Who is therapy even for?

Have you ever felt confused about who should go to therapy?

I believe that therapy is for everyone. Everyone. You don't have to be tremendously hurt by life to attend therapy; although, if you have been, then therapy is for certain a safe and welcoming place for you where your wounds will be held gently with responsiveness. I think of therapy as a place to:

RECLAIM -

A reclamation of what has been lost, split off, or injured along the way. Even in homes where people experienced a loving mom or dad, there were often relational misses that made unconscious imprints on our hearts and how we attach, that show up in our present relationships- like not getting your needs met, not voicing yourself, taking care of everyone else at the expense of what you need, not having a voice because everyone around you is so sensitive or prone to angry outbursts, critical, or withdrawing from relationship with silence. The list can go on. In therapy, we find, care for, and reclaim with loving attention, the true self that can hold boundaries, voice needs, and live authentically, from the heart.

RESTORE-

Therapy, in it's accurate definition, means-to heal. Sometimes restoration means grieving, or learning how to show up and make yourself known in a relationship. If you've ever been to therapy, you know it takes bravery to trust someone with your life story. But when we do this with a trusted and safe therapist, the restoration then leads us to do the same in other relationships. Restoration may mean discovering that you are worthy of being seen, responded to, and cared for; it means feeling your feelings and valuing yourself enough to actually feel! (That is hard work!) Restoration is becoming- all that you were originally designed to be.

SUSTAIN-

This is the fun! Through that work of reclaiming and restoring, then you have a Self who can show up in the world whole, conscious, connected, and alive! Therapy fills you up so that you can go out and onward knowing who you are, and who you are not; strong, soft, vulnerable, boundaried, and ready to show up honestly in the world.