Psychotherapy acts as a bridge
- Fe Robinson
- Sep 2
- 2 min read
Updated: Sep 3
Clients come to psychotherapy because they want something to be different to the way things are now. This can be in many different ways, you might want to alleviate painful symptoms like depression, anxiety or post-traumatic stress, or learn new ways of relating to other people, or to build more self-knowledge and self-esteem and to live life differently.
In psychotherapy clients try new things. The very act of coming to talk to someone who is not part of your life, and who can relate to you deeply within the safe boundaries of the therapeutic relationship, is a radical and bold one. Exploring yourself and your therapeutic relationship as well as your relationship to yourself and your life, you may begin to trust differently, or experiment with connecting intimately without defence, or you may begin to speak out and be witnessed in new ways.
The power of psychotherapy is that it enables growth, psychotherapy acts as a bridge. In its safety clients can practice and embed new ways of being, providing a pathway across the gap from how things have been to how you want things to be. At the other side of this bridge clients begin to take the new ways of being out into the world into relationships, family, social lives and working lives. Beyond the bridge psychotherapy is not needed, once the changes are embedded and sustainable the therapeutic work is done.
Psychotherapy at its best is a lively and vibrant endeavour, a place of connection, love and trust. It enables new ways of being, of becoming more of whom you are. If you’d like to journey safely over a transitional bridge, then get in touch on fejrobinson@gmail.com.
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