Therapy
Overcoming life’s challenges is essential.
The purpose of therapy is to transform one’s mind from one of distress to one of strength and clarity. This transformational process progresses through a step-by-step plan in adapting a client’s relationship with their mind.
The first step involves reviewing and reflecting on one’s past. This investigation process includes reviewing attachment styles, exploring the psycho-social influence of culture on one’s upbringing, and discussing influential or past traumatic events.
The next step in the therapeutic process involves examining how past experiences shape the client’s perception of their present struggle.
Through evidence-based practice of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), current stressors and struggles are reframed and reinterpreted from new alternative vantage points. Using these new perspectives, therapeutic counseling then transitions to developing practical cognitive skills and committed action to address the client’s primary area of concern.
Everyone needs mental training.
The step-by-step training of the mind is like training a cute puppy. An untrained mind can overreact to stress and anxiety, worrying about real and perceived threats, like a puppy overreacts to a passing postal worker, barking relentlessly to chase away a perceived danger.
Likewise, an untrained mind may exaggerate threats or stir up conflict when staying calm is often the best course of action.
Through therapy, clients can develop cognitive skills to train their minds to navigate personal struggles and stressors more effectively.
When the cute puppy is not distressed, it can be happy, playful, and a bundle of joy. Similarly, through therapeutic counseling, a client can learn to train their mind to become more patient, joyful, and peaceful.
Therapy is not forever.
Therapeutic counseling services are NOT intended to be a life-long service. I typically see clients once a week for the first 10 to 12 weeks.
After a client has made notable progress in reducing their mental distress, we meet bi-monthly (twice a month) to reevaluate what’s working and what is not. Follow-up sessions focus on refining cognitive strategies to make them sustainable and conducive to stable mental health.
Typically, after six months, most clients observe recognizable changes in their ability to manage their mental distress. Clients then transition to a monthly session, or we meet on an as-needed basis.
Are you ready for some training?
Life is hard enough as it is, and attempting to deal with the challenges can be overwhelming.
Therapy provides a means of receiving professional guidance and training to help you learn strategies for facing those challenges – positively and with confidence.
Let’s work together to help you learn a better way of responding to the issues you face.
I offer online therapeutic counseling services to clients based in New York. For more information on how I can assist, please don’t hesitate to contact me.