Therapy is a space, physical or virtual, that you can enter when you have a problem and need help - when you are dealing with a crisis; when you’ve reached a crossroads and need to decide where to turn; or when some deeper issue is troubling you, perhaps echoing something unresolved from your past.

Therapy is a space that you can enter when you’re feeling stuck - when your usual ways of coping with the world have stopped serving you truthfully and effectively, or worse, when they’ve turned against you and have become part of the problem, forcing you to find a new way to break out, move forward.

Therapy is a space that you can enter when you want to change but don’t know where to start, when you want to change but fear the change, or when you want to change but have become too attached to old beliefs about yourself in order to truly, meaningfully, change.

In all it’s variations, therapy is always a space that you can enter in order to talk about yourself. Speaking often produces a liberating effect that is quickly felt. In the longer term, it could lead to a real change.

Yet therapy is not just a space. It is also the time - the time that you dedicate to examine your life. And, most importantly, it is also a relationship. There is another person in that space, listening to you carefully, curiously, without judgement.

That person is the therapist.