Psychotherapy
What is Psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy is a general term that is used to describe the process of treating psychological disorders and mental distress. During this process, a trained psychotherapist helps the client tackle a specific or general problem such as a particular mental illness or a source of life stress. Depending on the approach used by the therapist, a wide range of techniques and strategies can be used. However, almost all types of psychotherapy involve developing a therapeutic relationship, communicating and creating a dialogue and working to overcome problematic thoughts or behaviors.
Client-Centered and Collaborative Approach
There are many different therapeutic modalities and treatment approaches that people find to be of help. Individual therapy typically involves regularly scheduled meetings between a licensed therapist and a client.
Individuals seek out therapy for many reasons. Whatever your reason, therapy can provide a supportive environment to work on your goals, heal emotional pain, or make the changes you desire in your life. Maybe you feel like you just need someone to listen, or maybe you feel that you need someone to challenge you to think or act in new ways.
Bald Mountain Behavioral Medicine embraces a client-centered and collaborative approach to therapy, meaning that we would work with you to approach your issues from a perspective that we hope will best match your needs, values, beliefs, and goals. We’ll examine your life carefully considering how the psychological, intellectual, emotional, social, and physical aspects of your life may be affecting the issues that you’re working on in therapy.
Safe and Efficient Platform
Couples Therapy provides a safe and efficient platform, focusing on restoring connection and trust while improving communication and problem-solving.
This can be a practical and effective means towards relational growth and healing. Oftentimes, committed relationships experience difficulties and for some, these troubles reach a point where one or both partners are profoundly disappointed within their relationship. Not all couples choose to approach therapy only in times of distress. Some choose to participate in couples therapy in order to enhance their current relationship.
Relationships can give us joy and comfort, but they can also disappoint and hurt. How do you react to those moments of negativity? Often times we feel defensive and either withdraw or say things we might later regret. Problems are not solved during an argument … but new problems tend to arise as a result of an argument and escalating conflict. Therefore, what is important is how you interact with your partner and resolve your conflict.
Couples counseling is a way to learn about yourself in a relationship and how to interact with your partner in a healthy and positive way. This can be achieved through couples therapy exercises and couples therapy techniques. Working together, we will focus on your relationship and enhance your communication tools and conflict management/resolution skills.
Marriage Exercises for Struggling Couples
Marriage counseling is another form of Couples Therapy. Marriage counseling helps couples recognize and resolve conflicts, issues, and improve relationships. Through marriage counseling, each partner is encouraged to examine key issues related to personality, perception, and values. This allows each partner to make thoughtful decisions and choices about the relationship including decisions about what changes are needed (in the relationship and in the behavior of each partner) for both to feel satisfied with the relationship.
Couples therapy can be short term. You may need only a few sessions to help you weather a crisis. Or you may need couples therapy for several months, particularly if your relationship has greatly deteriorated, along with more in-depth marriage exercises for struggling couples. As with individual psychotherapy, you typically see a marriage counselor or therapist once a week. Sometimes the process is very similar to individual psychotherapy, sometimes it is more like mediation, and sometimes it is educational. The combination of these three components is what makes it effective.
Studies on divorce have shown that 40-50% of marriages, 60%-65% of second marriages, and 75% of third marriages, all end in divorce.
The pain from previous relationships or marriages accompanied by feelings of failure can often be carried into new relationships resulting in repetition of the same behavioral patterns. Rather than approaching new relationships with fear, marriage counseling will teach you to master new skills and increase positive results.
Bring the Entire Family System Together
Family counseling & therapy provides a unique opportunity to bring the entire family system together in order to cope with many different problems and situations.
Oftentimes, an individual family member may be identified as having the problem, yet it is likely that the entire family system is affected. While working with families, we focus on creating a safe and therapeutic environment in order to achieve healthy interactions, growth, and healing.
What is Group Therapy?
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