Psychotherapy

Talk Therapy Can Change Your Life

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Most of us have heard of psychotherapy, with a percentage of that number being in treatment. What drives people to see a therapist? What is therapy? Why and when should you see a therapist?

This article, piece one in a series about psychotherapy, will attempt to answer these questions and offer realistic information to those with complex post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health conditions.

What is Psychotherapy?

Also known as talk therapy, psychotherapy is a tool to treat mental health issues. In psychotherapy, you will talk to a stranger telling them what is bothering you, and the therapist acts like a neutral person reflecting back to you what you have said. The therapist becomes a mirror helping you to find your own path and answers.

The theme of psychotherapy is to help you identify and change your thoughts, behaviors, and troubling emotions. Sometimes medication is used in consort with psychotherapy to help ease some symptoms that surface during treatment.

Psychotherapy is often practiced in the office of a licensed mental health professional one-on-one with the therapist. However, group therapy is not uncommon.

The real work begins once the client and psychotherapist have passed the introduction stage. The client…