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Traditional psychotherapy focuses on what is wrong with the person, and removing the disorder. However, our work together will take you further. As humans, we're not meant to simply be devoid of negative emotions or life experiences. In addition to successfully navigating the negatives of life, we're capable of experiencing positive emotions and truly thriving in our communities. Our work together will take you there. What will your life look like once you've moved past the depression and anxiety and were flourishing?

Psychotherapy is the use of psychological methods to help a person change behavior and overcome problems in a positive manner. Its aim is to help people understand the thoughts behind feeling anxious or depressed and addressing these thinking patterns. Psychotherapy will help you change behaviors and habits that are limiting you, to experiencing your fullest potential.

What is "psychotherapy?" People use the terms "counseling" and "therapy" interchangeably with "psychotherapy." It is the process of deciding to find help healing past issues, making sense of your current life, and helping to understand and be at peace with decisions that will affect your future. We partner together to meet your therapy goals in healthy, positive ways.

Whether working with individuals or couples, I utilize an individualized and collaborative approach to psychotherapy. I am often asked by prospective clients how long or in what way I treat a particular issue and my response is that I do not use a cookie-cutter approach to people and their presenting problems. Everyone is unique and has their own set of strengths and challenges. In our first session, I will provide you with my assessment of the presenting problem and recommendations for treatment and long term sustained recovery. If you are not comfortable with my approach or with me, I will assist you in finding another therapist.

Through psychotherapy, I can provide feedback, observations, information, or a new perspective about what’s happening. I may point out connections between your thoughts and feelings or between current responses and past relationships. You may also come to see things differently as you explain things to me. Together, we can develop new ways for you to understand, cope with, and communicate about your experiences and to improve your relationships.

All people have problems. When the problems are not the consequence of their own doing, such as resulting from abuse, neglect, or tragedy, I work to help these individuals muster their personal resources to better cope and learn recover from the trauma. However, most of the problems that people tend to have are the result of the poor choices they make. This is the frequent consequence of not really knowing who they are. My work as a psychotherapist is to help my clients become more aware of themselves. Lots of times it means facing some irrational and negative beliefs that get played out over and over. I work in a collaborative way that helps increase my clients knowledge of themselves.

Psychotherapy is considered talk therapy. Talking about your problems can help you to process what is really going on with you and to utilize new strategies of handling stressful situations. Together we can identify thinking patterns that are not helpful and we can take those thoughts captive and change them. Learning to utilize God's Word to breakdown hurtful and inaccurate thinking is possible and I can help you.

Psychotherapy offers the venue for deeper personal awareness. Self-awareness is often the key of the emotional and mental disorders that can affect our lives. My approach to psychotherapy is to provide a safe atmosphere conducive towards open dialog where we can explore life patterns, belief systems, emotional blocks and develop insights towards deeper personal understanding. The development of healthy self-esteem and self-awareness can lead to a more satisfying life style. Your attitude will improve; your relationships will improve; your choice making will improve. The burdens of the past will heal and your life will become yours to live.

When I work with clients in psychotherapy my focus is on careful listening to their emotional experience and responses. I am especially attuned to listening and learning about the quality of their closest connections. Oftentimes when an individual, couple or family is in pain it is nearly always an indication that their most important relationships are suffering in some way. My listening and responses are focused on the clients experiences with those that matter most to them and to help them find ways to express what they truly need and want from those that they are most emotionally dependent upon. I help them connect with that vulnerable place within them.

Psychotherapy is something that can help you understand yourself better, and how you function in the world. It can help you understand patterns in your life that may be troubling for you and help to create positive change. I work with people to help them understand their belief systems, the meanings they make of experiences, as well as understanding messages they received from their families. People need a safe place to open up and explore these issues with confidentiality, which is something I provide for my clients.

James Hillman once said, "We've had a hundred years of psychotherapy and the world is getting worse." While there are many occasions where the validation and listening endemic to psychotherapy makes sense, there are times where we over assume that "feeling better" and "changing behavior" are the same. Grey Matters International, Inc. goes after the forgotten brain laws to behavior change that therapists miss when processing hours and hours of dialogues with people. Utilizing a cutting edge technology to facilitate the emotional process of change, we can make the therapy process way more effective, faster, and with less money spent. Contact kevin@kevinflemingphd.com or 877-606-6161.