Therapy refers to structured meetings between a licensed provider such as psychiatrists, psychologists, or counselors, and a client with a goal of improving some aspect of their life. It is a form of treatment aimed at relieving emotional distress and mental health problems. It involves examining and gaining insight into life choices and difficulties faced by individuals, couples, or families.
Why should one go for therapy?
The critical aspect of therapy is that the client or patient works collaboratively with the therapist and can identify improvement and positive change over time. Therapies have been researched, well-tested, and deemed effective. The benefits of successful therapy are life-changing.
Licensed providers help people of all ages live happier, healthier, and more productive lives. They provide a supportive environment that allows you to talk openly with someone who is objective, neutral and non-judgmental. They help in resolving problematic behaviors, beliefs, feelings, relationship issues, and/or somatic responses. No matter what challenges you may be facing. Through therapy, you can change self-destructive behaviors and habits, resolve painful feelings, improve your relationships, and more.
Who should go for therapy?
Since it does zero harm, with the help of therapy one can learn to regulate their thoughts, emotions, develop resilience, empathy and other positive traits and characteristics. Therapy can be beneficial for people even for those who are not having any issues with their mental health. For example, as mentioned earlier, therapy helps in building resilience, hence it can prevent mental health issues because one is able to handle themselves and can face any challenges that life throws at them.
Another example could be that we all feel stressed at some point of our life, even though this stress hasn’t turned into distress or any serious issues, it has a potential to affect your daily life. Therapy could help in relieving this stress before it turns into mental health problems, furthermore it can help you by teaching how to deal with stress in future as well.
Conclusion
Anyone can go to therapy. Don’t feel ashamed to do so, we need to destigmatize visiting a therapist or a counsellor because mental health matters. There is a fine line between mental health and mental illness, we need to understand that and take care of ourselves and the people we are involved with not only physically but emotionally as well.
- Vaibhavi Gupta