Psychotherapy is an amazing resource anyone can utilize to help them on the road to becoming their best possible self. But what is it? Psycho just refers to the mind. And in the same way that you might go for physical therapy, here you would participate in therapy for your mind. But rather than thinking of psychotherapy as fixing or repairing something, I prefer to think of it as a decision one makes to improve the health of one’s mind.

I believe we can all improve how we think, feel, and behave. And that this work can improve the quality of our lives. The reason one would even consider participating in psychotherapy is that life can be quite complex. When we are children, we are sponges to anything and everything that we come in contact with, and quite often, our caregivers, although they likely meant well, may have delivered messages that we were not prepared to process properly, and these messages often become at the very least confusing to us as adults on a subconscious level.

Many of these confusing messages can become barriers to us becoming our best selves. Whether our caregivers mean to hurt us or not, because at the time we did not have the tools with which to filter the information correctly, we may now as adults be using those messages as limiting beliefs that can be holding us back. Again, these messages may have become barriers to our achieving our full potential in our love life and or careers. And I believe that this is why we should normalize psychotherapy and view it as a valuable resource.