Marcia Weiss

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Psychotherapy from the Therapist's Point of View

Though there are still many misconceptions about psychotherapy, I love clarifying what psychotherapy actually is, and how Carl and I interpret our roles as psychotherapists. Few people truly understand how one person can help another person to change.

For me as a psychotherapist, psychotherapy remains a complex although understandable and non-mysterious endeavor. That doesn't mean it's easy—for either student or therapist. But done well, this process promotes tremendous change and growth over time—even though most of us yearn for a quick, painless cure!

What I Enjoy about the Therapy Process

I enjoy that therapy is an inter-active, collaborative process. It is not a process where I know the answer and you don't. In my job as your therapist, I work, listen, talk, learn, think, feel, consider, propose, formulate, remember, explore, question, observe, teach, and challenge.

I enjoy the people in my practice, and I appreciate developing the important relationships I have with them. It is exciting to teach my students new, life-changing ideas that replace their old self-defeating and problematic thinking and behaviors. I enjoy seeing the results of our work together as I watch my students grow into stronger, healthier people, more adaptive and responsive to life's challenges.

Changes

People generally enter therapy in a great deal of pain. Once the work begins, here's what happens in my practice:

• Depressed students start to identify the anger and hurt underneath their depression and start to gain perspective on that anger without doubting their self worth.
• Anxious students calm down via increased awareness of their strength.
• Writers melt out of their writing blocks, back off from beating themselves up, and learn to work more effectively with their own creative styles.
• Parents' empathy increases for their children, resulting in getting along better with their kids.
• Single people gain confidence in what they have to offer a date or partner.
• Careers take off for people who thought their goals were unattainable.
• Couples stop fighting and become more loving.
• The happy couples I have helped marry and invite me to their weddings.
• People challenge themselves to do and say things their internal censors scold them to keep quiet about.

So, I hope you will become part of this happy group. I invite you to come in and interview me or Carl so we can help you change, reduce your pain, and make creative changes in your life.