Time is the most precious resource that any of us have in our lives. Money may seem more important, but the wealthiest people will tell you that time is the great equalizer. Each day, we all have the same amount of time.

Psychotherapy can heal the parts of you that didn’t feel understood or worthy of being understood. Healing is painful because it will shed light on parts of your experience that are currently outside of your awareness. We naturally avoid dynamics that are painful and much of what is painful for us is outside of our conscious awareness. As you bring attention to these feelings, they will be painful to discuss at first. Experiencing feelings as feelings that peak and pass, rather than truths that haunt you, heals your pain and alleviates your suffering.

When we talk about how you feel, we’ll be able to discriminate between the parts of the situation that are problems for us to solve and the parts of the situation that are based on a painful memory or a painful interpretation of what is possibly happening.

As you surrender to the process of being cared for, your sense of self-worth and safety will increase. You’ll become less afraid and more curious about your internal world. Thinking and talking about your internal experience becomes fun, rather than burdensome. Like any other trusting relationship, as you begin to trust the psychotherapy process, to feel efficacious and curious about your experience, psychotherapy can become really productive. At that point, rather than urgently needing psychotherapy to reduce your suffering, the psychotherapy relationship becomes a long conversation that you can choose to enjoy.

Psychotherapy is helpful because it strives to not only teach you more effective ways to cope with your emotions, but it can also change the way you perceive what’s happening in your world. It can change your outlook, which changes your options.

In addition to coping more effectively, and while you’re practicing acceptance, psychotherapy is meant to help you feel integrated and secure. Psychotherapy facilitates a deep sense of security as the result of being understood and known which becomes deep self-understanding and self-knowledge.