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Psycho-Therapy and Counseling FAQ 1:
What can counseling do for me?

This is an opportunity for you to explore a range of personal issues. These might include understanding yourself, your personality and your motivations better. Or you might want to deal with your unhappiness or lack of satisfaction with your life. We can work with the specific troubling areas in your life, usually directly or indirectly affecting your relationships. Many clients move past their initial anxiety toward therapy as they discover within the first few sessions that therapy can be a place to discuss issues not previously explored in a safe environment. This can result in leaving therapy feeling a great deal better than before. Therapy is often upbeat as we explore how your strengths can become more visible to you and others in your life.

Uncomfortable feelings may arise during the course of your therapy. This is an opportunity to have a professional beside you as you step through your defenses and life hindrances. Although I will encourage you to explore deeply held fears and hopes, you will decide in each session how far you are interested in delving into challenging issues and how much you would like to self-disclose. Having a safe environment is of primary importance! Although I am a mandated reporter and must break confidentiality under certain circumstances by law, all other information you share is confidential.

In therapy I help clients to be more aware of what they contribute to their relationships. Old habits and patterns may not produce the results you desire. We can work with communications, assertiveness and conflict resolution skills that are useful with close relationships as well as with coworkers. Since it is recognized that the family unit affects an individual's behavior and adjustments to life, analysis to understand your family's past or present interactions and patterns of behavior may enhance your therapeutic work.

Many people are high functioning on a day-to-day basis, but have a low level of depression or anxiety that seems to cloud their happiness. These feelings are very common in Silicon Valley, where life often moves from one crisis to another and people move often. If you are lonely or dissatisfied with the way things are going in your life, you may want to explore the benefits of therapy.
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