“Why do I keep doing this thing that aggravates or hurts myself or others?”
Sometimes your behaviour seems to be hurting people you care about and people you love. It’s embarrassing to acknowledge it, and it’s even tougher to work to develop new habits to prevent it from happening in the future. In order to change our habits, we need to learn what they represent about our belief systems. Changing patterns of behaviour means looking at why you do the things that you do, what emotional responses drives these choices, and understanding that those motivations and the emotions we choose to act upon may have been appropriate in the past, but they’re not helping now.
“Why did I react the way I did that one time?”
When we find ourselves having overreacted, sometimes even violently, in a situation, it can be hard to trace back to why it happened. I have training and over a decade of experience in treatment for Post Traumatic Stress and Traumatic Regressions. These are not excuses we come up with. If you’ve reacted in a way that is uncharacteristic for you, it is the result of a wide variety of treatable syndromes or conditions. I can help you narrow down the one(s) that, if adjusted, are the most likely to have a beneficial outcome for any future similar situations. When you augment your capacity for empathy, you take fewer interactions to be “personal affronts” and understand that though the intention may seem personal, your assessment and reaction can be whatever you decide it should be.
“I’m not crazy, I am not traumatized: why should I even go to therapy?”
Therapy is not about controlling the uncontrollable; it’s about wanting to change something about your behaviour that you have noticed is getting in the way of feeling the best you can about yourself every day.
Therapy is not about “bad” versus “good” behaviour. Therapy is about “helpful” versus “unhelpful.” We all have small habits that are unhelpful. When those habits negatively affect your health, career, or personal relationships, you may want to reevaluate whether the reason may be your approach and not the approaches of those around you.
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