Why Do People Go to Therapy?

Are you thinking of going to therapy? People usually come to me for therapy for one or more of the following reasons:

 
• An important relationship is falling apart
• Their job or career is stuck, in crisis or unfulfilling
• They feel like they themselves are falling apart

Unfortunately, you can’t usually put things back together the way they were. But I can tell you this: If we work together, what will emerge will be stronger and more solid than what you had before.

 My name is Larry Letich. For two decades I’ve been helping people find the answers to the most difficult and painful problems they face, and have helped them make lasting positive changes in their lives and relationships to become happier, more productive, and more fulfilled. 

Below the reasons I’ve mentioned is another, deeper reason for coming to therapy, one which you may only be partly aware of. At some point in your life, you lost confidence in your ability to create a life that gives you pleasure and happiness.

For some people, this loss of confidence happened only recently. For others, it may have happened when they were 20. Or 12. Or three. Or even younger.

Whenever it was, we need to find that spark, that tiny shoot that still lives within you that says I know what I want out of life, I can get what I need to be happy, and nurture it along, until you feel that your feelings, and your life, work for you rather than against you.

I work with women, men and couples of all ages and types. But in addition, I’ve developed a few special areas of interest, listed in the navigation bar to the left. These are working with anxiety and depression; working with writers and other creative people, as I am a writer myself; working with sexual compulsions and sexual identity confusion; working with men in therapy; and working with people who’ve struggled with underachievement. If one or more of those categories fits you, then please read what I have to say about it on the corresponding web page.

Therapy is many things, but at its heart, it’s a special kind of relationship, and a special type of conversation. At its best, it’s a process not of fixing what you are, but of discovering, and valuing, more and more of who you are.

You know the stories of people discovering that some discarded, unimpressive object found in the attic is a rare and valuable antique? Therapy offers the opportunity to discover that in the closet of your psyche, underneath all the hurt and junk, what you threw out many years ago as useless or hurtful about yourself is in fact a source of treasure.

If you want to stop hurting and feel better about yourself and your life; if you want to trust what you know, feel and want, and become the person you want to be and know that you truly are; or if you want you and your spouse to get to the heart of what’s driving you apart, and re-connect and find the love that brought you together in the first place, then email me or call me at 240 315-8100.

 I look forward to working with you!

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