What Does Psychotherapy/Counseling Entail?

Life is fraught with challenges. There are times in your life when seeking the assistance of a professional psychotherapist is warranted. Psychotherapy is a process by which you examine your thoughts, feelings, actions, and relationships, increasing your self-knowledge while empowering yourself to make positive changes in your life.

Clients come to counseling for a variety of reasons. You may be dealing with feelings of depression or anxiety. You may want to change self-sabotaging or addictive patterns of behavior. You may be going through a difficult time, struggling with relationship or career issues, illness, divorce, or the death of a loved one. You may be asking yourself such questions as: Why am I here? Is this all there is? Why do I feel so alone? Why am I unhappy? Why am I so angry? Counseling offers an opportunity to pause and reflect on these questions and on your life’s challenges -- and to make the necessary changes that will allow you become more self-accepting and to live more comfortably.

Issues Addressed

Common issues that inspire clients to come in for therapy are:

Abuse Addictions Anger Anxiety/Panic Apathy/Boredom Career Commitment Issues Couples and Premarital Counceling Depression Divorce Grief/Loss

Illness Job Loss Life Transitions Personal & Spiritual Growth Relationship & Intimacy Issues Self-Doubt Stress Sexuality Trauma/PTSD

Benefits of Counseling

Some of the benefits of counseling:

• The cultivation of greater self-awareness
• Developing better coping strategies
• A greater capacity for intimacy in relationships
• Release from the past
• Less fear and anxiety
• Relief from depression
• Greater self-acceptance
• Movement toward health and happiness

Psychotherapy can help you use your life’s challenges to grow as an individual and to manage your life more effectively by increasing your self-knowledge while empowering you to make positive changes in your life.

What We Will Do Together

The issues you initially bring to counseling are the starting point from which the therapy develops. I have an active and educational style of working. You will be guided in a self-exploration that may include looking at your past as a means of understanding and identifying the origins of these issues. I will support and encourage you in confronting fears, negative beliefs, and past hurts that may be contributing to your current situation. I will help you look at what is out of balance in your life, and work toward creating a balance that allows you to live more authentically. I will listen and guide you as you seek out alternative ways to understand and react to the various challenges in your life, and support you in judging what is right for you.

I work with men, women, and couples interested in understanding themselves. Change arises out of identifying and breaking negative, habitual patterns of response and reactivity to life’s various situations. We will attempt to understand and transform outdated patterns of behavior and ways of thinking by using cognitive, intuitive, emotional, and physical awareness. We will identify what actions you can take to support your well-being and a healthier self-perspective.

Couples Therapy

Intimate relationships provide a powerful opportunity for personal growth. Couples of all kinds -- married or unmarried, same-sex or opposite-sex –come to therapy for many reasons and during different stages in their relationship. Issues commonly addressed in couple’s therapy are sex, money, communication, infidelity, illness, parenting, addiction, abuse, anger, jealousy, and caring for aging parents. Couples therapy allows you to jointly address these issues while developing honest communication and greater harmony in the relationship.

Couples therapy is not just about having “problems” in your relationship. Many successful couples use couples therapy as a way of maintaining a healthy relationship. Couples find that therapy creates a safe space in which they can regularly discuss what needs attention or to communicate what is currently working or not working in their relationship. Couples therapy is an opportunity to be present for each other, and to use your relationship as a vehicle for healing and cultivating greater intimacy and love.

Premarital Counseling
More and more engaged or newly married couples use couples counseling as a proactive, preventive measure, addressing some of the issues they encounter early in their relationship. Therapy gives couples an opportunity to address their hopes as well as their fears as they move toward committing to spending their lives together. By exploring expectations and creating intentions around important issues such as sex, family, money, and communication skills, counseling lays a foundation from which the relationship can continue to deepen and grow. Premarital counseling is a way to take time to honor and reclaim the magnitude of marriage.

Watch for my upcoming group workshop:

Couples Bootcamp – A tool kit for successful relationships
This workshop is designed to strengthen your relationship by giving you practical tools and information to help you manage the inevitable challenges inherent in intimate relationships by developing self awareness, communication skills, and practices. Informed by the Enneagram, the work of John Gottman PH.D and Marshall Rosenberg PH.D. You will learn your Enneagram type and how this influences your thoughts and behavior. You  will understand the fundamentals to establishing a healthy and vital relationship. You will develop more effective ways of communicating, giving and receiving feedback and conflict management.

For more information email: kylecorsig@yahoo.com or call 415.255.3253

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