Is Therapy For Me?

People seek therapy for many different reasons.
These are some of the ways people describe why they seek therapy.
Your reasons may seem similar or different.
But whatever your reasons are, we are here to help you with them.

Some people seek therapy because…

  • of ways they feel:
    I’m depressed … anxious … angry … fearful … I feel confused … worried … hopeless … overwhelmed.
  • of how they feel about themselves:
    I feel insecure … inferior to others … shy …. lonely … I feel angry at myself … bad about myself … I’m disappointed in my life.
  • of disturbing symptoms:
    I have panic attacks … nightmares … insomnia … rages … crying spells … compulsions … obsessions … mood swings.
  • of problems in their relationships:
    I’m having trouble with my romantic partner … with my spouse … with my children … parents … co-workers … with my friends … My romantic relationships never last … No one understands me … I can’t seem to get along with anybody at all.
  • they can’t stop behaving in ways that they know are not good for them:
    I’m struggling with my alcohol use … with drug abuse … with trying to control my eating … with unsafe sex … with abuse from my spouse (or partner).
  • they are burdened by pain from the past:
    I grew up in a dysfunctional family … I lost a parent to an early death … My parents divorced … I was always scapegoated by my peers … by my family … I was emotionally abused … I suffered physical abuse … sexual abuse.
  • of issues related to their identity:
    I’m having trouble with my sexual identity … with my religious identity … with my ethnic identity … with my spirituality.
  • of issues related to their stage of life:
    I’m facing life as a young adult on my own for the first time … as a single parent … as a divorced person … as a parent with an “empty nest” … as an aging person … as a caretaker of elderly parents … as someone facing retirement.
  • they’re having trouble coping with hard times:
    I’m out of work … I’ve been diagnosed with a serious illness … Someone I love has died … I’m getting a divorce … I’m failing my classes.
  • of problems in their creative pursuits:
    I’m blocked in my writing …
    I have stage fright …
    I can’t get it together to audition …
    I can’t seem to be able to network.
  • of an overall dissatisfaction with their lives:
    I’m unhappy … adrift … stuck … going nowhere … unfulfilled … I keep repeating the same mistakes … I’m hurting, but I don’t know exactly why.

And some people go into therapy not because they are troubled,

  • but because they want to learn more about themselves,
  • to explore as-yet unexplored regions of their minds, and
  • because they understand that therapy can be an exciting way to enhance their lives.
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