How Does Therapy Work?
In this safe and confidential environment, Nicole helps you look objectively at your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, while teaching you ways to deal with different situations. You will explore personal issues with someone who has unique listening skills, and is more neutral than those who are directly involved in your life. Nicole will provide you with feedback to support your emotional release and help guide you in finding your own solutions to personal problems. In addition to talk therapy, sometimes other modalities, such as drawing, writing, or guided imagery, are included in the therapy process, depending on the needs of each individual client. Keep in mind that your relationship with your therapist plays a crucial role in benefiting from treatment; therefore it’s important to find a therapist who you feel heard, understood, and accepted by.
Therapy works by helping you objectively look at thoughts, feelings, and behaviors which contribute to various problem situations. In consultation with your therapist you learn new or more effective ways of coping with the difficulties you face. Together, you and your therapist will identify treatment goals and will decide how you will know when you are making progress. Therapy is effective. Nine out of ten Americans surveyed by Consumer Reports said that psychotherapy had helped them. Scientific studies have also demonstrated the effectiveness of many specific treatment techniques.
