Welcome to Seedling Psychology
At Seedling Psychological Services, we provide psychological support and therapy to people of all ages:
- who are struggling with emotional and interpersonal problems;
- to heal from emotional pain and start to reconnect with own peace within oneself.
Philosophy
We believe that all human beings need to connect with love, trust and hope. The power of these connections are the healing tools for all problems in life. Moving towards becoming a more fully human who lives an abundance life.
How working with a therapist is different from talking to a friend
People tend to think that talking to a therapist is as the same as talking to a friend, and more importantly they do not need to pay talking to a friend. However, it is important to recognize that therapy is not the same as friendship because:
Therapy is confidential
Therapist is ethically obligated to keep information discussed during a therapy session private and confidential unless you tell your therapist that you have active plans to hurt yourself, to hurt other people or you’re still being abused by others.
Therapy comes with clear boundaries
Therapist is only available to you for a time should it be needed. It is usually scheduled to take place on a specific day and time in the therapist’s office.
In therapy, the attention is solely on you.
A therapist’s job it to help to get you to where you want to be. Therefore, you do not need to feel bad about talking too much or too little or feel guilty that too much attention is on you. The hour belongs to you.
Therapists are professionally trained
A good and responsible therapist will learn continuously to increase their professional effectiveness. Therapists are trained in dealing with cognitive and emotional blockages as well as dealing with how past issues could have affected the client to present.
Therapy comes with clear boundaries.
Therapy is usually scheduled to take place on a specific day and a specify time in the therapist’s office. Therapist is only available to you for a time should it be needed.
When do you need to seek help?
Basically, when you want to make significant changes in your life due to:
- Strained relationships (i.e., problems with spouse, parent-children conflict …)
- Feeling “not yourself”
- Significant distress in life
- Constant worry, anxiety (i.e., panic attack, phobia) and unexplained fear
- Feel more restless, irritable, on edge, jumpy or high strung
- Sad or negative mood
- Frequent outburst of anger
- Inability to cope with daily activities
- Cutting or self-harm behaviours
- Changes on eating or sleeping habits
- Using unhealthy behaviours (drugs, alcohol, food or sex) to relax
- Traumatized events
- Suicidal thoughts or wishes
- You can’t talk to your friends or family about what’s going on
- Your friends or family are tired of listening to you
- Your friends or family have told you that they concerned about you
- You have physical symptoms that can’t be explained by medical tests (i.e., stomach pain)
- You want to understand yourself better
- Nothing you have tried seemed to have helped