Benefits of Psychotherapy in Santa Barbara

Our wounds are often an openings into the best and most beautiful part of us. - David Richo

Potential Benefits of Psychotherapy:

1. Provides a new perspective into personal, marital, and familial problems.
2. Leads to overall improvement in mental, physical, and emotional well being.
3. Provides a forum to learn the skills necessary to deal more effectively with serious mental health issues.
4. Creates a place to focus on strengths as well as problems.
5. Results in the satisfaction of setting and attaining specific goals.
6. Improves relationships with significant others, children, boss and coworkers, and friends and relatives.
7. Changes habits and patterns of behavior that no longer work.
8. Increases awareness of thoughts, feelings, and what is most important in life.
9. Leads to facing pain and suffering in a more productive manner.
10. Creates an environment to understand how the past impacts the present which results in the ability to live "in the moment" and plan for the future.
11. Improves skills in the areas communication, conflict resolution, and in the development of healthy interpersonal relationships.
12. Increases awareness of the unconscious and how the unconscious can facilitate human understanding and growth.
13. Emphasizes the importance of "quiet, mindful" time for ongoing personal reflection and development.
14. Enhances medical care.
15. Assists in "living up to our full potential."