Resilience

Resilience is often defined as the ability to respond and adapt well to adversity. Many mistakenly believe that resilience is something innate – either one has it or not. In fact, resilience is a dynamic process that develops over time and across the life span. 

We may have little influence over some factors influencing resilience (how we were raised, ways caregivers modeled coping strategies, impact of challenging life events, etc.); however, the ways we learn, adapt and make meaning out of these experiences is key to how resilience changes over time. 

I frequently discover that people have far more resilience than they think. People too often minimize their resilience and capacity to learn, adapt, and make meaning out of their lives. These strengths within can be accessed and fortified as a part of regular psychotherapy. 

Fostering resilience is just as an important part of psychotherapy as processing stressful and traumatic life events. In fact, we can face these struggles better if attention is paid to strengthening self-worth, confidence and flexibility. 

In my psychotherapy with you, we will discover and grow your resilience. As you peruse my website and learn more about my different treatment approaches, you will see a variety of options for us to partner in this process.

Whether we are developing your healthy adult mode in schema therapy, your ego-strength in clinical hypnosis, your ability to discern mental states in yourself and others in mentalization-based therapy, or your agency to assert emotional needs in attachment-based family therapy – we will be collaborating on strengthening resilience.