Life is full of ups and downs, gains and losses, most of which we cope with on our own. Every once in awhile, something comes along that knocks us off course and we get stuck. If you are researching this website, you may be wondering if therapy is something that can help you. We get stuck when the demands of current challenges are too much for our usual ways of coping.
Stress comes with change, and change can be stressful when you don't want it, but even when you do. It can come from desired changes that affect you and your relationships-getting married, moving, buying a home, taking a new job, a promotion at work, having children, even retiring. It might result from disconnection from a friend, partner, sibling, parent or child due to conflict, divorce, disease, injury or death.
Stress is part of everyday life. Most of the time, we manage well, coping in the ways we have always done. Symptoms like depression and extreme anxiety occur when old ways of coping no longer work in the face of current challenges.
Stress comes with change, and change can be stressful when you don't want it, but even when you do. It can come from desired changes that affect you and your relationships-getting married, moving, buying a home, taking a new job, a promotion at work, having children, even retiring. It might result from disconnection from a friend, partner, sibling, parent or child due to conflict, divorce, disease, injury or death.
Stress is part of everyday life. Most of the time, we manage well, coping in the ways we have always done. Symptoms like depression and extreme anxiety occur when old ways of coping no longer work in the face of current challenges.
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The problems that bring people to therapy are almost always a combination of life's hardships and ways of coping that are no longer working.
While therapy is no guarantee against misfortune, what it can do is change the way you think about and respond to life's challenges.
A key to this process, and to overall mental health is self-acceptance, a deep awareness that while problems and symptoms may hurt you, they don't define you.
Just as we develop ways of coping within our early family relationships, it is in relationship that we can change them.
While therapy is no guarantee against misfortune, what it can do is change the way you think about and respond to life's challenges.
A key to this process, and to overall mental health is self-acceptance, a deep awareness that while problems and symptoms may hurt you, they don't define you.
Just as we develop ways of coping within our early family relationships, it is in relationship that we can change them.
When you and your partner come to me for couples or marriage counseling, we will explore the stressors that impinge on your relationship.
These are almost always a combination of challenges outside and inside your marriage.
Something changes and your relationship becomes unbalanced, altering the way you and your partner interact.
You get a promotion at work or have a new baby, and the time you used to spend together is consumed by work demands or your child's needs.
The demands on you are greater at the same time the security and support of your relationship is less apparent.
These are almost always a combination of challenges outside and inside your marriage.
Something changes and your relationship becomes unbalanced, altering the way you and your partner interact.
You get a promotion at work or have a new baby, and the time you used to spend together is consumed by work demands or your child's needs.
The demands on you are greater at the same time the security and support of your relationship is less apparent.
Although people come to group therapy with a variety of different symptoms (like depression, anxiety, stress, relationship problems), they have in common a desire to be closer to important people in their lives.
In my role as your psychologist, I may recommend group therapy in addition to individual or couples counseling.
Group therapy is an ideal place to learn and practice new behaviors "live, " since the presence of the other group members will trigger the feelings and reactions that challenge you in your close relationships.
In my role as your psychologist, I may recommend group therapy in addition to individual or couples counseling.
Group therapy is an ideal place to learn and practice new behaviors "live, " since the presence of the other group members will trigger the feelings and reactions that challenge you in your close relationships.
Sometimes when people find out I'm a psychologist, they ask, "How can you stand to listen to people's problems all day?"
If that was all there was to it, I wouldn't.
However, as you tell me your story, I am learning what I need to know to help you get unstuck.
What forces shape your beliefs about yourself?
Do those beliefs block or promote your freedom to respond creatively to the stress of change?
Where are the openings for small changes to begin?
These are the questions that keep me in the therapist's chair from week to week.
If that was all there was to it, I wouldn't.
However, as you tell me your story, I am learning what I need to know to help you get unstuck.
What forces shape your beliefs about yourself?
Do those beliefs block or promote your freedom to respond creatively to the stress of change?
Where are the openings for small changes to begin?
These are the questions that keep me in the therapist's chair from week to week.
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