8 February 2024

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Welcome to the cloud?

It’s not rare for someone, whether or not they’ve been in therapy before, to feel as if they don’t know where to start. What to talk about first? Do we jump into childhood stuff or unload about the so-called “small stuff” that’s been piling up.

While there are certainly sessions that focus on That One Important Topic, it’s not rare for a client to come in with a cloud of things jockeying for position in their head. There may not be a Thing but rather a collection or a constellation of things — no one piece that, on its own, seems concerning, but a host of things that make for a muddled perspective. Often in this case it can be relieving to lay everything out on the table so that we can see the myriad of moving pieces going on in our life. And, as balls on a pool table, you and I can look at these issues from different angles and see how best to approach them.

It’s a busy world out there and, especially with added stress from exterior things such as social media and frayed relationships, it can be hard to make sense of it all, let alone figure out our priorities. Therapy can help recognize patterns of behaviour and ways in which we might prioritize (or de-prioritize) things that might not be healthy.