My View on the Purpose of Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy is a way that you can get a perspective from a trained professional about how to best address what is going on in your life. Usually, through another perspective, you are better able to reframe, make changes and come up with a plan to move forward in the direction that you would like your life to go. My goal as a therapist is to work with the client to align his or her life with his or her own goals (not my own). I have found through over 20 years in the field that when someone aligns with who they are as a person and builds a life that reflects that, he or she finds contentment.