Psychotherapy Treatment - The Search
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Psychotherapy is an intentional interpersonal relationship used by trained psychotherapists to aid a client in problems of living. It aims to increase the individual's sense of well-being and reduce their subjective sense of discomfort. Psychotherapists employ a range of techniques based on experiential relationship building, dialogue, communication and behavior change and that are designed to improve the mental health of a client or patient, or to improve group relationships (such as in a family). Psychotherapy may be performed by practitioners with a number of different qualifications, including psychologists, marriage and family therapists, occupational therapists, licensed clinical social workers, counselors, psychiatric nurses, psychoanalysts, and psychiatrists.
Also From Wikipedia: Bruce
Wampold [statistician -psychologist],
reported on the importance of Positive Working Alliance to
outcome:
Searching for Happiness, Contentment, and Success
in your life
- a discussion for people thinking about
Psychotherapy Treatment
and
Counselling in Toronto
Ingrid Dresher, R.N., Psychotherapist
30 Years Experience In Toronto and North York
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DISCUSSION
of PSYCHOTHERAPY
TREATMENT
Goals for
Psychotherapy Treatment can be
set - long-term, intermediate, or short - and can be revised and
developed as insight grows, abilities manifest, and situations
externally change.
The way that I work is as a "PSYCHOTHERAPY TREATMENT PARTNER",
who, unlike a mentor,
doesn't try to set an agenda. The patient-client in psychotherapy treatment is on a journey, a
search, and an exploration. The work is accomplished when a person can
trust them self well enough to discover their real, ultimate, and
timely current of ambitions, and see promising next steps happening.
Like in the open the countryside, where one can look in all directions, and see the possibilities, the 360 degrees of directions, higher and lower levels to examine, test, explore, feel through; there is usually no hurry to decide - taking the time to think, feel, and learn, about all the choices, and how to create this "best of circumstance" for making choices.
The search
for happiness may just be the undercurrent of a life change, or it may
be the search for new livelihood, philosophy or developing
relationships.
This often includes some form of spiritual direction, or a value
system, which is being addressed or developed, and how it connects
with what is known, and what can be learned.
Not surprisingly, seeking satisfaction for "Spiritual
Hunger", or seeking "Guidance From One's Inner
Self" are common, and are often just waiting for a person to
learn about how to open inward for relationship with their resources,
dimensions, attributes, inevitably helpful parts of themselves that
earlier seemed out of reach, or even unknown!
Often next steps are outward steps, small, or what can feel like
gigantic courageous leaps, in a new direction that has opened,
excitingly, realms of new possibilities.
Sometime a short-term goal can be quickly reached, and it may be
enough for now!
Sometimes the work takes longer. Whatever your pace, depth or need, I
have a broad range of experience, and I can probably help you.
I am ready for your call, and excited to hear from you - to hear, to
see, and to understand - about what you want me to know, and for us to
discover together how you can accomplish the goals for which you have
come to work with me.
Resourcefully yours,
Ingrid Dresher, RN, Psychotherapist
Psychotherapy Treatment, Relationship Counselling, Toronto
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