How Do Psychologists See Our Patients?

The majority of people who come for consultation do so driven by internal needs for improvement promoted by states of instability. Patients who come to therapy usually do so when they are close to losing control, hitting rock bottom. That is when psychologists realize the great strength and value of these people, who instead of getting lost in excuses they confront themselves.

Despite the many clichés and society’s ignorance of the functions of psychologists, patients face therapy seeing in it an opportunity to relocate their lives. They will have to learn to unlearn the behaviors, habits and thoughts that have gotten them there.

I want to make the patients who come to the consultation known as brave people with a great sense of responsibility towards themselves, not as the “crazy” that a society full of ignorance and fear insists on selling us.

Psychologists do not give advice, we do therapy

If you need advice, go to your best friend, partner or family, they know you better than anyone to advise you. But if you need someone to explain your behavior and why you feel this way, choosing the techniques and the appropriate treatment for your personal characteristics,  then that is when you will have to go to  a psychologist.

We are well aware of how difficult it is to make the decision to make an appointment with a psychologist. Therefore, we always try to give as much information as possible from the beginning and we try that during therapy the person knows exactly what we are working on and why.

For psychologists, it is very gratifying when we appreciate, after having worked through so many thoughts and emotions that hurt the person, that we can now exercise control over them. When this happens, the patient feels much better, begins to do more activities, approaches problem situations from another perspective and is able to filter his thoughts to see them in a much more objective way.

We are convinced that many people would take the step of asking for psychological help if they saw the results that are achieved, both personally and socially.

We learn with our patients

As any good teacher would, our patients teach us by example. It is necessary to clarify what it means for us that our patients teach us. In fact, when we tell a patient how much we admire him for his bravery or for his decision, a look of perplexity and astonishment arises in him or her, as if he does not believe that he is also teaching us.