Welcome to my new series, ‘Therapy Rocks!’ for National Psychotherapy Day.
For nearly 20 years, I have had the privilege of witnessing people from all walks of life become more authentic, grow and transform their lives. In conjunction with my personal experience of therapy, there is an ever increasing base of evidence highlighting the benefits of short and long – term counselling and psychotherapy. These specific disciplines are effective and can provide long lasting change for a wide range of experiences such as anxiety, depression and many other emotional, psychological and spiritual concerns. Despite this, recent research suggests that most people are less inclined to spend money and time on their psychological well-being as they are on other areas of their lives. It often takes a life-threatening health scare, a rock bottom or major life crisis before seeking and committing to therapy. Yet many of these experiences can be avoided by seeking help sooner rather than later.
Today, September 25, is National Psychotherapy Day in the United States. The National Psychotherapy Day is sponsored by Goodtherapy.org and was created by a non-profit organisation called the Psychotherapy Foundation.
Founder of the NPD, Clinical psychologist Ryan Howes suggests that there are several problems that psychotherapy has:
– Stigma remains for those who seek therapy.
– The media presents a distorted view of therapy and therapists.
– Psychotherapy has no unified, active promotional campaign.
– Low-income counselling options are sparse, underfunded, and overwhelmed.
– People aren’t aware of therapy’s proven, lasting effectiveness.
Over the coming months I will be writing about some of the above topics and hope to shed some light on all things therapy. Who knows…by this time next year, we may even have our own National Psychotherapy Day.
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