Doing 'work' in therapy.

[Shahronak]

Therapy can result in significant changes in a person’s life. Often though these changes involve small steps; they don’t happen all at once. Sometimes it takes a few sessions to work out where you would like to be in the future. Given the large number of therapy approaches available and the varied reasons people seek therapy, it is impossible here to specify all of the areas in which people experience these changes. However, there are some broad areas in which people experience some positive change that can be taken as a sign that therapy is working:

Mood/or emotion (such as more happiness, less anxiety)
Behaviors (decrease in unwanted habits, or increases in being assertive),
Thoughts (less negative thoughts, more realistic thoughts)
Relationships (getting on with a partner better, less arguments)
Diagnosis (no longer clinically depressed or phobic)
Life satisfaction (feeling like you’re getting more out of life)
Quality of life (better able to work, socialise)