Wellness Counseling

Do You Feel At A Loss For Answers For Your Mental Health?

Are you dealing with depression, anxiety, addiction, or relationship issues? Do you feel empty and lost, like you haven’t lived up to your fullest potential? Have you sought treatment many times and never received the care you needed?

Maybe you’ve tried counseling, medication, and other interventions for years, all to no avail. Your frustration never seems to end and your mental health feels stuck. As a result, you may feel like it’s useless to even try to improve your life. Yet as hopeless as you feel, part of you still longs for answers and wants to find a treatment that actually works for you.

Depression And Anxiety Can Make It Hard To Work On Self-Improvement

When your mental health is struggling, it’s easy to think you have to feel better before taking toward self-improvement. Once you feel better, you may tell yourself, everything will be okay. After all, right now you may feel too depressed or anxious to know what steps to take.

Here at Wilmington Psychotherapy, our goal is to help you figure out what those steps will be. We believe that our approach to wellness counseling can help you experience peace in your mind, body, spirit, and every area of your life.

Our Culture Values External Success Over Internal Growth

Americans struggle with mental health issues at an alarming rate. Yet at the same time, old and outdated beliefs about health and success are still prevalent. American society has a “pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps” attitude towards mental health issues, viewing them as a sign of weakness or self-pity. And traditional western medical models tend to focus on symptoms rather than root causes, failing to address the deeper struggles in people’s lives.

Additionally, we live in a culture that’s obsessed with external measures of success. We’re taught to pursue money, power, and fame instead of personal growth. As a result, many people are so focused on external success that they feel empty inside and their lives lack meaning and purpose.

Wellness therapy is a chance to connect with what gives your life meaning and tap into the rich inner worlds that lie within you. This is a time to drown out all the voices clamoring for your attention and become more centered in who you are.

Counseling Can Help You Achieve Wellness In Every Area Of Your Life

Wellness is a broad concept. That’s why counseling varies from person to person—what wellness means to you is different from what it means to someone else. Ultimately, we like to think of wellness as health in many dimensions of life—emotional, physical, spiritual, social, environmental, occupational, and intellectual.

In counseling with us, you can expect a warm environment of hospitality and compassion while having assurance of expert care. Your commitment to the therapeutic relationship will provide you with insight and a new direction that you may not have enjoyed from efforts in the past. If you’ve been to therapy before and it didn’t help, we want to know what didn’t work for you and what you want to do differently.

What To Expect In Sessions

One of the first things we like to ask is: What is your idea of wellness? This can help us figure out what areas of your life you want to work on most. We want to hone in on the sources of your challenges and identify any unresolved trauma so that you can achieve deep-rooted healing in your life.

A lot of health and wellness counseling is about focusing on what you can control instead of what you can’t. It’s so easy to get hung up on external measures of success and worry about what’s going on outside of you. Wellness counseling is about looking inward and asking how you can respond to your stressors in a healthy and mindful way. It’s also a time to evaluate your coping mechanisms and ask yourself if they need to be updated to meet your current needs.

Our Approach Is Down-To-Earth, Caring, And Compassionate

All of us here at Wilmington Psychotherapy have decades of personal experience with wellness plans that changed our lives. We are down-to-earth, caring, and compassionate with ourselves and others. We are neither judging nor shaming. Our mission is to provide you with the knowledge you need to understand and personalize your health journey and unlock your inner power.

We’ve worked with people from a wide range of socioeconomic situations and backgrounds and we’ve helped numerous people who’d only been disappointed with therapy in the past. Our team has a strong ability to relate to people and put them at ease even in the worst of circumstances. We are confident that we can do the same for you.

Above all, we encourage you to be patient with yourself and understand that progress is what matters, not perfection. The smallest changes can have profound results as long as you give yourself time to heal.

You May Have Some Questions About Wellness Counseling…

I have too much on my plate to bother with counseling.

We hear you. Your time is precious and we don’t want you to be too busy to enjoy your life. That’s why we offer flexible scheduling and a customized treatment plan that works with your lifestyle. You can do online therapy and you can even do monthly or biweekly sessions if you’d like.

It seems impossible to maintain any kind of lifestyle change.

It’s easy to feel that way when you’re leaning on your own strength. But when you have a compassionate and caring wellness counselor working with you, making lifestyle changes is not as painstaking. What’s more, you don’t need to feel motivated to change your outlook and behavior. You can learn to implement small steps toward your goals regardless of how you feel.

I’ve been to counseling before and it didn’t work.

Lots of clients who come to us have been to therapy before. That’s normal. If you had a negative experience with counseling, we want to know what we can do differently. You get to personalize your treatment plan. Besides, we all have lots of personal and professional experience that we can draw from. We’ve all had our struggles and we’re known for our ability to relate to people from all walks of life.

Let Us Help You Fulfill Your True Potential

If you want to renew your sense of hope and unlock your true potential, we encourage you to pursue wellness counseling with us. To get started, you can call 910-777-1189 for a free, 15-minute phone consultation. You can also email us or use the online scheduling system to book your first session.