6. Be realistic about your resources and your scope of work. 

So we've been talking alot about general stuff like do you want in person or online therapy, trusting your gut picking your therapist, knowing why you are going to therapy, knowing your available resources to how much you want or can allocated to therapy. This part we are emphasizing being realistic to your scope of work, and knowing our functioning happens according to, we need our basics down first then we can add to the basic fucntioning, once we have that down pat.

So again, we've been discussing important aspects of preparing for therapy, like understanding preferences, establishing trust with a therapist, and recognizing your resources. Hopefully emphasizing the need to have basic functioning in place before building on that is a practical approach that resonates with most people. This highlights the importance of a solid foundation for effective therapeutic work. This is because therapy and psychotherapy is like any other skill that requires patience and practice, if you are not familar with being self aware, or emotional processing, or reprocessing trauma, we want you to come feeling good in your body and only when we feel good in our bodies are we usually open to the new. This is actually proven over and again in many studies, that we are open to the new when we feel good about things and ourselves. 

Ok, so getting to the meat of it: 6. Be realistic about your resources and your scope of work. What does this mean? Very shortly, if you don't have your basic care totally covered, be prepared to go to the basics before deeper work, like childhood trauma or interpersonal issues. Also, for example, if you have $500 per year coverage for insurance, and your therapist charges, say, $125 per session, and your scope of work is for childhood trauma, understand that maybe half of this will be to develop your therapy alliance with your therapist and provide history, scope of work—assuming you have your basic functioning down and you are ready for deeper work—and half of this can be used for reprocessing. So you have to make sure you are very clear from the onset that you are going to therapy to resolve childhood trauma and relay this to your therapist. Additionally, you are picking a therapist that has tools and methods that effectively and efficiently resolve trauma in two sessions. Some modalities I have found very efficient in processing trauma, by the way, are: psychodynamic therapy, EMDR therapy, and IFS therapy.

Summary

💖 So we are clearly outlining the importance for preparation for therapy, this very much is and includes the need for basic functioning and emotional readiness. 

🦋As therapy is a skill that requires patience and practice, we need to feel good in our bodies to helps us be open to new experiences. Overall, hopefully instills a thoughtful perspective on the therapeutic process.

🌸 I hope this message is clear and addresses the importance of being realistic about resources and scope in therapy. 

🌻I provide practical examples to illustrate your points, highlighting the need for a solid foundation before delving into deeper issues. 

🌼 I mention specific trauma therapy modalities.

Lee Park, RCT-C, MA, BHons
www.canadaonlinetherapy.com

Art Credit: Huang Xiao B's, Bubu, and Dudu.

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