Offices in Walnut Creek and Pinole
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Myths about Psychotherapy
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Myths about Psychotherapy
Therapy Doesn't Work, People Don't Change
The more accurate statement is that people, like everything else, change constantly - often despite our best efforts to hold on to and to maintain what is familiar (even if it's misery). Change is ruthless, relentless, inevitable. It creates, saves, and undoes us. What causes distress is a more or less rigid attachment to the way things were a year, a decade, a month, or a moment ago.
My mentor reminds me: form or be formed. Adapting to our bodies as they grow (stronger or weaker, faster or slower), adapting to the changes in others, in those we love, the changes in our work-life, and in our world is vital.
Psychotherapy can help you accept the losses more gracefully, evaluate the possibilities more fully, and participate more proactively in the formation of what you might otherwise think is simply happening to you.
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© 2010 Aaron J. Feldman, LMFT. All rights reserved.
Aaron J. Feldman, LMFT is a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist offering individual and couples counseling & psychotherapy. His offices are in Walnut Creek and Pinole, easily accessible from Antioch, Bay Point, Benecia, Clayton, Concord, Crockett, Danville, El Cerrito, Hercules, Lafayette, Martinez, Orinda, Pittsburg, Pleasant Hill, Point Richmond, Richmond, Rodeo, San Pablo, and San Ramon. He specialized in working with clients on anger management, high conflict and abusive relationships (including domestic violence), communication, intimacy, and other significant personal and relationship problems.
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