Experience Change with Erin Brink, LMHC

Therapy, also called psychotherapy or counseling, is the process of meeting with a therapist to resolve problematic behaviors, beliefs, feelings, relationship issues, and/or somatic responses (sensations in the body).

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Therapy can help you to:

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• feel stronger in the face of challenges

• change behaviors that hold you back

• look at ways of thinking that affect how you feel

• heal pains from the past

• build relationship skills

• figure out your goals

• strengthen your self-confidence

• cope with symptoms

• handle strong emotions like fear, grief or anger

• enhance your problem solving skills

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Though no one can tell you exactly what your therapy process will be like, in all types of therapy, you will establish personal goals and collaboratively determine the steps you will take to get there. Your relationship with your therapist is a confidential one and focuses not only on the content of what you talk about, but also the process. The therapeutic process--how you share your feelings and experiences--is considered to be just as important as the specific issues or concerns you share in therapy. 

On the whole, you can expect that your therapist will be someone who supports you, listens attentively, models a healthy and positive relationship experience, gives you appropriate feedback, and follows ethical guidelines.