3 Ways Therapy Can Help You Get Unstuck and Why
Therapy is a powerful tool that can help create a happier and healthy life. This blog explains 3 ways therapy can be beneficial when one feels stuck.
You may be wondering how therapy can help you to heal and move into a life that would feel better, easier, and healthier. While it takes work, therapy really can help you to get unstuck.
It has been studied and found that people often put up with signs and symptoms of mental health issue for approximately 11 years before seeking therapeutic help! That is A LOT of time that could have been spent getting healing and being healthier.
Here are three ways that therapy can help you to get unstuck:
1) Therapy can help you to get all of the chatter inside your head out into the open in a safe space, and this can help you to process things clearer than you are able to when you are in the problem.
Why? Therapists offer empathy and active listening, which is something so rare in our society today. When we are actively attended to and heard, met with compassion and support, amazing things can happen that influence our internal meaning making.
In fact, it has been shown that more than 80% of the healing process is due to this unconditional positive regard and connected human relationship between the client and therapist. Best of all, the therapist is ethically bound to keep everything in confidence so that what is said in the therapy room stays in the therapy room.
2) A therapist can offer you the tools and skills that they have learned to help you resolve your issues more quickly than you can do on your own.
Why? Your therapist has years of experience dealing with mental and emotional health issues as well as years of training to be able to provide you with solid counsel. It’s like taking a car to a mechanic who can identify what a “ching, clunk, ching” sound is just by your sound effect description to them. Therapists know what to listen for to help identify what might be underlying your pain or struggle so that precious time can be saved as they help you to hone in on what they are hearing you need.
3) Therapists can see blind spots that you don’t even know you have, and this can help you to be able to look at things from different vantage points and be able to get movement toward healing and problem solving much faster than if these blocks had not been revealed.
Why? We each have our own personal worldview that has been cultivated over years of life experiences and influences. It leads us to make assumptions as to what we are seeing, hearing, and experiencing as our brains try to categorize information it already believes it understands. An outsider who is trained to listen for ways our thinking may be experiencing distortions can help to bring you a lot of movement that you may not have been able to glean and experience on your own.
You don’t have to go it alone. Therapy is a powerful tool in your self-care and healthy self-management toolbox, but for it to work, you have to actually do it and use it.
If we can be of help as you go about seeking to get the therapy you need, please let us know, and we can get you started: 541-275-0412