For people that are hesitant to try therapy, what do you wish you could tell them?

There could be a variety of reasons why you might be hesitant to start therapy. You might be afraid to feel the emotions that will come up. You might not want to re experience traumatic events in your life or you may just feel shame over the things that you know you need to talk about. But what I want you to know is that there is so much power in bringing those things to light. And my whole job is to walk alongside of you in the process of feeling painful feelings or re experiencing traumatic events, and I can equip you with the tools that you'll need to go through those things. I know it's cliche but the only way through is through, and with hard things in life really there's no easy solution. So, I just, I think that people that go out and seek therapy are so brave, and I know how it feels to sit across from somebody and to share intimate things because I've done it before so I can definitely relate to being in that position. But I would say just find a therapist that you feel comfortable with, and that you feel confident in and that you feel safe with, and that alone is a really great step in the right direction.

Hello. So you're considering therapy, but you're not sure exactly how or if to move forward. I thought I would offer you a little bit of information. The first thing I would do as I would tell you that you don't have to be sick. Many people come to therapy in order to grow or to overcome some barrier in an area of life, despite being actually very well functioning in most other areas. The other thing I would tell you is it doesn't have to take an extremely long time, and it doesn't have to be extremely costly. My approach to therapy involves empowering people, in order to access the resources, both inside of themselves and to find practices and things that are available to them in their lives that they can continue to thrive, well beyond the time that I meet with them. And so the actual number of sessions that people have, oftentimes is not very large, and the cost is not very great. The third thing I would tell you is, it doesn't have to be a cookie cutter approach that's applied to you, if you work with somebody who has a lot of experience and is skilled, they can work with you to figure out exactly what it is that you want to accomplish, and then partner with you and coming up with a plan for bringing that into fruition. And if it isn't working out for you, that person should be able to make adjustments based upon your experience, and any feedback that you would give. So there's a lot more that I can, you know, help you kind of evaluate and consider if you're thinking about therapy or if you're thinking about therapy with me, but I wanted to at least give you those little bit of information to just get started and to invite you that if you would be interested, perhaps we could have a consultation, maybe a free online consultation, and I can answer any questions that you have and maybe speak with you a little bit more specifically about what it is that you want to accomplish and how I might be able to help you do that, thanks a lot for checking out my video and I look forward to hopefully talking to you soon.