What is psychology for?

Going to a psychologist should not be the last resort to take care of our mental health.

When they come to the consultation, 75% of my clients have been waiting until the last moment to take the step of consulting a psychologist.

The last moment is the one where the person is so exhausted from suffering that he or she no longer has the amount of energy necessary to carry out the strategy that the psychologist offers to solve the problem that has led him or her to consult.

Why don't people go to a psychologist?

To this day, only 25% of people go to a psychologist as a preventive measure..

It is in this percentage of 75% that we find the people who will develop a disorder as a consequence of enduring the stressful situation for too long a period of time.

That is to say, the set of symptoms sustained over time results in a symptomatic encystation that is called a disorder.

What are disorders?

Disorders are sets of symptoms that have a duration of more than three months and which have already been installed in the functioning system of the person.

When I ask people who come for consultation why they have waited so long to do so, the answers I receive are in the following order..... "I wanted to do it by myself", "I didn't want to ask for help, since I have never needed to do it"..., "I don't like to tell my problems to a stranger"..., etc.

In other words, all of them are answers that denote static beliefs and the presence of skepticism.The result is that they do not dare to trust the professional regarding emotional issues, nor in their own improvement... perhaps at that moment they don't even believe they can be helped.

What is the point of going to a psychologist?

After a first visit, the psychologist ceases to become a stranger and after the initial staging of the professional's skills such as empathy, understanding and active listening, it is then that it happens to occupy a place of reference and relevance in the personal development of the person who consults.

The psychology serves to save time to the person.

Psychology and the psychologist allow a person to think, during a limited period of time of his life, in a methodical way, and to dedicate himself to assessing his own personal development.and to dedicate himself to evaluate, together with a specialist in personal growth, what is happening in his environment and in himself, identifying symptoms, problems and looking for the best way to solve conflicts that in the course of the client's life have appeared more or less recently.

Psychology allows you to resolve emotional distress more quickly.

The simple fact of ordering thoughts and emotions with a mental health professional, clarifies enough to begin to glimpse some hope in the face of discomfort.

Subsequently, the planning and decision about the circumstances that are occurring and that must be modified, this time with success, in the life of the person who consults, will end up reorganizing the discomfort in a short space of time.

Thinking is one of the most difficult jobs that exist, as Henry Ford said, to this task you have to dedicate time and effort, and it also requires creativity. However, creativity is a capacity that can be perfectly trained.

That is why doing the work of thinking, in a moment of mental saturation or stress, becomes an unattainable task.

Accompanying, guiding

When a client comes to the consultation of a psychologist looking for the solution to get out of the state in which he is, what the psychologist will prescribe will not be able to be applied yet, because the strength of the patient in relation to his capacities are diminished.

During the number of sessions that the person needs, the psychologist must accompany the client until he/she is able to recover his/her abilities.The psychologist and the client should work together until the client is able to recover his abilities and skills, and from there generate together, psychologist and client, the expectation that improvement is a possible and probable option.

This absence of expectation is inherent to the client's current situation, it is part of the psychologist's job to increase this expectation and initiate a process of personal improvement, which resolves the client's situation, much earlier than it would have been, without the application of psychology to their circumstances.

With the psychologist, the solutions are developed before.