Wellness

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change” –  Wayne Dyer
If you’re like many of us, you are trying to improve your circumstances. Whether the shift you desire is in your career, physical health, relationships, or mental health – perhaps all you need is a different perspective. Talk therapy is an amazing tool that you can use to help bring about the change you desire – no matter what that may be! Working with a talk therapist can provide you with what you need in order to:
Find a Starting Point
There are so many moving parts that encompass a happy and successful life which sometimes can make getting started on your quest for self improvement difficult! Talk therapy helps you clarify the best area to focus on and allows you to organize your goals so they can become more achievable. With your therapist by your side, you’ll be more empowered than ever to tackle your largest obstacles and gain the confidence to see them through to the finish!
Learn Tools and Techniques
Coping skills are methods you can use immediately to deal with stressful situations and improve your mental wellness. A therapist can guide you to finding techniques and strategies that work for you to better manage your thoughts, feelings, and emotions. These practices work really well when you need them and are proven to be effective by clinical research!
Gain a New Perspective
As you begin to delve deeper into your own narrative, you’ll discover that you have a habit of repeating certain behaviors. This introspective initiative helps you make sense of the different things going on in your life. Once you clearly see the patterns of behaviors that need to change, you can begin to reshape them.
Improve Your Decision Making
After spending some time in therapy, you will begin to think more about the decisions you have made and how they have affected the person you have become. This process will help you place a greater value on decisions you are making today and better understand how those decisions will impact your future self. Working with a therapist will aid you in coming to your own realizations on what the best decisions are in different areas of your life.
Reshape Your Reactions
By exploring the inner workings of your emotional framework, you can reshape the way you interact with the world around you, which will give you more control of your circumstances. When you reshape the way you react and respond to adversity, that is when the greatest change occurs.
As much as the world is beginning to realize the important of staying mentally fit, there’s still a stigma around seeing a therapist that should not exist! Your mental wellness is one of the most important components of your health and you definitely do not need to have a mental illness in order to benefit from working with a therapist. If you’re currently experiencing stress, anxiety, sadness, or any one of the large range of emotions humans experience on a regular basis, you may just be shocked at the value you could receive from a few talk therapy sessions!
Modern Therapy offers convenient & affordable online talk therapy + coaching.  Still not sure?  Try Modern Therapy for free for one week by using the code Nearlyallthings.  

Author Bio: Brandon Christensen
Brandon Christensen is a passionate business leader and mental health advocate who is on a mission to leave the world a better place than he found it. Brandon is the owner of Modern Therapy, a tele-mental health company that provides talk therapy services exclusively through messaging, phone, and video sessions. Brandon has been featured as a keynote speaker on mental health topics at colleges like NYU, Skidmore College, and Columbia University. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Ramapo College of New Jersey.

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