Psychotherapy
This is a concept that has evolved over the years, and it will always be like that. I would describe it as a time and a place where Patient and Therapist decide to work together to seek the causes of discomfort and transform the patterns of functioning that causes their suffering for healthier ones. But all this is wrapped in an atmosphere of empathy, warmth, and desire to be better (what each one understands by that).
And that's why patients come to therapy, to feel better, to overcome that pain, suffering, confusion, or limitation that afflicts them.
I must say that in my way of working, I place a lot of emphasis on patients understanding why they are improving, what is changing in them and what new “tools” they are acquiring. This is because it is important that patients take ownership of their own process of change and for them to see that they and I are a joint task, a permanent dialogue. And fundamentally because I believe that people should leave a therapy process feeling more flexible, more empowered in the face of uncertainty, more solid.
Finally, none of this could happen if the therapeutic space lacks: mutual empathy, interest, respect, consideration, care. The moment of therapy is an experience with a great emotional component, emotion is the engine, the energy to rediscover a kinder version of ourselves.
