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Treatment Issues
No matter whether you are mad, sad, glad, scared, or bad, with psychotherapy you can work through your issues and enjoy a more fulfilling life experience. Each session is tailored specifically for your personal journey. Alcoholic? Addict? Get yourself cleaned up, then come on in and find out how psychotherapy can resolve the issues for which your addiction is a symptom, or perhaps, a medication. Anger From slightly irked to rage, functional anger protects you, neutralizes fear, and gives you courage. Dysfunctional anger leads to negative thinking, attitude, and behavior. Anxiety The emotion which handicaps a person more than any other, fear is what you experience when a saber-toothed tiger is actually chasing you; anxiety is when it feels as though a tiger is about to eat you, but when you look back, there's nobody there but you. Change "Huh? Wait . . . !" * Depression Helpless, hopeless, and worthless. A downward spiral. Differing parts of Self "I should and I don't want to." "I want to but I shouldn't." "Part of me likes it, part of me doesn't, and part of me doesn't care." (And on and on and . . .) Disease From physical wounds, surgery, and general uproar all the way to, "I am still here and I am not dead yet." Divorce Adjusting, readjusting, and moving on. A death of sorts. Existential issues "And the point is . . . ?" Your relationship with the Universe. Family Parents, partners, children, in-laws, siblings, cousins, lovers, close friends, and any one (possibly any thing) you love or hate. Grief and loss Stops you dead in your tracks and takes over your brain. Greed "Feed me. Now!" Guilt The emotion that comes from violating your own values. Health Body issues, fear, change, gratitude, confusion, and hope. Jealousy A combination of starvation and low self-esteem. Loneliness A (sometimes slippery) stepping-stone on the road to depression. Low self esteem A hard-to-break addiction either to beating yourself up or putting yourself down. Parenting So your parents weren't perfect. Oops, notice how hard it is not to react just like they did. Together let's find a way so your kids grow up in a more positive environment. Personal and professional transitions See above . . . and below. Personal growth You are not particularly mad, sad, overly glad, scared, or crazy? Not a problem. Psychotherapy can be a scheduled time for you to expand yourself into being and/or connected-to even more of who you already are. Both laughing and happiness are allowed. Placating A long-standing habit of saying, "Yes," when you mean, "No." Results of habitual placation include wearing an imaginary heavy backpack, full of anger rocks. Pre-marital Now (while you're still in love and in lust) is the time to learn negotiation, listening for understanding, basic communication skills, and how to grow yourself inside of a relationship. Relationships With anything, with everything, with anybody. Finding them, enjoying them, growing them and, if you so desire, ending them. Separation From fear of disconnection and abandonment to both the fear of and desire to reconnect. Shame Usually derived from shoulds and should-not's obtained from other people's values (see Guilt, above). Not only is the thing-I-did bad, but I am bad too. Somatic issues Becoming aware of the interchange between your psyche and your body. Social issues 1a From shyness and social phobia, to lack of intimacy. Living with a shaky sense of self. Social issues 1b "Frankly, I'm fine with how I am. I don't, however, understand why you aren't." Stress and distress See above . . . and below. Trauma From childhood abuses, neglect, misery, and bad luck, to adult accidents, crimes, deaths, and PTSD. Workplace and job issues Everything from basic communication (positive, neutral, and negative) to difficulty finding "right work" (in the Buddhist sense).
* a quote from my friend Bob L.
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