Why I love Doing Psychotherapy

Why I love doing therapy  

The therapy conversation is no ordinary social discourse, in any sense of the word, and that is what I love so much about it.

Where else can you say those things that are almost never said, and where else can two minds come together to make sense of jumbled up, unformulated ideas that seem so hard to piece together?

Social norms, conversational rules, and linguistic conventions typically constrain our everyday speech and block us from being able to really say what's on our minds, but therapy works according to an entirely different set of rules. 

Therapy is a protected space; one in which the demands of reality can be suspended for just long enough to stage one's most pressing struggles, core desires, and buried joys and fears, and to allow them to come alive and be worked with in an entirely new way.

In therapy, my clients can speak to me from their truest places; they have permission to say the things they long to say without worry that it will be taken too literally. We can pretend together that a world exists in which psychic reality trumps what comes at us from the outside; and the language of the unconscious, emotions, and the creative edge can unleash a level of self-expression ordinarily repressed, silenced, and held back.

Where else can one let go of his/her deepest inhibitions; speak of his most central vulnerabilities; talk without fear of judgment or censure; and connect on a level that recaptures some of the earliest and most primitive kinds of communication available to mankind?

Therapy is a talking place like no other and I'm glad I get to spend my time in a space that is truthful, deep, playful, and connected-

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