Jeff Levy, LCSW
Mental Health, Relationships, Trauma, Identity
2/13/2019 0 Comments This Is Going To HurtOriginally Published on Branching Out: The Live Oak Blog, February 2018 No one wants to feel pain. At least that’s true for most of us. In fact, a good number of us make the decision to enter psychotherapy to alleviate pain. As a therapist, I’ve also been in the position of wanting to support my clients in easing the pain they are feeling. I’m still not so sure that’s an unrealistic goal. What I have learned, however, is that the way to assuage one kind of pain often requires that we feel another. No one necessarily signs up for this.
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1/6/2019 0 Comments When Will I Be Happy?Jeff Levy, LCSW (originally posted on Branching Out: The Live Oak Blog, January 2014) When will this be over? When will I stop dealing with this? Why does this keep happening to me? When will I finally be happy?”
These are some of the questions I am most frequently asked as people begin working with me. For those of us who have experienced loss, grief, and other forms of trauma, these questions may feel especially salient. And when we have engaged in multiple courses of therapy, our desire for final resolution may feel even more powerful. 1/6/2019 0 Comments I Can't Keep Going Like ThisJeff Levy, LCSW (originally posted on Branching Out: The Live Oak Blog, April 2015) One of the premises underlying the work we do is our desire to help. Implicit in the idea of helping is improving concrete life conditions or increasing the experience of happiness or peace in someone’s internal landscape. Helping means feeling better. If that is one of the most basic premises underlying the work we do, how do we respond when someone expresses a desire not to live?
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