Therapy Works: Sometimes in a Simple, Lovely Way

I have seen a client Peter*, for several years. At times I can wonder if he is getting sufficient value from his coming to sessions.  Yet, it is days like today that validate a faith in the therapy setting.  No major revelations; no stunning insights. Yet, Peter came into session and spoke rather freely and roamingly over a range of topics.  Peter is, in small increments that build up rather impressively over time, becoming more connected to himself and to his ability to share of himself without a worrying analysis that monitors his take on how Others are reacting to him. 

Side note: Peter blushes easily and a bright pink color from his brow down to his neck. He has told of being in grade school and middle school, sitting in classes, being teased, and being agonizingly self-conscious. Peter is a voracious reader and he was teased by peers and even punished by teachers for his wish to draw off into himself and his world of books. 

From this background, it is even more significant that Peter learn in the laboratory of the therapy setting to practice being himself.  And, gradually, he is growing in his ability to take this learning from the safety of therapy out into the hurly-burly of everyday life. 

*Names and details will always be changed here so that these therapy experiences, while true and real, will remain anonymous and untraceable to any particular person.