Though it’s never easy to talk about one’s innermost feelings, speaking with a therapist in a confidential relationship can result in lasting change.  Experience shows that talk therapies reduce anxiety and raise mood, lead to self-awareness and insight, and fundamentally alter relationships.

Perhaps your relationships with partners, parents, children, or co-workers are difficult.  Often, relationships fail because of unrealistic expectations and a lack of self-awareness.  

Perhaps you’re anxious or moody.  Strong feelings can be hard to handle, problems may feel overwhelming.  Some people stuff their feelings inside and never let them out.  Others explode.

Perhaps you’re careless about responsibilities or guilt plays havoc with your self-esteem.   To avoid these and other uncomfortable feelings, including uncomfortable sexual feelings, maybe you shop, or drink, or overeat, or barely eat at all. 

You have your own unique combination of regrets, sorrows, strengths, and weaknesses.  Your past experience, temperament, and values affect the way you look at your relationships, value your achievements, assess your failures. 

Working with a therapist - and it is work - feels engaging and productive if you you can speak openly.  You might want someone who takes a contemporary, collaborative approach to helping you navigate obstacles that stand in your way.  You might also want this person to have a sense of humor and a different perspective.      

Change is possible.  Being heard is possible.