“The best way out is always through” (Robert Frost).

All of us have times in life when we feel lost, discouraged, nervous or scared. Times when regardless of how hard we try, it feels like we just keep hitting a wall and eventually may give up, telling ourselves we didn’t really want it anyways. Some of us are convinced we don’t deserve it, are incapable of attaining it, and that such things are only for the other people, the ones that “have it together”. The pain can reach down to levels we didn’t know we had and the feeling of being alone can be crushing.

Perhaps you’re experiencing some of these feelings and thoughts and it’s overwhelming; perhaps you feel that life is going fairly well though you really wish you could change just one thing and then it would be better. Some of the factors we face feel like they happen to us: loss of a job, changes in relationships that we didn’t anticipate, or someone who was supposed to protect us choosing to harm us instead. Others are more internal as our anger boils over to hurt yet another person in our lives or our insecurities keep us from dreaming.

In any of these circumstances, we face a choice. The choice is to withdraw and manage the best we can the way we always have or to face the obstacles and feelings head-on, actively seeking out a new and better way to respond to these obstacles, thereby creating a different outcome.

It’s at just such a time that a trained therapist can come alongside and assist in identifying the hurdles, provide the opportunity for something new, and the support that lends the courage to try again, this time in a context where it will actually work.

I invite you to begin just such a journey and hope the information here can help you in making your decision to move forward and give yourself a chance for something better.