression or feelings of hopelessness
- Decrease unwanted, self-defeating behaviors
- Reduce conflicts in marital, family, parent-child, or work relationships
- Improve coping strategies and problem-solving skills
- Increase your ability to manage stressful situations
- Improve social and communications skills, and your comfort interacting in work and social situations
- Enhance marital and family relationships
- Improve parenting skills
- Rebuild a sense of self after struggling with grief, loss, or a chronic illness
- Increase self-esteem, self-confidence and self-understanding
- Resolve long-standing conflicts that have created distress or harmful behavior patterns