{"id":439,"date":"2015-08-10T11:11:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T11:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/belindatrain.com\/clinicalpsychologist\/?p=439"},"modified":"2015-08-10T11:11:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T11:11:23","slug":"is-therapy-only-for-crazy-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belindatrain.com\/clinicalpsychologist\/2015\/08\/is-therapy-only-for-crazy-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Is therapy only for crazy people?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often see clients who tell me they haven&#8217;t sought therapy previously because they believed it was for crazy people. In my view it often those who have the greatest problems with mental health who don&#8217;t seek therapy. They may find the thought of it too threatening. Any idea of change or allowing oneself to be vulnerable seems too threatening. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, as I see it, it is the healthy part of oneself &#8211; the part that is related or willing to risk being in relationship, the part that is willing to be vulnerable, the part that is able to seek help &#8211; that is open to therapy. In that very willingness to risk and be vulnerable lies the courage to be open to change. Thus, seeking therapy is, in my mind, a sign of mental health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often see clients who tell me they haven&#8217;t sought therapy previously because they believed it was for crazy people. In my view it often those who have the greatest problems with mental health who don&#8217;t seek therapy. They may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/belindatrain.com\/clinicalpsychologist\/2015\/08\/is-therapy-only-for-crazy-people\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abc-of-therapy","category-parts-of-oneself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/belindatrain.com\/clinicalpsychologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/belindatrain.com\/clinicalpsychologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/belindatrain.com\/clinicalpsychologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belindatrain.com\/clinicalpsychologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belindatrain.com\/clinicalpsychologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/belindatrain.com\/clinicalpsychologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"https:\/\/belindatrain.com\/clinicalpsychologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/belindatrain.com\/clinicalpsychologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belindatrain.com\/clinicalpsychologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belindatrain.com\/clinicalpsychologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}