If you are considering psychiatric counseling, you may wonder what to expect. After all, most people who have never gone to counseling only have scenarios from television to work from. What does therapy actually look like in reality?
These are some of the stages of therapy, designed so that you have the best chances of treatment and improving your life from day one.
Opening
The first process involved in therapy is opening.
If you have recently been struggling with your mental health, you and your counselor or therapist may feel that you need more help than just a weekly session to get you through the rough time you are having. While there are several options to consider when this is the case, one you may not know much about is partial hospitalization program (PHP) services. Partial hospitalization is a great compromise between being fully hospitalized in an inpatient treatment center and just going to your regular counseling sessions.
If you and your spouse or partner are thinking about going to couples therapy, you may be unsure of whether or not you should go. Part of the problem is that you may be afraid of or at least uncomfortable with the unknown. But couples therapy does not have to be this daunting and mysterious thing. You can go into it knowing, in general, what to expect from the process.
Traumatic events come in all types and sizes. Regardless of the size of your traumatic event, you are still affected in ways you may not even know yet. It is important to seek treatment for your trauma, and there are different types of therapy you will need to recover.
Physical Therapy
Lots of traumas come with physical damage to the body. Assaults that leave you wrapped in casts and bandages, car accidents that leave you in traction and unable to walk, and war wounds that leave you without a limb are all types of physical trauma.
