Living at Your Actual Potential Through Psychotherapy
People have needs that will never end as long as they breathe and realizing themselves is the last step of these needs. This area of need is for individuals who are unique all by themselves, aiming to end their war with themselves, fulfill their potential and have a deeper and more realistic relationship with their environment. As we begin to make sense of life and our experiences, and as we raise the emotions and expectations that we seek outside, then, the journey becomes very enjoyable, which is the therapy process, with which people discover themselves.
Psychotherapy is not a field for “problematic” or “flawed” people. On the contrary, consulting a psychotherapist means that the person cares about herself/himself and personal development and wants to reveal her/his potential. The therapy process introduces us to the “real” motivations lying behind our thoughts, feelings and behaviors which we may not even be aware of. It is a safe space where everything the client wants to share is discussed transparently, away from judgments and criticism.
Individual Psychotherapy
Individual psychotherapy is an innovative and transformative interview type that takes places between a client and the therapist during a 50-minute session, covering the inner world of the client, the experiences that one has brought from childhood and adolescence, family dynamics and current relationships.
In this process, every issue that the person wants to share, and resolve is discussed within the framework of mutual trust. Individual therapy enables individuals to approach life from a more functional perspective. Individuals can gain new healthy coping skills that they can use in cases when they experience or may experience a negative situation causing them stress and distress. Individual psychotherapy can offer positive developments in all areas of the clients’ lives, thanks to the insight and awareness gained or developed with psychotherapy.
The aim of individual therapy is to enable the clients to strengthen their coping channels in case of negative emotions and experiences such as stress, find alternative ways and discover more constructive solutions, evaluate the functionality of the root beliefs they acquired in childhood and adolescence, realize the automatic thoughts and reactions that harm them and replace these thought with healthy and functional ones.
When the clients feel the void inside, it is very normal to consult a psychotherapist for individual therapy. At the same time, when clients experience psychological disorders, they can benefit greatly from the therapy in order to control symptoms, strengthen their internal power and gain awareness and coping methods against future relapses.
Individual therapy helps people be at peace with their own existence and past. Thus, the clients can manage to stay away from melancholy and live in the moment as well as they become individuals who can fulfill their own potential. It is far beyond the controlling the symptoms for clients to approach the personality they want to feel and belong, enjoy spending time with themselves and become individuals who can establish deeper and more realistic relationships.
People may experience psychological disorder because of their past or current relationships, but they can overcome it and heal through the therapeutic relationship with their therapists.
Psychotherapy for Adolescents
Adolescence is as important as childhood in the formation of personality. This period is characterized by physical, psychological and social changes. This period of sudden mood changes is actually caused by fact that the identity seek and the stress of transition process to individuality. The individual growing young now is also not considered as an adult and being in a tight situation like this annoys the individual. Adolescence is a very difficult process not only for the adolescent, but also for the parents who care for them. Adolescents direct their attention and importance to friendship from their family for the first time in order to meet their need for belonging. This period is also a process for the adolescents, in which they seek for the discovery of sexual identity.
It should be noted that the adolescence period is unique to each individual, so it should be handled and evaluated individually. Individuals should not compare themselves with their peers, as the changes experienced during this period are related to bone age rather than calendar age. The onset and end of adolescence may vary depending on gender, weight, race, adolescence period of the parents, birth weight, diet of the individual, sport habit, active life, social and psychological status.
Adolescents, who begin to experience things they have never gone through before in their body and emotional state, may feel empty during this process. Moreover, they may frequently compare themselves to others during this period and may feel inadequate and experience melancholy, especially due to situations that their peers have experienced but have not yet. In addition, their academic grades may decrease, and they may often act rebellious since the importance they attach to the identity seek and friendship will be extremely high in this process, The anger of the adolescent stems from the confusion caused by this transition period rather than the environment, and this is a process that requires patience for both the adolescent individuals and their parents.
Psychotherapy for adolescents is of great importance in order to protect the adolescents from complex and stressful emotions, allowing them to gain awareness, inform them correctly and reduce the negative effects as much as possible. In addition, the risk-taking behaviors increasing during this period can be prevented to a large extent thanks to therapy. Disburdening this period, which we can call "stormy", for both the adolescents and their families can be achieved with therapy.
Do not forget that communication among family members is also very important for the adolescents in addition to psychotherapy for adolescents to discover their own strengths for success in both academic and social areas.