What are the benefits of therapy?
Learn how therapy can help you heal, grow, and move forward.
Not only can therapy help, it can help transform your life
Getting started with therapy can feel like a big step, but your work and willingness to invest in your mental health can pay off in life-changing ways. When you start seeing a therapist, you’re dedicating time to work on yourself, improve your life, and even change the way you see your world.
To help you decide if therapy is for you, it’s important to understand how counseling can actually help you. In recent years, 86% of people who saw a therapist during the COVID pandemic said that it helped them cope with what they were going through.
Therapy can help you work through trauma, loss, relationship issues, self-esteem, anxiety, and more. You can improve your life and create lasting change that can help you be happier, more productive, and better prepared in all types of situations.
Depending on what you’re coming to therapy for, you’ll learn skills, how to deal with challenging situations, effective methods to manage relationships, ways to regulate your emotions, and more. With these skills, you can move forward with your life in ways that keep you moving in the right direction.
How can therapy create change?
Therapy can help you work through trauma, loss, relationship issues, self-esteem, anxiety, and more. You can improve your life and create lasting change that can help you be happier, more productive, and better prepared in all types of situations.
Research has shown that close to 80% of people who start seeing a therapist see positive benefits after about six months, and about 30% of adults saw a therapist in the past few years. Depending on what you’re coming to therapy for, you’ll learn skills, how to deal with challenging situations, effective methods to manage relationships, ways to regulate your emotions, and more.
Read on to learn how seeing a therapist can benefit you.
Improved communication and support: Working with a therapist can help you develop healthy, productive, positive communication skills in all types of settings. Improving your communication skills can help you in nearly all aspects of your personal and professional life. Depending on your needs, you can become better with confrontation, learn how to control your emotions, manage social anxiety, and more. This confidence in how you communicate can transform how you feel in many different contexts of your life.
While many of us have trusted friends or family members, it's important to feel supported when you're going through a difficult period of your life. If you don't have a strong support system or don't know where to go for help, creating a trusted relationship with a therapist can really help. With the support of someone who you see regularly and share your life with, you're able to focus on creating change and developing skills that help you become the person you want to be.
Resolve conflicts: Conflict can appear at home, work, and in our relationships. If conflict is challenging for you to deal with, therapy can help tremendously. Working with a therapist can help you develop healthy relationships, set boundaries, communicate your needs, and address the things that you need from your friendships. Therapists can help you proactively improve how you approach and resolve conflict and apply these skills to the situations that matter most to you.
Treat conditions and enjoy better quality of life: A therapist can help you treat mental health conditions, such as depression, anxiety, fear, PTSD, and more. If you know that you have a mental health condition that has been negatively affecting your life, working with a therapist can help you put yourself first to help you lower, manage, and even eliminate your symptoms. Mental health conditions can create challenges in all parts of your life, so the skills you learn in therapy can transform the way you see the world.
At work and at home, feeling better about yourself can dramatically improve your performance and focus. While therapy is focused on your mental health, research has shown that improving your mental health can help you be more productive at work and even miss fewer days because of how you feel.
Change relationships with your spouse or family: Family relationships can be complicated. Many times, you need someone on the outside to help rebuild relationships and develop ways for your family to communicate with each other. A therapist can help families collectively learn how to work through trauma, addiction issues, chronic communication problems, and more. Many people choose to see a therapist as a family and see therapists separately as individuals. In any combination, a therapist can help you set healthy, productive boundaries and reopen lines of communication that may have been shut.
Develop practical skills: Sometimes, it feels simpler to avoid things that cause us pain, stress, or contentious situations. But when you develop coping skills that apply to your everyday life, you can learn how to work through some of the most significant things that are causing you stress or pain. You'll learn how to positively and productively work through what you're going through and continue growing as you make progress. Skill work can be one of the most positive, practical things that will continue to improve your life, long after your therapy sessions are over.
Change the way you think: Negative thoughts are a powerful thing. They can create massive interruptions in your life. When you can change these negative patterns of thought, you can retrain your brain to think about and react to situations differently. This can dramatically change your life by reframing how you approach what you experience at home, at work, and in your conversations. Changing the way you think can help change the way you act and how you feel about yourself and others.
If you have negative behaviors that have turned into habits or something bigger, they can prevent you from living the life you want. They might even become part of who you are now, and that might not be someone you want to be. You might struggle with addiction, anger, relationships, or self-image, and therapy can help you change those patterns that are continuing to get in the way of the life you want.
Here are some common reasons why people start seeing a therapist:
- A desire to improve or change your life
- Healing from a traumatic event
- Help with managing anxiety, depressions, or confidence
- Working through a significant life transition
- Chronic negative thoughts or self-esteem issues
- Help with managing relationships
- Improving communication with a spouse, significant other, or family member
- Learning how to manage anger issues
- Problems concentrating at home, work, or school
- Challenging family issues or relationships
- Wanting to gain skills to deal with challenging situations, people, or jobs
- Feeling depressed, hopeless, or helpless
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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Victor Frankl
Meet our therapists
As a therapist-owned practice, we care about helping you heal, grow, and thrive. All of our therapists take a client-focused approach to counseling and approach each session with a commitment to your progress and growth.
Availability
We’re always accepting new clients at our conveniently located offices in Denver, Greenwood Village, Lone Tree, and Arvada, and all of our therapists can meet with clients online.
We have a therapist for you
Because we have a large team of therapists with a wide range of specialties, we work with clients of all ages, backgrounds, and life experiences. You are welcome here. We can match you with a therapist who matches your goals, location, and schedule.
We can provide specific types of therapy
To support your mental health journey, our therapists are trained in some of the most effective forms of therapy available today, including EMDR, Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, CBT, DBT, and IFS.
Insurance information
We’re out of network with insurance and Tricare and are unable to take Medicaid or Medicare. Unlike many therapy practices, we don’t charge separate intake or administration fees or charge more for specialized therapy methods like EMDR.
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