People come to psychotherapy in order to extend their knowledge about themselves and/or during a crisis in their lives. Psychotherapists will ask ‘why therapy now?’ which may lead to a better understanding of crises. Something may have happened that makes the ongoing journey of life difficult. Friends and family may not be as useful as perhaps they were before. The psychotherapist is trained to understand these issues. If their training was good, they will have had psychotherapy themselves to understand the process better.
Psychotherapy is a process. If you can believe that all living organisms require a cocoon in order to transform and become more functional, then therapy can be that cocoon. You may receive an understanding of yourself from a psychological viewpoint than a moral or social one. Besides this, the toxic qualities in social relationships may become less so and one might find it easier to manage internal conflict.
The well known psychologist Sigmund Freud said that the goal of psychotherapy was to help human beings love and work. This remains the goal of all psychotherapy modalities.
