My reasons have really changed over the last few years since I started. Initially I went to my first therapist because I was severely depressed and wasn't functioning well at home or at work. I needed help with getting out of my marriage--didn't know how to do it and was terrified. She helped somewhat with depression but not the marriage. Went to second T to help me get unstuck from proceeding forward in life. He did trauma work with me and helped get me unstuck and helped me through the end of the marriage. He has helped me learn to recognize what feelings I have, to be able to express them better, and to take some risks in revealing them. I am still working on this feeling stuff! He is also helping me be a better communicator--more direct and honest, and checking with people before making negative assumptions about what they are thinking.

Now I continue to go to therapy because I am not all I can be. I have more potential to be even healthier, more functional, and happier. My therapist helps me with things that come up in my life. Like right now, he is helping me to deal with the end of life time for my parents. He helps a lot with my relationships and how to have healthy, deeper, and more satisfying ones--still working on this too! I also continue to go to therapy because I really like my relationship with my therapist and I don't want to give that up. He "gets" me and helps me. I'm moving forward and becoming happier. I have a lot of things yet to work on. Plus, I find the mind and psychotherapy really interesting. I am learning to be more transparent to myself.