The Joy of Being a Psychotherapist
WHAT I LOVE ABOUT BEING A PSYCHOTHERAPIST
What I love about being a psychotherapist is watching my clients blossom like flowers opening up to the sun. It is sacred and so rewarding!
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Everybody has areas in their life where there is emotional pain, often with hidden feelings of guilt or shame. So much of what we believe about ourselves is rooted in trauma experienced individually or inherited through our families. Much of those beliefs are untrue, but we don't know that until we go through the journey and confront our own fears and sorrows. I've found that the healing process can be so freeing, with new purpose and meaning as a direct result of going through the journey.
A Therapeutic Revelation
NEW BEGINNINGS:
EMBRACING FORGIVENESS IN THERAPY
What I've experienced about therapy, personally and professionally, is that therapy is as much about owning one's own part in the past. Sometimes that is as simple as realizing that we were a child and had no other ways to cope at that time. Then we forgive ourselves and others. Forgiveness is the conscious deliberate process of releasing negative feelings of anger, disappointment, hurt, rage, and vengeance, regardless of whether they deserve our forgiveness. We deserve the inner peace and the release of harmful negative emotions that forgiveness brings so that we can become free to live life now.
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Forgiveness isn’t about excusing or condoning inappropriate behaviors, or denying the seriousness of the offenses, nor does it obligate you to reconcile with people who have harmed you or release them from legal responsibility. What forgiveness does is allow you to let go of your deeply held negative feelings so they are no longer harming us physically and mentally. When we recognize the pain that we have suffered without letting it continue to define us, we are no longer numbing that pain. When we numb our pain, we numb our joy. By forgiving ourselves and others we become empowered enabling ourselves to heal, to feel joy, and to move on more productively with our lives.
Your Journey, Our Expertise
WALKING THE PATH TO WHOLENESS
Psychotherapy to me is helping my clients go on their own Hero's or Shero's Journey, facing their abyss of the fear, moving through it, and finding the hidden treasure that has always been part of who they are. It has been my experience that we become empowered through our journeys and start to find ways to thrive once more. I’ve also noticed that we find gifts of our own resilience through this process that further empowers us in making the challenges that allow our souls to sing.
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We are here to help others out of their emotional turmoil, to embrace their own magnificence, and to experience joy once more. We have walked this path to wholeness and can help you on your journey too.