What might you gain from a group therapy experience?

Therapy adds tools or abilities to the toolbox you use to maintain and repair your life and relationships. Every person's experience is different but here are some of the tools that people have reported they had because of being in therapy:

• More self-confidence—Less self-consciousness
• Ability to connect with people who are important to you
• Feel more comfortable with people and when you're alone
• Like yourself more
• Take risks to do things you want to try
• Have more fun
• Feel more relaxed
• Avoid behaviors and relationships that just aren’t good for you
• Forgive yourself - Forgive others
• Take responsibility for your actions and moods
• Have reasonable expectations for yourself and others
• Greater ability to identify feelings and larger feeling/emotional vocabulary
• Greater overall ability to be in control of negative emotions
• Ability to give and receive compliments more comfortably
• Enjoy yourself
• More comfortable socializing with friends and co-workers
• Ask for help when it would be useful to you
• Discuss your feelings and attitudes more easily
• Trust people when they are clearly trustworthy
• Better able listen when people you care about are talking
• Ability to accept others’ mistakes and poor behavior as a problem they must deal with
• Take better care of yourself

Adapted from Together We Heal:
A Real-Life Portrait of Recovery in Group Therapy.
by Szifra Birke and Kathy Mayer

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