Change Maker - Catalysts of Change:
How Psychotherapy Facilitates Transformative Life Shifts
Change Maker
The Envision Yourself Series
It’s Your Time Now
Dr. Matthew G. Mandelbaum, PhD
Psychologist
As a change maker, you can engage in psychotherapy to cultivate your potential and gain new tools to expand your knowledge, skills, and abilities.
You can learn how to practice these psychological tools in and out of therapy to implement viable plans that meet goals.
As you practice, you reinforce your capacity
to meet challenges, handle obstacles, and reach success.
Envisioning yourself as a change maker
provides motivation to make lasting behavioral change.
Changes in your behavior can improve your day-to-day experiences, along with
short- and long-term goals.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for.
We are the change that we seek.
- Barack Obama
We are change agents. Change begins with the courage to believe that the power and effectiveness lies from within. Through psychotherapy, we seek to gain change by assessing and asserting our own inner freedom. We blend this freedom with interdependence to find ourselves in the community.
We can reduce our feelings of isolation and improve our interest in being part of the fabric of society by learning means to productively use our talents in ways that can be helpful to ourselves and others. We can reduce the effects of negative thinking and negative emotions. We can improve our capacities to make that which we seek into reality.
As change makers in psychotherapy, I offer you high praise and extreme respect for taking on the processs.
When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.
- Roy E Disney
A role in therapy is to clarify values and make sure that our actions and transactions meet these values. When there is harmony between values and actions, we feel validated. We understand our agency and look towards making improvements.
When there is a lack of connection between our transactions and our values we can feel upset at the discord. We can learn to handle this frustration and help eliminate the discord. Doing so improves our agency.
Knowing how to regulate during these moments distress is as important as why these have happened in the past. Often, the means to regulate allows the person to calm down enough in the service of problem solving for change.
As change makers, we seek to be able to support ourselves in all of these situations. We learn how to self regulate and how to problem solve so that we can reach our goals.
I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets.
But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen.
The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.
- Kevin Costner
It is easier to change how we think and feel about the records of ourselves and others than changing the records themselves.
Radically accepting how our lives have unfolded can offer us a sense of calm and increase our spirit towards forging a new beginning. The past will not go away. However, when we put the past in its place and recognize its lessons, we can enjoy the present movement.
As change makers, we can work towards fulfillment. We can work to understand what is enough for now and plan for what may be needed in the future.
What will happen in therapy?
Change making is an important operation. In psychotherapy, making change comes with a solid relationship with your psychologist. With mindful effort, you put the pieces of your life into a viable configuration. The progress you make is yours to own. As peacekeepers and philanthropists for ourselves, we learn how to give ourselves that which we need.
We increase our growing understanding of our place in the world for ourselves and for each other. Through psychotherapy, we learn to hear ourselves and merge our virtues and our acts with clarity. In our own enterprise, with gusto, we become our own champions. We are agents. We are champions who can think, feel, do, and be.
Psychotherapy can help you become gain increased interest and investment in yourself and the world.
You can have improved knowledge, skills, and abilities to make good things happen.
You can learn to manifest your potential to improve your life.
I would be happy to talk to you further.
Clients who work with me have found that psychotherapy can be fun, relieving, and empowering. They have enjoyed learning and apply skills to multiple areas of their lives. I know that journey is yours. The experiences and tools belong to you. I seek to help you on the journey of self-discovery in order that you can improve your agency and your impact.
My aim is to improve your capacities as a sensitive, intelligent person, to fortify your capability to build your sense of self, to help you make meaning of your experience, to grow your wisdom, and to give you tools so that you can function in many aspects of the world.
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