What is the Purpose of Psychotherapy? 

The purpose of psychotherapy is to  learn to take care of yourself in ways that promote a healthy life and secure better relationships. The first order of any course of psychotherapy is coming to recognize and understand self-defeating patterns and destructive habits.

A further purpose of psychotherapy is to increase your awareness and self-observation so that you can change behaviors, think creatively, be decisive, enhance insight and empathy, and resolve conflicts.  That sounds ambitious, but, psychotherapy benefits can be many and profound depending on your intentions and motivation.

 

What is a Psychotherapist?

In Connecticut, the term “psychotherapist” is not legally defined by the state’s licensing division.  Professionals who do “psychotherapy” can come from any number of health related training programs and educational backgrounds. Some of the more common ones are psychology, social work, psychiatry, nursing, marriage & family counselors, and certified professional counselors.   There are also more specialized professionals such as certified addiction counselors.

What is important is that you know that the person you are seeing has proper training and experience to handle the situations for which you are seeking help.

Litchfield Neurofeedback offers psychotherapy services in CT in combination with neurofeedback training to bring about rapid and long-lasting results for problems that may have persisted for years and have not yielded to other approaches. As a practitioner in Litchfield County, CT for over twenty-five years, David Pavlick was one of the first to use the advanced scientific application of neurofeedback training along with psychotherapy to help individuals and families to resolve their problems and improve their lives. 

Continue reading to learn more about our psychotherapy service in CT and how psychotherapy works.