Counseling (sometimes called psychotherapy) is work towards a more integrated mind and body. Past or ongoing traumas, wounds, and injustices (big or small) shape the way we understand and engage with ourselves and the world.
Whether you’re experiencing depression or acute stress, it is very helpful to identify the patterns, scripts, and systems that are affecting your feelings, beliefs, and behaviors. The mere identification of these patterns can lead to a reduction in symptoms. And a deeper understanding of the hows and whys is the entryway to significant changes.
Decades of research draw unequivocal conclusions: counseling results in fewer relapses of common conditions such as moderate depression and anxiety, and the positive effects of a good counseling relationship extend long after therapy has ended.