How Can Counselling or Psychotherapy Benefit Me?
How you benefit will largely depend upon what you initially bring. Indeed, this is something we discuss during our first session.
It is now understood that due to ‘neuroplasticity’, (our brain’s capacity to change), feeling better involves a re-wiring of your brain, a creation of new neuronal pathways.
Another way I view change is the widening of your ‘Window of Tolerance,’ something which deepens access to your parasympathetic nervous system (your body’s superhighway to feeling calm, at peace.)
I like to be reminded here of the wisdom traditions which maintain that things never stay the same. Change is always possible and is indeed, inevitable. Integrative Relational Psychotherapy with its dynamic possibilities, is one such change agent.
Examples of how such change may look for you are:
- Feeling much calmer, less ‘triggered,’ by previous situations, people etc.
- Viewing yourself and others with greater kindness (compassion)
- Feeling more hopeful about yourself and life, with a decrease in apathy, despondency etc.
- Feeling more present, grounded, in touch with your body, and less numb to life.
- Feeling energised, able to structure and make good choices for your life
- Feeling a greater sense of physical wellbeing, sleeping better, having a better relationship with your bodily symptoms.
- Having deeper insights or understanding about yourself, others in your life
- Having new perspectives which feel helpful
- Able to learn new skills, for relationships, work or approaches to life.
- Having a clear sense of responsibility for your life and what this means
- Finding deeper meanings to things which previously had just felt painful
- Understanding the things you can and cannot control and having an acceptance around these.
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