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We can’t answer that here, but this section is aimed at helping you think about the question.
What has drawn you to read this page? I remember how frightening starting therapy can be, so maybe you’re looking for something on this page that will make you think “No, I don’t need therapy!” Therapy can be useful for all sorts of things and all sorts of situations. Only a chat together will help us work out if therapy with me will be useful to you. And if we begin work together, we will continue to check if it’s helpful.
People come to therapy for many different reasons. It’s often it is the strategies we developed a long time ago that were essential and effective once, that perhaps now are beginning to be the problem. As well as experiences like feeling unhappy, anxious or depressed, it is common to explore things like this in therapy:
- Being too hard on yourself
- Working too hard
- Feeling that your life is empty
- Relationships not working
- Feeling worthless or like an imposter
- Having problems with anger
- Feeling like you’re responsible for everyone
- Envy or jealousy
- Grief that won’t heal
- Needing to control
- Problems with eating, drinking or drugs
Something I hear a lot is “Nothing bad happened to me, I’ve nothing to complain about, other people had it far worse”. That sounds to me like a person who is minimising their experience, and maybe also their pain. The truth is, some people will have had it worse than you, and some people will have had it better. It’s irrelevant. Comparisons with others are perhaps inevitable, but unhelpful.
