Therapy is intensely private and personal. Especially at the beginning, when the relationship with a therapist feels uncertain, we may feel afraid of what we might learn, and not knowing what to expect, we may find reasons to leave therapy.
If more people shared the ways therapy changed their lives, others might be more inclined to look to therapy for help in their own lives too. More people would see it as a first choice rather than a last resort. Or, those already using therapy but finding it ineffective might seek out different therapists, or different therapies.
For some, therapy is sought as naturally as the counsel of any other professional. However, for many people, therapy is unavailable or is shoved out of mind. For others, it is tried but given up before the course is run. And for still others, their inner wisdom is prompting them to leave a therapist.
Advocating Therapy's Benefits
Personal problems—the ones with emotional knots—tend to not just go away, however much we wish they would. Instead, they tend to resist our vigorous denial, physical exercise, prayer, and intellectual stratagems. That’s where therapy comes in—to give hope, for starters, and in time, to give strength. Although casual recommendations to “consult a therapist” are fairly common today, the many specific benefits of therapy remain, overall, a well-kept secret.
Due to the private nature of therapy, we rarely know the ways in which lives have been changed by it. Because my own life has been made anew as a result of therapy—as have the lives of so many others—this site is dedicated to advocating the benefits of therapy and the promise it holds to alleviate pain, restore and maintain emotional balance, and enhance joy in living. I hope it will help others to summon the courage to enter treatment with a good therapist and then to stay until the work is done.
This site is NOT a substitute for qualified treatment.
I am NOT a therapist.
I write only of my personal experience in therapy
and to share the comments of others.