Therapy can help you understand yourself better and grow as a person. It also can help you navigate tough times now or understand difficult life experiences from the past. Below are four common issues a skilled therapist can help you address.
Depression/addiction. Beneath these two states lie issues that therapy can help resolve, heal or improve so that they don’t continue to rule your life. When you address the underlying issues, you’re much less likely to repeat these unhealthy patterns.
Relationship conflict. Any significant relationship has periods of strife. Anger flares, communication breaks down. But if battles keep erupting and going nowhere, an objective third person can help you sort through the struggles and learn new ways to be with others.
Abuse. Healing wounds from past abuse—rape, molestation, physical, verbal—helps you
resolve hurts and stuck feelings that may be keeping you from living a meaningful life. Working with a therapist can also help you leave or avoid current abusive situations.
Low self-worth/self-esteem. These two debilitating conditions are at the root of many personal issues, such as unhealthy promiscuity or low earnings. Therapy can help you
break free of the cycle in which low self-worth fosters challenging situations that result in “less than” feelings. [
Joan Ferdinand Keleher MS, LCPC 