The Pandemic

As we take a deeper look at “What’s So Good About Therapy?”, this third blog will address content from the first two blogs in more detail. The pandemic did a lot more than just bring awareness to the medical community, but it also caused light to shine on the mental health community.

The pandemic, along with other life changing, news breaking events, has become the catalyst(s) that exacerbated many mental health symptoms causing an increase rise in referrals for therapy seeking individuals. Individuals directly or indirectly are starting to become more educated about the benefits of therapy; therefore, dismissing their previous negative beliefs about therapy. Where are the judges? Take a look around. We’re all living in glass houses, so who can throw stones? Your therapist isn’t judging. The therapist is trained to show unconditional positive regard, which means, we accept and respect clients without judgment.

There’s more to therapy than talking, but for the purpose of this blog let’s talk about the benefits of talking about things. Discussing thoughts and feelings with a trained professional can truly lighten the load. The advantages of total transparency in a non-judgmental environment while being assisted with processing thoughts and feelings gives a new perspective on the problem.

Therapy has other advantages as well. Processing those feelings, instead of hiding or internalizing them can ward off other issues such as physical symptoms as well as medical and relational problems. Let’s look at another added value of therapy. Clients look forward to coming to therapy, whether it’s for an individual session or a couple’s session. While working with the therapist the skills and strategies developed can be instrumental with assisting the client with coping with or managing future issues.

Therapy is a place to learn strategies that not only will help get the individual(s) through the current issue/crisis, but the tools learned will help them grow and do life better overall. These tools are also relational tools that can be applied in various facets to every relationship. These tools can be used later. We’ll talk more about that later. Call Harper Therapy at (813) 434-3639 to get connected with a therapist who can help.