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What to expect from therapy
Clients in treatment can expect confidentiality during therapy sessions. However, a therapist may break confidentiality if someone is in immediate danger of harming themselves or others. Therapists are required to by federal or state law of Georgia as mandated reporters. Therapists will explain the limits of confidentiality and provide written guidelines during the first therapy session.
How long does each therapy session take?
Individual therapy sessions often last from 45 to 60 minutes.
Couples Therapy can last from 60 to 90 minutes.
Family therapy most often last 90 minutes and is contingent on how many participants are in the session.
How often sessions occur and how long they are in depend on many factors, including:
The mental health condition addressed and its severity.
The amount of time the person in therapy has had the issue.
How much the issue affects day-to-day life.
How much distress the issue causes.
How quickly the person in therapy improves.
Financial limitations
Some concerns can be addressed through short-term therapy over a few weeks. However, chronic or more complex concerns can require long-term treatment. Sometimes, it may take more than a year for noticeable progress to be made.
How Psychotherapy Work
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is one of the most popular and effective types of therapy. This approach helps people look at the connection between thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Then, people can replace negative thinking patterns with positive ones.
The belief behind CBT is that healthy thoughts often promote positive feelings and productive actions.
Other effective approaches include but not limited to:
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT): Can help people cope with stress, improve emotional regulation, and work on relationships.
Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT): Can help build relationship skills.
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT): May increase awareness of thoughts and emotions.
Psychodynamic therapy: Can help people understand unconscious experiences and how they may affect behavior.
Solution Focused Brief Therapy: Supports traumatized clients in making positive changes by focusing on the present and the future without requiring them to retell or re-visit painful details of traumatic past events.
Reality Therapy: is a client-centered form of cognitive behavioral psychotherapy that focuses on improving present relationships and circumstances, while avoiding discussion of past events.
Motivational Interviewing: is a counseling method that helps people resolve ambivalent feelings and insecurities to find the internal motivation they need to change their behavior. It is a practical, empathetic, and short-term process that takes into consideration how difficult it is to make life changes.
Person Centered Therapy: is based on the belief that people will engage in activities leading to positive growth and development if given the opportunity. This belief is consistent with the value of optimism that everyone has the capacity to recover, learn, and grow.
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The Conscious Spot is here to help our clients of all ages live happier, healthier and more productive lives.” Through the use of various psychotherapy methods and collaborative treatment measures, our clients develop life-changing habits to help them cope with any of life’s various obstacles. Our therapy sessions are designed to elevate our client's consciousness by providing them with effective tools to help them see the glass half full instead of half empty.