Each one of us has to deal with unexpected and scary probems at different points over our lifetime.  Sometimes we see them coming, as in a terminal illness of someone we love, but oftentimes we're blindsided, as with the loss of a job.  In our increasingly busy and highly mobile society, we don't always have family and friends near to us or available to us for emotional comfort and support.  Who can you turn to, or trust when you're facing a crisis?  Who does the "rock" turn to when he/she is down and weary? So often we get pulled down so far we can't see things objectively, which keeps us stuck.  Working to see things more realistically is an essential part of the process of getting out of that hole.

Therapy is about building trust with someone who will give us a different, more objective perspective on our problems, for helping us to uncover and correct self-defeating reactions to situations that can quite unintentionally be keeping us stuck in the very problem from which we're trying to escape!  Finding ways to move through the problems we're encountering has a positive ripple effect on all of the people we care about and who need us.

I graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1995, and since then I've worked in a variety of settings- elementary schools to high schools, psychiatric hospitals, youth shelters, chemical dependency shelters, a pain management facility, an immigrant ESL program- all of which have greatly increased my understanding of many types of problems people are encountering, in addition to my own life experiences, which have been the best education.

Ironically, life's challenges can provide us with important lessons we really needed to learn, which makes the suffering more bearable if we can find a silver lining from the pain, so the struggle wasn't for nothing. 

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