5 Ways To Know If You’re Really Ready For Holistic Therapy
In 2020 everyone is talking about going to therapy. Therapy is definitely becoming more normalized socially now than before in Communities Of Color. I’m sure you know people like your friends or family who have “a Therapist” at this point. Maybe your friend so and so has a Therapist and she’s doing better than before. Maybe this friend has been raving about how therapy helps and has been encouraging that you should go and see a Therapist as well. But how do you know if you’re emotionally ready?
Sure, maybe you could use some life improvement or emotional progress but is therapy what you want or need to achieve success to change your life? To be frank not everyone who goes to therapy is ready for therapy. It’s easy to be seduced by the idea of working with a therapist in order to heal current or past pain and trauma but ultimately there’s a lot more happening in a Client-Therapist relationship beyond just having a simple conversation about your current feelings. Consider the 5 signs of readiness below as a self-assessment that can help you know if you’re ready for Holistic Therapy.
Commitment to Be Open And Explore
A part of being ready for therapy is to feel comfortable to be open and explore your emotions. This means that you can actively talk about how you feel. This means you are able to talk about what’s bothering you. This means you are open to self reflect what would help you feel better. This mean you are open to explore behavioral patterns and determine with support if alternative coping methods could be more supportive of your needs.
This means you will attempt to answer questions from your therapy sessions without saying, “I don’t know” as a final answer. It’s important that you move beyond the feeling of not knowing an answer to find an answer in session. It’s important also that if you don’t feel comfortable talking with a Therapist about everything that comes up in session that you be able to share this with your therapist by pinpointing your own comfort level and readiness.
Being open and explorative is a big part of how talk therapy will help you to know where you have opportunities to heal and improve. If you are closed and not feeling comfortable exploring there’s likelihood that you aren’t ready for therapy just yet.
Your Willing to Commit Your Time Consistently and To Commit Financially
Therapy is often deemed as affordable, moderate, or expensive depending on the different methods of payment and reimbursement that are available. Some individuals who receive therapy will use their insurance and pay a co-payment. Some people will use their employment benefits for reimbursement and receive Super Bills for their therapy sessions to gain reimbursement. Some people pay out of pocket for their therapy sessions.
Therapy isn’t just a financial commitment. Therapy also requires a time commitment. You will benefit from therapy by going to your initial session and follow up sessions. If you don’t attend sessions consistently or play any part of investing financially in your sessions you may feel less connected to the therapy work that is being provided to you. The relationship, connection, and rapport with your therapist are also established with consistency in attendance for your sessions. Going to therapy 1x per month or every other month is ideal as the most distance to keep between sessions with some consistency. If you wish to work a therapist less than every other month, consider that you probably don’t require therapy support.
Commitment to Share How You Feel
In therapy it’s important for you to have space to share how you feel. You may find that you have not shared enough about your feelings overall in life and this may be a key goal you’d like to work on in therapy. I encourage you to bring your feelings to your therapy sessions. Be prepared and comfortable sharing when you don’t feel comfortable or upset. It’s also a great opportunity while working with a therapist to verbalize (not text, thank you) when or if you ever feel frustrated, unheard, disrespected, disregarded or misunderstood in session by your therapist. Your feelings are always valid and it’s best to make sure you and the therapist your working with stay on the same page about your emotions and feelings for best therapy outcomes. Therapy is a key space to talk about emotions including difficult emotions.
You Aren’t Sure What Makes You Feel Stuck
You are ready to move forward in your life but you’re not sure what to do to get some progress going. You might want to feel better emotionally but your not sure what could help you feel differently. If your experiencing discomfort or symptoms for your mental health you may not be clear on what behaviors or coping tools to try. If you already know what makes you feel stuck, then you can work with your therapist to look at different ways to get progress where you would like to experience change.
When you work with a therapist, you can work jointly to look at which coping tools will possibly be most impactful for resolving and reducing your symptoms or emotional discomfort.
You Are Willing to Work On Your Coping Practice With Some Consistency
In therapy a term that is often used for symptom management and behavioral change is the term coping tools. In your therapy session you will be able to jointly work with the therapist to create a coping plan for improving and reducing symptoms. It’s important that you practice your coping outside of the session. It’s completely okay and expected that you may not be perfect but if you are not practicing any coping from session or designing healthy alternative coping practices independently you will not feel the change you want is likely happening. Emotional change is most connected to change in behavior and changing your thinking process to help you feel healthier and comfortable.
When considering therapy, please consider the 5 signs of readiness first. I hope this holistic therapy post feels informative. I’m encouraging you to reach out for therapy if you feel ready and if you find that you aren’t ready, consider the alternatives that you feel more comfortable with.
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