Traditional talk therapy is extremely beneficial for people wanting to:

• Understand yourself better

• Develop coping skills

• Label and identify feelings and emotions in order to better manage and regulate emotions

• Identify and change ineffective and problematic thoughts and behaviors

• Establish and maintain boundaries

• Decrease codependent tendencies such as: people pleasing, difficulty saying “No”, and unbalanced caretaking

• Challenge cognitive distortions such as: catastrophizing, all-or-nothing thinking, “should” statements, jumping to conclusions, and discrediting the positive