Do you find yourself asking…Am I really satisfied with my life? Why do my feelings have such control over me? Is my diagnosis my destiny? Are my beliefs and values holding me back? Why do the normal problems of life become so overwhelming to me? Why do the same problems keep coming up over and over again? Do the meanings that I have given life support and encourage me or discourage me? How can I let the past go so I can live in my present and create a meaningful future? What could life mean to me?

People who struggle with these questions can be helped with a personalized psychotherapy.

Personalized psychotherapy includes the following elements:

• Focuses on the client’s circumstances, goals, and values.
• Takes a biopsychcosocial view of the problems of living.
• Cultivates a cooperative partnership between the client and therapist.
• Stays attuned to the current developments in psychological science and is response to more classical approaches to psychotherapy.
• Is sensitive to the client’s time commitments rendering the duration of therapy to a few or many sessions depending on the client’s interest, motivation, needs, and circumstances.
• Emphasizes the person’s unique strengths that may be undiscovered or undeveloped.
• Conducive to personal growth and development.
• Reduces emotional and behavioral symptoms that interfere with personal progress and social living.
• Appreciates the relationship between the client and the therapist to be a vital ingredient to therapeutic change.
• Explores the possible developmental roots of a client’s current difficulties.
• Promotes personal responsibility to accept circumstances as they are, to choose purposeful choices and goals, and to develop realistic plans that move the person closer to feeling significant.
• Uses psychoeducational exercise between sessions that assist the client in reaching their goals.

In sum, psychological problems can be overcome by creating alternative choices and plans of action that affirm a person’s reasons for living. My role is that of a developmental coach who encourages a client to sustain their efforts toward the goals that make life worth living. As the client learns to solve problems that previously seemed impossible they experience positive feelings that encourage the adoption of a purposeful style of living.