For many years I thought I could intellectualise myself through the pain and strains of life. Beginning my training as a therapist at the tender age of 22 gave me an incredibly helpful theoretical blueprint for discovering my authentic self but it wasn’t a shortcut to processing my feelings and understanding how my sub-conscious beliefs were shaping my everyday and keeping me stuck in a loop of depression and anxiety. To do that and to start building a life I felt was truly worth living, I had to commit to my own counselling journey. And it was this process that gave me the opportunity to really start flipping the script. And so while a fascination with the human psyche and a desire to work with people got me in to the profession, it is because therapy has transformed my own life that I remain so passionate about the job.
Therapy allowed me to:
Overcome perfectionism and that never feeling good enough thing.
Stop trying hard at things I didn’t really care about and put that energy into wha really mattered to me.
Begin practising boundaries and gain more self-respect and confidence.
Work through attachment issues and begin to feel more secure and satisfied in relationships.
Identify the inner critic for what it was and stop beating myself up for everything.
Admit to and process sadness and disappointment .
Learn to accept myself.
Start believing that I didn’t need to achieve to be good enough. But also; that I could achieve the things I wanted to.
Build resilience by learning to feel my feelings and identify my needs.
Learn to care less about what other people thought of me and start living according to my own values.
And the list goes on…
It wasn’t always a comfortable process. And it took time. But I am so glad that I did it. The reward has far outweighed the effort.
And alongside my clinical expertise and extensive experience I have bags of energy and motivation to facilitate the counselling journey for others.
Therapy gave me ownership over my own life and it’s a privilege to help facilitate others in claiming ownership of theirs.
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