Psychotherapy treats any problem that is mentally- or emotionally-based.

For best results, some key factors need to be present:

• Motivation:  Psychotherapy works best when you are ready and willing to look at yourself and how you live your life in relation to others and the world around you.
  • If you are not prepared to challenge yourself, your beliefs, and your behaviors at this time, psychotherapy may not provide you with your desired results
  • Psychotherapy can greatly assist you in getting to the root of the reason why you may not be willing to look at yourself critically.
  • One of the primary goals in psychotherapy is to understand your defense mechanisms and to explore their origin and their purpose in your life.

• Insight:  Psychotherapy works best the more self-understanding you possess.  
  • Insight, self-awareness, self-understanding, and self-knowledge are primary treatment factors in psychotherapy.
  • Your success in psychotherapy will depend on your ability to move from intellectual insight (a theoretical understanding of your condition) to emotional insight (the true, deep understanding of yourself).

• Growth:  Psychotherapy works best when you can recognize inhibitors to your growth and work through them. 
  • If you are surrounded by people (e.g., friends, family) who restrict your growth, you will experience a great deal of tension as a result of your inevitable growth through psychotherapy. 
  • When discussed in the therapy setting, these points of tension can serve as valuable opportunities for you to begin asserting healthier boundaries with those around you.

• Commitment:  Psychotherapy works best when you commit to the process. 
  • Attending psychotherapy sessions regularly (typically once a week) will keep your new internalized "objective self-observer" on task so that you can apply your new insights and ways of relating to others on a regular basis.

• Practice:  Psychotherapy works best when you can practice new behaviors in a safe, therapeutic environment. 
  • As a sub-process of your psychotherapy experience, you will learn new ways of relating and experiencing yourself in relation to others in real time with Dr. Gale.