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INDIVIDUALLY TAILORED PSYCHOTHERAPY: In Inner Humanism
Psychotherapy you will be cared for as a unique individual, and your psychotherapy will be
tailored to your needs and comfort level. Your Psychotherapist will get to know you and the specific concerns and difficulties you experience in your well-being, behavior and habits, along with the changes you want to make. Your psychotherapy will be based entirely on the goals you set.
CHANGE ON BOTH PRACTICAL AND DEEPER LEVELS: Inner Humanism
Psychotherapy works simultaneously on both a practical level to help you
make changes in your feelings and behavior in your daily life, and on a deeper
level to help with the source of the difficulties. Since this dual objective goes
beyond correcting thoughts, beliefs and understanding to improve your ongoing
inner well-being and core feelings about yourself and others, change is intended
to be deep and long-lasting. The overall aim of Inner Humanism Psychotherapy
is to bring about higher levels of functioning, well-being, healthy behaviors and
habits based on a foundation of pleasurable inner well-being that includes an
experience of being a valuable, worthy, lovable and loving person.
CHANGE OCCURS NATURALLY WITHIN THE PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC
RELATIONSHIP: In Inner Humanism Psychotherapy, change on both practical
and deeper levels is nurtured through a natural process within the psychothera-
peutic relationship, and in most cases, does not require the use of medication.
Within a caring psychotherapeutic relationship your in-born, positive feelings
and abilities are increasingly unlocked and strengthened.
INNER ROADBLOCKS TO CHANGE: An Inner Humanism Psychotherapist
can provide a unique understanding and way of helping you with the specific
emotional and behavioral components of your challenges in well-being,
behaviors and habits. You will receive help aimed at identifying and
overcoming the particular inner roadblocks that are holding you back.
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CHANGE IS TWO STEPS FORWARD, ONE STEP BACKWARD: Inner
Humanism
has identified that psychological change always involves a dynamic process
of moving two steps forward followed by one step backward. When you
make progress in feeling better and engaging in behaviors or patterns you like,
the inner roadblocks that have been holding you back, push back and resist
the changes you’re trying hard to make. Progress is followed by temporary
setbacks when you fall back on old, familiar, painful feelings, behaviors and
habits. Without help, these setbacks are discouraging and often derail efforts
to change feelings and behavior. An example is when an adult, teen or child
works hard to reach a healthy weight and then slips back into an unhealthy
weight. Inner Humanism Psychotherapists have specialized expertise in
understanding the cause of these setbacks, along with expertise in helping
you turn these inevitable setbacks into opportunities for further growth.
YOUR TEEN OR CHILD: If you are looking for help for your teen or child
who is having problems involving well-being, behaviors, or habits, the same
Inner Humanism advances and age-appropriate goals for change, on both
practical and deeper levels, apply to psychotherapy with these age groups.
Certain specially trained Inner Humanism Psychotherapists offer psychotherapy tailored to the developmental needs of teens and children of all ages.
For information on INNER HUMANISM PSYCHOTHERAPY for TEENS
and CHILDREN, and INNER HUMANISM PARENT COUNSELING, see
Types of Services.
You can learn more about the background story of who developed this psychotherapy approach, a great Chicago story, as well as the theory behind the approach, by clicking on the link, What is Inner Humanism? and visiting the pages who developed it and why? and how does it address unhappiness and unlock happiness?
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