How does therapy help?

Depending on your present situation and your reasons for seeking help, there are many benefits to therapy. If you are seeking treatment for emotional difficulties or panic attacks, therapy can help you better manage your symptoms, outbreaks, and triggers. It can also offer you increased coping skills and open your eyes to new ways of dealing with situations that you may not have been aware of before. Therapy can rewire your mind to focus on empowering beliefs, offer problem-solving skills, provide support, and help you work through life changes, allowing you to see your circumstances as a personal growth opportunity instead of a burden or obstacle, while helping you learn the resilience needed to cope with challenges.

Some specific skills therapy can provide are:

  • Emotional management, including, but not limited to anger, jealousy, grief, and anxiety.
  • Coping mechanisms and beliefs to allow you to change how you handle situations which typically cause you anxiety, fear, or avoidance.
  • Stress-management techniques to apply to deal with stress within your everyday life.
  • Skills and techniques to help you better navigate relationships, or to work through relationship troubles.
  • Problem-solving skills and awakened confidence for you to use when you encounter issues which may have caused you to shy away or back down, such as social situations or public speaking.
  • Improving self-love, self-confidence, and body image.
  • Improving communication, listening, and the ability to speak up for yourself.
  • Understanding your own skills, strengths, and positive attributes and learning to quiet your inner negative critic, replacing it with an inner cheerleader.
  • Finding a resolution to the issues that originally led you to therapy, such as having panic attacks, or being unable to sleep.

While the decision to participate in therapy is an individual choice, it is helpful for everyone around you, too. Not only will it help you manage daily stress or transitional periods of your life, but it can give you back the positive outlook and confidence that you need to live a fulfilling life.

What to expect on your call, intake and session?

Our interactions will look something like this…

1. Intake – Assess your circumstances

The first 30-60 minute free consultation meeting is to address questions you may have, assess your current circumstances, your challenges, and your goals. If you want to proceed with therapy, we would then schedule an intake session. This is where we address specific areas that are unique to you, such as your childhood, get more details about your issue, and visualize what your life would look like without the problem you are facing for the recording. This is also where we look at your medical history and health information, and to make sure we are a good fit to work together. From there, I will be able to better determine how many sessions may be required, which can vary by individual and be changed as needed.

2. The Transformational Session – finding, understanding, and changing the pattern

Our second session will be where we do the real work. I’ll guide you, through visualization, into a light state of completely safe hypnosis.  This is a very natural state that anyone can go into, and happens each day to many of us when we’re daydreaming, or watching a relaxing movie and ‘zoning out’.  Most people describe this as feeling relaxed but alert, and you are in complete control the entire time and able to respond normally.  I will ask you questions, to which you’ll be able to respond, about events in your life, family, and childhood.

In order for the therapy to be successful, it is important that you are willing to be collaborative and to talk about difficult events from your past, and the feelings around them. I promise to be supportive, empathetic, and compassionate while we navigate these.  After we discuss them and the thoughts and beliefs that they created, I will use some therapeutic tools to help you start interrupting the beliefs and breaking down the well-traveled highways (neural pathways) of unhelpful thought in your mind.

The last part of the session is where we give the new thoughts, visualizations, and beliefs that were discussed in the consultation to your mind so they can start to take hold.  The personalized recording will contain all of these new, positive beliefs, and will be made and sent to you after the session.

The success of your session will largely rely on your willingness to listen to your recording every day for at least 21 days, then regularly thereafter.  I will check in with you the day after, then we can schedule a brief 15-30 min follow-up at 7-10 days, and again at 21-30 days to discuss progress and celebrate changes you’ve experienced.  Ongoing support will be provided if needed. You can expect the following from me:

  • You can expect to be treated with compassion, empathy, respect, and understanding.
  • You can expect to be presented with someone who is available to listen to you and listen to your interpretation of what you are currently experiencing.
  • You can expect to receive knowledgeable and scientifically backed techniques and information to assist you in overcoming your struggles.
  • You can expect to be in a safe, supportive, and confidential space.
  • You can expect to receive real strategies and techniques you can use to enact positive changes in your life.

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I look forward to getting to know you and helping you regain freedom, confidence, and happiness in your life!

 

Is therapy confidential?

All therapy sessions are confidential and anything you discuss with me will remain between the two of us, unless you request otherwise. This is as per protection rules by law, which all therapists legally need to follow, and no information from the session can be disclosed without prior written consent from you.

There are exceptions to this law however, and the therapist can disclose information from the session to legal authorities or appointed persons if any of the following are true:

  • The therapist suspects abuse to a child, dependent adult, or an elder, or are made aware of domestic abuse. These situations all require the therapist to notify law authorities immediately.
  • If the therapist suspects an individual has caused, or is threatening to cause severe bodily harm to another person, therapists are required to report it to the police.
  • If an individual intends to harm themself, expressing to the therapist, for example, plans for suicide. While the therapist will attempt to work through this in the therapy session, if it appears to be unresolved or the client does not cooperate, additional action may need to be taken to ensure the safety of the client.
  • If records from the session are subpoenaed by a court of law.