If You are not Psycho, You Do Not Need Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy started with the work of Dr. Sigmund Freud who began treating medical conditions by looking at how thoughts and emotions affected physical health.  To this day psychotherapy is designed to treat mental illness. What if you are not psychotic, schizophrenic, or suicidal?   The majority of clients I see are NOT mentally ill, but simply need help talking through issues and resolving conflict.

This awareness that working with families and couples is not the same as working with the mentally disturbed has started new terms like marriage counselor or marital therapist.  But these ideas are still too closely tied to “treatment”.   Other new ideas have also sprung up such as life coach and marriage education which have moved us even further from the medical model.

With the rise of the computer age, let me suggest a new more meaningful image; relationship tech support.  We have all experienced at times the need for phone technical support.  The support we receive is problem focused and brief, while hopefully picking up some new tricks along the way.  It is typically one call and the issue is handled.

At HelpTalkng.com that is our mission: to provide our clients with the kind of technical support they need to address the relationship issues  and conflict in their lives with the same brief format.    The best part is that support can now be provided over the phone. Call in alone or with your partner, and we will give the structure and unbiased ideas that only a third person provides.

The way we support couples, or anyone in need of addressing conflict, is to have both parties get on the phone with one of our professionals, and we will use the very best tools and resources available to assist the two of you to talk it through.  No blame, no analysis, no psychobabble, just the structure and skills you need to say everything that needs to be said and to hear everything that needs to be heard.

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