Increasing Your Chances of Success in Individual Therapy: Helpful Tips from a Mental Health Counselor: What You Can do to Get the Most Out Of Counseling, Before, During, and After You Go

Increasing Your Chances of Success in Individual Therapy; Helpful Tips from a Mental Health Counselor: What You Can do to Get the Most Out Of Counseling, Before, During, and After You Go is a simple-to-read and easy-to-understand guide, that answers those questions clients want to ask about counselors and therapy: What should you expect when you go to therapy? What do you need to know about therapy that will help you be successful? How can you increase your chances of making counseling or psychotherapy work for you? Are there ways to maximize the work you do in your counseling sessions? What will your therapist expect of you? Author Diane Menke Pence, LMHC, NCC, MS, MSEd, offers straightforward information about understanding what therapy is and is not, exploring your counselor options, contacting a therapist for the first time, filling out paperwork, preparing for and going to the first psychotherapy session, dealing with diagnosis, working with your therapist to improve your counseling effectiveness, understanding your role and the role of the counselor, using the time between counseling session to improve your chances of success, ending therapy, and following up with your counselor afterward. Counselors and the therapy process itself is demystified. The book is packed full of some of the most useful hints, tips, and ideas to improve every aspect of counseling. There’s no fluff here, just simple, clear, insightful ideas to improve the therapy process from start to finish. If you’re new to therapy, this book is a great resource, inspiration, and comfort. But even if you’ve been in therapy in the past, or are thinking of going again, it gives you great insights into how to improve the work you do with your counselor and increase your chances for effective, successful therapy. Even counselors will love this book for the help it gives their clients in improving their therapy partnership and encouraging positive communication between counselor and client. It’s easy to understand, short enough to read in one sitting but detailed enough to provide a true guide throughout the entire process of therapy. It could help make the difference between having satisfactory or good therapy, and having really great therapy and can empower those who go to therapy to make the most of every session.