Beyond Psychotherapy
I am constantly amazed at the different kinds of people I see for therapy, and, as with most therapists, I have developed a reputation for being good at helping people in certain stages in their lives. Actually, because of my deep interest in humans and my want for them to be happy I have had to continue my own journey and work very deeply on myself so that I offer authentic knowledge and understanding from a certain amount of wisdom from my own mind. Once one knows more about the human mind one can help almost anybody.
Because of this I am very versatile, very eclectic and can meet with all kinds of people and help them evolve. I think the most important work in this world as a therapist is the work of guiding and supporting parents. Fathers and Mothers and caregivers of children hold the greatest power and potency for a human being’s potential simply because they are affecting the developing child. They are the key factor in forming the child as to who they will be as an adult. Every single moment of a child’s development is crucial in how and who they will become later in life. Their bodies, their brains, their emotions, their mentality, their whole mind forms because of the effects of our actions, our guidance our love and kindness, or unfortunately, a lack thereof. So this has become a special area in my work. I love to help people in their all too often difficult job of parenting. It is a great joy to me when parents learn how to help their children develop into happier, relaxed, successful people. After all, if the right kind of loving, and kind parenting happens from the beginning of life there will be no great need to see a person like me and if that ever happens, what a great time that will be!
As a psychotherapist with many years experience, and an older and wiser one, I have often seen people who have come to a point where they have no purpose in their lives. Their problems are not great. They are comfortable, well employed or retired, or they may still be quite young but experiencing severe disillusionment and are seeking some deeper meaning in their life. They come with that very question. What is this life all about? What is the meaning of being on this earth? I think that every good psychotherapist will be personally confronted by this question constantly, just by the nature of their work and the best of these therapists will undergo a particular journey to find out the answer for themselves. I have been very fortunate to do this myself and have found my own answers with the help and guidance of many learned ones along the way. This has helped me to be very settled as a therapist because, after all, when I consider the range of people I see, from the person who comes to see me because they are stricken with grief at the loss of a husband, wife, partner or lover to the man I saw recently who was quite frail and wanted to know what happens when you die, we all really are eventually and ultimately on the same journey needing to know what this life is all about and especially why we are here at all.
Long term therapy will eventually lead people to explore these very questions because when people work out how to manage their lives and be a little happier I see that it naturally opens the door of the mind to wonder a bit more about the meaning of life. I have seen many people move on from their therapy and into some kind of exploration around religion or philosophy. Some go back to explore their childhood religion which they may have rejected long ago. It is through adversity that this movement toward exploring a meaning to life can occur and it helps when a small amount of space is created in people’s minds because of the work they have done on themselves. Therapy can assist this very nicely.
