individualized psychotherapy

Engaging in psychotherapy is an admirable, reflective and constructive way of supporting yourself as you seek to make your personal and/or professional life more fulfilling. It demonstrates you have motivation and courage and are ready to take positive action in order to make the important changes you want.

If previous efforts to make these changes have not resulted in meaningful, lasting improvements don't be discouraged. It can be hard to change negative feelings, behaviors, or relationship patterns, even with the support of family and friends. You might unknowingly have encountered inner roadblocks that opposed your best efforts to make your life happier.

Within a caring therapeutic relationship, we can help you identify the inner roadblocks underlying the problems you are experiencing, determine why they arose originally, and why they persist. Together, we can work to help you overcome negative feelings and patterns. By unlocking and supporting your unique, innate strengths we can help you feel better about yourself, and work to make tangible improvements in your daily life.

Over and above standard broad training in a range of approaches, we have specialized training in a compassionate, contemporary, sophisticated psychotherapy developed in Chicago by Drs. Martha Heineman Pieper and William Joseph Pieper, which you can learn about by clicking on the links in the blue sidebar. This approach is called:

If you would like to learn more about how our approach might help you, call for a complimentary phone consultation. For additional background information on our approach, visit: www.innerhumanism.com.

Start today anew with individualized psychotherapy for your personal and/or professional life. Get expert care to help you identify, engage, follow through with, and sustain your best, truest, most genuine self-caretaking intentions. Begin, in ways, to experience yourself anew – feeling and becoming more fully the person and professional you want to be.

Start today anew to make your personal and professional life more satisfying. Arrange a complimentary phone consultation to learn more about our services.

Therapy Responds to Your Needs and Comfort
Change on Both Practical and Deeper Levels
Progress Unfolds through Therapeutic Relationship
Help for Inner Roadblocks to Change
Help for Sustaining Your Progress

You will be cared for as a unique individual, and your psychotherapy will be tailored to respond to your needs and comfort level. Your psychotherapist will get to know you, as well as the specific concerns and difficulties you are experiencing in your personal and/or professional life, along with the changes you want to make. Your psychotherapy will be based entirely on the goals you set.

Your psychotherapist will help you work on changing your feelings and behavior on a tangible, practical level in your daily life, and simultaneously on a deeper level to help with the source of the difficulties. Since this dual objective goes beyond correcting thoughts, beliefs and understanding, and aims to improve your ongoing inner well-being and core feelings about yourself and others, change is intended to be deep and long-lasting. The overall aim is to facilitate the sought for improvements in functioning based on a foundation of pleasurable inner well-being that includes experiencing yourself as being a valuable, worthy, effective, lovable and loving person.

Progress on both practical and deeper levels is nurtured through a natural process that takes place within the psychotherapeutic relationship, and in most cases, does not require the use of medication. This process aims to unlock and strengthen your in-born, positive feelings and abilities.

You will receive help in identifying inner roadblocks that are opposing your efforts to make positive change. Once identified, we will work on helping you overcome these inner roadblocks, making way for tangible improvements in your daily personal and/or professional life. Examples of inner roadblocks that can impede change in someone’s professional life might be: underlying self-confidence issues that unknowingly are interfering with decision-making and leadership, underlying tendencies to unknowingly take the ups and downs of work personally contributing to high stress levels, or tendencies to unknowingly make assignments harder than necessary. Examples of inner roadblocks that can impede change in someone’s personal life might be: unknowingly second guessing and reversing oneself in making important decisions, being overly self-critical and critical of family members.

Inner Humanism has identified that psychological change always involves a dynamic process of moving two steps forward followed by one step backward. When you make progress in feeling better and engaging in behaviors or relationship patterns you like, the inner roadblocks that have been holding you back, push back and resist the changes you are trying hard to make. Progress is followed by temporary setbacks when you fall back on old, familiar, painful feelings, behaviors, habits, and relationship patterns. Without help, these setbacks are discouraging and often derail change efforts. An example is when you work hard to create more family harmony, and then slip backward and engage in a day of arguing that increases distance. Psychotherapists at ANEW have specialized training in understanding the cause of these setbacks, along with expertise in helping you turn these inevitable setbacks into opportunities for further growth.

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