Holistic Mental Health Therapy Near Me
Starting therapy is never easy. The experience of pouring your heart out to a perfect stranger is weird and uncomfortable. Often, it means dredging up old memories and emotions that haven't been touched for years.
When you first begin therapy, it's normal to feel worse before you feel better. Experiencing an outpouring of anxiety, sadness, anger, or grief in the time you spend outside your therapist's office does not mean that therapy isn't working. In fact, it is often an important sign of progress.
As Amanda E. White, LPC said, "90% of the change that occurs in therapy happens outside the therapy office." Noticing uncomfortable emotions and sensations is an outward sign of this change:
Firstly, it means that you are experiencing your emotions, rather than ignoring them (which is often half the battle when it comes to therapy).
Secondly, it means that you are getting to the root of your uncomfortable feelings and harmful behaviors.
Delving deeply into the experiences that have shaped us, for worse or for better, can bring up emotions that we didn't even know existed. But without sitting with and processing these emotions, we cannot step into a future where these parts of our past no longer affect our present reality.
At Life by Design Therapy, we know change is possible for you. Get in touch with us today to learn how our holistic and somatic therapy can help you heal, in and out of the therapy office.
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