• Introduction to Counseling and Psychotherapy
• Psychotherapy, what do I work on?
A key element in psychotherapy is helping people bring about change in their lives. These changes may involve exploring different belief systems, thinking differently, feeling differently, and/or making different choices. Therapy is intended to be a process where one moves forward in their own individual development, enhancing their relationships with “self” and others. Along this journey the therapists role is to help a person discover, look at, and often – for the first time - face challenges involved in making healthy life choices.
The therapeutic process is influenced by the nature and difficulty one is experiencing. It is also influenced by one's age or stage of development particularly with therapy involving children being much different than that with adolescents and adults. It can be influenced by the special and unique needs of men and woman, boys and girls.
Although the process in therapy will be influenced by the unique needs of the individual child, adolescent, or adult it must always be managed in a professional manner with someone skillfully using well-accepted principles to guide this process of change. At the Healing Place a Systemic Transformational Change Process is utilized. Advanced training and experience help guide the clinician in working with children, adolescents, and adults in addressing their individual challenges and needs, in an effort to keep the process moving forward toward a positively direction goals or destination.