INNER HUMANISM - Unlocking Happiness

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If you are experiencing unhappiness in your relationships, you can receive help aimed at unlocking happiness through the advances of INNER HUMANISM:
INDIVIDUALLY TAILORED PSYCHOTHERAPY: In Inner Humanism Psychotherapy you will be cared for as a unique individual, and your psychotherapy will be tailored to your needs and comfort level. Your Psychotherapist will get to know you and the specific concerns and difficulties you experience in your relationships, along with the changes you want to make. Your psychotherapy will be based entirely on the goals you set.

CHANGE ON BOTH PRACTICAL AND DEEPER LEVELS: Inner Humanism
Psychotherapy works simultaneously on both a practical level to help you make changes in your feelings and behavior in your daily life, and on a deeper level to help with the source of the unhappiness. Since this dual objective goes beyond correcting thoughts, beliefs and understanding to benefit your ongoing inner well-being and core feelings about yourself and others, change is intended to be deep and long-lasting. The overall aim of Inner Humanism Psychotherapy is to bring about higher levels of functioning based on a foundation of pleasurable inner well-being that includes an experience of being a valuable, worthy, lovable and loving person, capable of having loving relationships.

CHANGE OCCURS NATURALLY WITHIN THE PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP: In Inner Humanism Psychotherapy, change on both practical and deeper levels is nurtured through a natural process within the psychothera- peutic relationship, and in most cases, does not require the use of medication. Within a caring psychotherapeutic relationship your in-born, positive feelings and abilities are increasingly unlocked and strengthened.

INNER ROADBLOCKS TO CHANGE: An Inner Humanism Psychotherapist can provide a unique understanding and way of helping you work on overcoming what is getting in the way of your being able to create the closeness in relationships you really want. When you haven't been able to change relationship patterns, yourself, it is usually because you're coming up against inner roadblocks that are resisting the changes you're trying hard to make. Whether you are unknowingly selecting relationships or participating in relationship patterns that aren’t making you truly happy, an Inner Humanism Psychotherapist can help you understand these patterns and how they developed, as well as help you overcome the ways in which these patterns make it harder for you to build deeply satisfying relationships.
CHANGE IS TWO STEPS FORWARD, ONE STEP BACKWARD: Inner
Humanism has identified that psychological change always involves a dynamic process of moving two steps forward followed by one step backward. When you make progress in feeling better or engaging in behaviors or patterns you like, the inner roadblocks that have been holding you back, push back and resist the changes you’re trying hard to make. Progress is followed by temporary setbacks when you fall back on old, familiar, painful feelings, behaviors or habits. Without help, these setbacks are discouraging and often derail efforts to change feelings and behavior. An example is when an adult, teen or child works hard at creating more family harmony, and then slips back and engages in a day of arguing that increases distance. Inner Humanism Psychotherapists have specialized expertise in understanding the cause of these setbacks, along with expertise in helping you turn these inevitable setbacks into opportunities for further growth.

For information on INNER HUMANISM COUPLES PSYCHOTHERAPY, see Types of Services.

YOUR TEEN OR CHILD: If you are looking for help for your teen or child who is experiencing unhappiness in relationships in the family, at school, or with friends, the same Inner Humanism advances and age-appropriate goals for change, on both practical and deeper levels, apply to psychotherapy with these age groups. Certain specially trained Inner Humanism Psychotherapists offer psychotherapy tailored to the developmental needs of teens and children of all ages.

For information on INNER HUMANISM PSYCHOTHERAPY for TEENS and CHILDREN, and INNER HUMANISM PARENT COUNSELING, see Types of Services.

You can learn more about the background story of who developed this psychotherapy approach, a great Chicago story, as well as the theory behind the approach, by clicking on the link, What is Inner Humanism? and visiting the pages who developed it and why? and how does it address unhappiness and unlock happiness?