Therapy is more than simply sitting on a couch and talking about your problems.
While some people might not fully understand the true importance of therapy, others have experienced life changes due to successful therapy and believe in its effectiveness. At our practice we believe there’s no shame in talking about painful emotions, especially if you’ve suffered from recent trauma. Our therapists are multi-culturally competent and specialize in providing therapy for people of color, immigrants and LGBTQ+. We also provide couples therapy in New York and therapy for parents of autistic children.
Instead of short term solutions, here are some reasons to give therapy a try:
Its effects are long-lasting:
One most prominent advantage of therapy is that it empowers you to work on your current emotional state and develops tools that will help you deal with it in the future. The positive gains continue and grow over time, enabling you to take care of your thoughts and feelings even after therapy stops. We don’t want you to be dependent on your therapist forever!
Therapy helps treat physical symptoms too:
Unresolved mental health issues can also trigger physical symptoms like nausea, loss of appetite, sleep disturbances, loss of energy and fatigue among others. Going to therapy can help relieve physical ailments by allowing you to confront the psychological roots of these symptoms. If you bottle up your emotions and keep engaging in unhealthy behaviors, your body will start showing signs of it.
Repressed emotions might come back and haunt you:
The most significant drawback of feelings going unexpressed is that they can pile up and explode later. Many people have a tendency to avoid talking about hard feelings and repress them for as long as they can. This avoidance doesn’t make the feelings go away. Later, during tight circumstances, these emotions surface and explode unexpectedly causing harm to your relationships or your physical health. Going to therapy allows you to talk about your feelings to a neutral and unjudging confidential professional, providing you with an outlet to vent it out.
It helps you learn more about yourself:
The struggle is not only to know what goes around the world but also to learn what goes inside us. Humans are likely to be more aware of their surroundings than themselves. This is where therapy can come into the picture to help increase awareness of our inner nooks and crannies. It allows you to focus on yourself, what makes you who you are and eventually helps you to become a better person by helping you eliminate destructive and unhelpful emotions, thoughts and behavior.
Are you ready to take the next step?
Find your ‘someone to talk to’ at Integrative Therapy Center.
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