Benefits

Participating in therapy can offer many benefits. Here is a list of a few common benefits.

Insight:

  • Gain insight into unconscious patterns, defenses, and habits that can feel uncontrollable, painful, and self-sabotaging
  • Increase self-knowledge and self-understanding
  • Increase overall awareness and consciousness

Motivation:

  • Increase ability to handle the stress of life challenges
  • Strengthen your belief in yourself
  • Experience the freedom and courage to make new choices leading to positive changes and the pursuit of life goals and dreams

Emotional Intelligence:

  • Identify deeper feelings
  • Gain the ability to tolerate and soothe difficult emotions
  • Learn how to work with and release emotions

Empowerment:

  • Gain skills in reconnecting with your sense of power
  • Develop more security and safety from within
  • Feel more confidence and inner strength

Interpersonal Skills & Health:

  • Learn how to communicate with a sense of empowerment and honesty
  • Foster more satisfying relationships
  • Increase your capacity for intimacy with self and others

Healing:

  • Gain skills in working with how to sooth the fight or flight response that often overrides our rational and higher thinking capacities
  • Experience a safe space to work through grief and loss, abuse, and trauma
  • Reduce fear, anxiety, worry, and depression

Inspiration:

  • Experience more meaningful and purposeful living
  • Connection to your inner wisdom and knowing
  • Align with more of your full potential

Positive Feelings of:

  • Creativity and vitality
  • Passion, happiness, and inner peace
  • Self-worth, love, acceptance

If these benefits are appealing to you, please feel free to contact me for a free consultation or to schedule an appointment.

Boulder psychotherapist and counselor Jessica Higgins, PhD, LPC provides counseling and therapy to couples, individuals, teens, and families. She specializes in helping clients handle challenges and conflict in their relationship as opportunities for growth. She also specializes in working with issues related to anxiety, depression, grief, loss, life transition, spirituality, stress reduction, healing, communication, conflict resolution, and personal growth.