Five Reasons for Considering Psychological Therapy (Psychotherapy)
- Getting out of the habit of being ourselves
Much of what we experience in life reflects the way our personality functions, both in dealing with people as well as all the everyday challenges and demands that come our way.
Deciding to respond to life differently – contrary to the way our personality is used to functioning, is easier said than done. To get out of the habit of being our usual selves is no small thing. Seeking help from someone who knows what is involved and can assist may prove vitally important.
- Because of our basic need to be understood
To be known and understood by another person is a rare experience. Just as rare is finding someone prepared to listen to us without judgement, without making premature assumptions about us, or applying solutions before having heard us fully.
What if such an experience were available to us? What difference might it make? Potentially, a great deal of difference; even better if we can then go on to rise above our difficulties, be supported to put them into perspective, and permit new possibilities to arise. Psychological therapy offers this possibility.
- Because we are often our own worst enemy
None of us cope well with feeling trapped or powerless, yet often it is we who ‘paint ourselves’ into corners with our own thinking and with our own stubborn insistence on things staying the same.
The fact is the whole of life is about change – things not staying the same. The challenge for us is to embrace change, but to do this in a way that doesn’t crush or overwhelm us. Being supported to face and manage change and find a new way forward may be crucial to our wellbeing.
- Our need to find the courage to change
Sometimes it takes someone else to draw out our courage, courage that is essential for us to honestly disclose who we are and the truth of our difficulties, courage to confront ourselves, courage to deal with the obstacles that stand in the way of our psychological wellbeing, and courage to permit new possibilities to make themselves known and available to us. Courage can lead to resolve and resolve pointed in the right direction can be life changing.
- Our need of intelligent compassion
Psychological therapy (or psychotherapy) isn’t about being given a whole lot of advice, it is about two people (client and therapist) agreeing to ‘put their heads together’ to obstinately attempt (for the client) to find a new way forward and a way to recover the wholeness of being fully human. Intelligent compassion is what can be expected from both the therapist in this partnership and the therapy relationship.
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