Psychotherapy helps people to better understand themselves, to strengthen their potentials and to better cope with their challenges.

 

Often, on our path in pursuit of the external objectives of today’s society, we lose contact with our primal role, with our true purpose, with our soul. We are trying to move in a direction that for us sometimes does not prove to be the right one, and we therefore cannot be successful. For this reason, we feel unhappy. Although we are wasting a lot of energy and time on it, the goal is not really ours. When we contemplate further, when we listen to our heart, when we shed the skins of expectations of other people and step in the right direction, our goals become more attainable and the way to get there slightly easier. Suddenly, we are no longer so tired and we are smiling again and more often.

 

But the radical changes to our lives take time and energy, and require constant work on ourselves. This is the case even when we are facing a shortage of energy, or when we are running out of time, or when our therapist is responsible and guilty for our not progressing fast enough – such reasons are what we call defences. Together with the therapist, we try to overcome these defences in order to advance a step further towards a better quality of life. Only in this way are radical changes possible. Without this effort, we cannot expect the desired changes to our lives.

 

In order to attain the desired changes, first and foremost a serious reflection is required, followed by a decision. Even the awareness that you do not want to change anything in your life, or that you cannot change anything, or that you are afraid of any kind of substantial changes, or if you simply do not feel like changing your way of life – each of these entails a decision, a decision for which you stand and which leads to a situation where you find yourself in the present, a decision which is more or less satisfying for you.