Professional therapy and counseling is a great option to help improve your mental wellness.
Therapy can help people who:
- Are experiencing emotional problems
- Are experience behavioral problems
- Have a mental health disorder
Types of therapy can include:
- Family Counseling: Helps family members understand problems within the family and how to resolve them.
- Cognitive Therapy: Helps you understand negative or false thought patterns and how to change them in order to feel or behave better in a situation.
- Behavior Therapy: Helps replace unwanted or unhealthy behaviors with healthy ones. This type uses a system of rewards and reinforcement of positive behavior.
- Psychoanalytic Therapy: Encourages you to think and talk about memories and feelings from the past. This helps better understand how you act and feel today.
- Group Therapy: A qualified professional facilitates a small group of people who have similar issues or problems. Participants support each other during times of crisis.
- Couples Therapy/Marriage Counseling: Helps couples solve problems together, communicate in healthier ways and learn to work out differences.
Certain therapies can be used in combination with prescription medicine to treat a mental health disorder. It will usually improve the results you get from the medicine.
Therapy can help treat a variety of problems. Some common reasons people seek therapy include:
- Depression
- Marriage problems, infidelity, divorce, or other relationship issues
- Sexual problems
- Stress and anxiety
- Addictions and compulsions
- Grief, loss, or bereavement
- Anger
- Career choice
- Parenting or family problems
- Phobias
- Insomnia
- Fertility issues
- Chronic pain or illness
- Domestic violence or abuse
- Eating disorders
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Source: familydoctor.org