Why would starting online psychological therapy be beneficial for achieving your New Year’s resolutions? Here are several important points to consider:
- Maximize Your Chances of Achieving Your Goals
For many people in Puerto Rico, it is a tradition to welcome the New Year with something new and a list of resolutions. Studies indicate that when people use significant events or dates as time markers, a “fresh start effect” is generated, which serves as motivation to set and pursue goals.
These studies suggest that using specific days or moments in time as a context helps individuals make decisions that maximize their chances of achieving their goals. Therefore, making New Year’s resolutions can enhance your ability to accomplish your objectives.
Through psychological therapy, you can receive support to overcome self-sabotage, stagnation, and fear when facing challenges. You will be able to recognize your potential and gain the necessary tools to achieve your action plan.
- Identify Needs and Create an Action Plan
Struggling to achieve goals is common. Sometimes, it can even be confusing to clearly define what those goals are. Psychological therapy provides a safe space to identify what you need and how to manage it in a healthy way.
Through therapy, you can receive support in assessing your emotional, mental, and other resources and develop an action plan to healthily meet your needs.
- Strengthen Your Physical and Emotional Health
Psychological therapy can be beneficial for your physical health. Taking care of your mental health and managing stress in a healthy way helps prevent physical and mental health issues.
Healthy stress management strengthens the immune system, helps maintain blood pressure at healthy levels, and improves the quality and duration of sleep. Adequate sleep supports the body’s repair processes.
Therapy helps you prioritize your mental health by providing a space to release emotional burdens, express your emotions and thoughts without judgment, and learn tools to manage your emotions in a healthy way. A psychologist can guide you in developing a lifestyle that reduces the likelihood of experiencing physical or emotional disorders.
- Personal Growth and Emotional Management
In Puerto Rico, New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day traditionally symbolize an opportunity to let go of the old and welcome the new. Researchers suggest that marking significant dates helps individuals step out of their daily routines, making it easier to create contrast between their past self and their ideal future self.
Psychological therapy provides a safe space to explore and discover new ways to relate to yourself and your circumstances. It can help lessen the impact of past events or situations on your physical, mental, and emotional health.
Studies indicate that psychological therapy can lead to changes in brain function, which are associated with a reduction in reported symptoms. These observed changes help regulate or normalize irregular brain activity patterns. Therapy not only provides tools to alleviate symptoms but also helps individuals understand them, enabling them to develop a lifestyle that prevents relapses.
- Enhance Your Ability to Handle Problems in a Healthy Way
Acquiring new skills to effectively cope with daily challenges and difficulties contributes to self-confidence and self-esteem. In therapy, the psychologist works with and teaches tools based on the beliefs, habits, and life context of the person seeking support.
Through therapy, you learn to distinguish which problems are essential to address and which might be better to avoid. With professional guidance, you can identify thought and behavior patterns that promote your physical, emotional, and mental well-being.
- Strengthen Relationships: Partner, Family, or Social Connections
Therapy can help you build or strengthen your support system. You will have the opportunity to practice new ways of relating to yourself and others while learning tools to manage emotions, resolve conflicts, and communicate effectively in a healthy way.
- Convenient, Professional, Private, and on Your Schedule
In Puerto Rico, there are psychologists who offer online therapy services. The benefits of online psychological therapy are comparable to in-person therapy. Accessing therapy online provides you with the opportunity to receive professional and private support at a time and in an environment that is convenient for you.
Make your mental health a priority. If you resonate with any of these points, honor them and start the New Year by consulting a psychologist of your choice to receive online psychological therapy as support in achieving your New Year’s resolutions.
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