5 answers to questions about therapy and 1 chicken.
1. Why talk to a therapist? Here is a more important question: Why invest money and time in therapy? Why not just binge watch fun short videos on whichever social media app is trending right now? After all, the host of the videos is often cute and good looking.
Admittedly, at Maverick Insights Counseling, the therapists are not former models or movie stars, so this is a fair question and possible criticism. One of our licensed therapists will interact with you and respond to you better than social media. To be fair to our non-AI team members, who will not react to your questions and stories with an automated response resulting from a computer generated data bank. As a fellow human, our team members will interact with you like you are a human, and provide you with content, I mean, conversation, for longer than 90 seconds.
2. Why on Earth would anyone pay someone to have a conversation with them?
Yes, this is also a fair question. With billions of people on the planet, and many others speaking the same language as you, why spend money and time having a conversation with, or talking to a therapist? A therapist is not your friend, or your neighbor, or your spouse. A therapist is not going to follow you home and remind you to take the trash out or bring up that one time you visited the haunted hotel just so you could use the snack machine and purchase your favorite candy that no one else in town will stock. No, our team members will not shame you or judge you. We will be legitimately curious about said snack machine, but unless bringing it up helps you heal from what you asked us to help you with, we will sit and marinate in the unknown on that one. Instead, we will gently guide conversations into a space where you can exist and be your best self, help guide you into a path of healing, and get to the root of your concerns so that you can begin to feel better and more confident.
3. All this sounds like a bunch of hocus pocus. Words are not this powerful. What’s the gimmick?
Another great question. There is no gimmick at Maverick Insights Counseling. We like to think we are very creative people, but our savvy therapy skills were crafted after years of training, education, and practice. Everyone on our team has years of experience working with folks with mental health issues and we use these skills to continue to help people work towards living a life they are proud of and enjoy. We do not follow some structured (and boring) standardized session format where everyone who visits us leaves with worksheets and homework, unless that’s your thing, and if it is, we’ve got plenty. We know the power of listening and for us, therapy is much more than just feelings and buzzwords.
4. Will therapy fix my feelings?
Okay, first of all, there probably is nothing wrong with you that needs to be fixed. However, if you are being weighed down by emotions and are struggling with overwhelming feelings, then therapy is one way to address these concerns. Therapy can help you and empower you to tackle and manage overwhelming or unwanted feelings through interventions and skill building.
5. Ok, but do I have to tell the therapist everything?
No, of course not. In a therapy session, you can share as much or as little as you would like. Have a favorite spot in town that is so wonderful that no matter the weather outside or time of day you always feel good when you visit? Awesome. Want to keep that to yourself and never tell your curious therapist? Also awesome. We will survive without this amazing knowledge (and forgive you for wanting to keep it to yourself.) Typically, the more you share, the more a person gets out of therapy sessions, but you know yourself best. We are just here to help you achieve your mental health goals, even if it means admitting that the therapist across town is actually a better fit for your concerns. We want you to achieve success. We will share with you resources to help you on your journey, and we will provide a listening ear for however much or how little you want to share with us.
Show me the chicken.
Yes, it is promised in the title.
Here it is.
One Chicken….
