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Therapy for Men
It can be challenging as a man to reach out for support. As men, we are often taught that doing so is a sign of weakness or indicates a character flaw of some sort. This leaves many of us with the strategy to "bareknuckle" our way through the pain, to grit our teeth and "tough it out" until things change.
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This outdated approach rarely produces a positive result and many of the ways that men are taught to cope such as drinking, using other substances, or through anger and aggression often lead to making the original problem even bigger while adding new challenges as well.
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It doesn't have to be this way. Your manhood does not have to be defined by what others have told you about what "being a man" means. You can make a meaningful change in your life by dealing with these problems head on.
By coming to counseling, you are taking care of your own problems. You aren't letting them run your life anymore and you are taking the courageous step of working on them with someone else.
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Between dealing with the stress of work and careers, managing our intimate relationships and social lives, finding joy for ourselves, and trying to figure out how to navigate through all of the hardships of the world around us, it isn't surprising that many of us feel like we are just trying to survive.
Whether the issues you have been working on have been going on for a long time or are more recent, it is never too late to address them and try different approaches to make a meaningful change.
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Experiencing feelings that are uncomfortable or unfamiliar
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Having thoughts that you can't get off your mind
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Feeling like you can't escape your past
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Wanting to improve your relationships
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Trying to figure out who you are or who want to be
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Navigating your sexual or gender identity
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Dealing with career stress or career changes
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Going through a major life change
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Wanting to improve your communication skills
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Just needing to talk to someone
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Then you have come to the right place. Counseling can help alleviate these different issues and can help you to become unstuck from the many challenges that life has thrown at you.
Grow. Connect.
Heal.
Benefits of going to counseling
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Emotional Expression: Many men are taught that the only feelings that are acceptable to have are happiness, stoicism, or anger. Therapy helps to challenge these societal norms by providing a nonjudgmental space to familiarize yourself with all of your feelings and to express them.
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Build Effective Communication Skills: Coming to therapy helps you to process and understand your own mind and experiences and builds your ability to then communicate these with others. You can also learn practical and applicable tools to manage arguments or conflict effectively.
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Improve Relationships: By improving your ability to recognize what you are feeling and thinking you can then express and communicate in a constructive way that allows you to deepen the level of intimacy and connection in all of your relationships in your life.
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Identify Your Values: We all have different values and what gives our life meaning and purpose, and it can be hard to juggle and prioritize all of the various responsibilities we carry while making space for what matters most to us. Therapy can help you in understanding what the most important aspects of your life are and how to create the time and space to fully engage in them.
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Explore Your Masculinity: We have all received different messages of what “being a man” means, but what does it mean to you? Therapy is a great space to explore this concept and come to understand how you relate to your gender role, gender identity, and sexual orientation and embrace the person that you authentically are.
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Decrease Stress: Life is hard. We all face challenges that take a toll on us, and society often puts pressure on men to figure out these challenges without support. Therapy helps men to unburden themselves with these stressors by sharing them and developing solutions and strategies of how they want to move forward.
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Move Past Your Past: Trauma lives in our bodies. You might notice having strong automatic reactions to different situations that don’t match up with what is happening in the moment. By processing through your past, you can retrain your body and mind to be in this moment fully (more information about this on the Trauma Therapy page).
