The benefits of therapy can be conceptualized in a variety of ways, but essentially we are aiming to more or less rewire ourselves emotionally, cognitively, interpersonally, neurologically, etc. Sometimes this work is slow and incremental, other times growth can occur more rapidly. Everyone’s process is different.

Here are some reasons people to therapy. They come to:

• Improve mood and general sense of wellbeing
• Diminish negative impact of grief and trauma
• Become more attuned to and of and comfortable with emotions
• Gain copings skills for anxiety and distressing emotions, thoughts, experiences, etc.
• Strengthen awareness of- and empathy toward- self and other
• Cultivate self-confidence, and hope about the future
• Develop better communication skills
• Sustain healthier and more satisfying relationships
• Learn new, more flexible and adaptive ways to regard “dysfunctional behavior”
• Improve performance and effectiveness in completing tasks and achieving goals
• Find concrete, practical solutions to acute and/or longstanding problems
• Cultivate a positive, personally empowering narrative, or story, about life
• Experience more harmony and peace
• Have a greater sense of purpose, meaning and fulfillment
• Feel more spiritually satisfied
• Improve physical health