How do you know when you are ready with the therapy?

How do you know when you are ready with the therapy?

As a therapist in my own practice, I am constantly asked how long therapy will take and how often a client has to come to the sessions. People still see a tropus about therapy on television, which shows stereotypical psychoanalysis, where people are expected to come several times a week and see the same analyst for years. I recently read an essay that a real psychoanalytic psychiatrist wrote that he refuses to accept new clients if they already have a psychiatrist - with the argument that the patients should simply treat their problems with their current one, since it is a question that is so popular and are happy that they take care of them at all. This essay also confirmed the idea that therapy means to work with the same therapist for years.

But the area of ​​mental health has put a long way since Freud, and psychoanalytic psychiatrists are not the only clinicians out there. In many states, other behavioral medicine, including consultants for mental health (LMHC) and marriage and family therapists (LMFT). These clinicians at master level are able to treat patients, to submit to insurance and to offer a treatment style for mental health in the event of cognitive behavioral therapists, which is as effective as medication for the treatment of anxiety, depression, ADS/ADHD, sexual functional disorders and more. And here is a little -known secret: insurance funds do not cover years of psychoanalysis because cognitive behavioral therapy (also known as CBT) is effective in a relatively short time.

No progress with your therapist? Changes and insights will probably not happen overnight, but if your therapist is unable to show your progress or set specific goals, it may be time to look around for someone else. Feedback Informed Treatment is an instrument that advisors use to measure the work that you do in your psychotherapy sessions. If you can guide the session by measuring how things in your life and how things run at the session, then talking to a therapist becomes an actual therapy and not only on this stream of consciousness from the days of psychoanalysis.

I compare therapy with learning a language. If you learn a new language, you cannot expect to speak fluently overnight. By learning the basics in therapy and practicing at home and really using the language in your daily life, you will be on the way to talking fluently. But even if you master a new language fluently, it does not mean that there is no more learning. How can this be transferred to the therapy? You can start with a therapist and learn some things - but definitely continue with another therapist if you need refresher sessions and build on it! The therapy can be evidence -based, but is still not as easy as - you have this diagnosis and are now healed. But the advantages of therapy do not have to be on the couch for years!

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