Men’s Issues
“Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.”
– Rikki Rogers
Are You A Man Looking To Increase Your Emotional Intelligence?
Do you struggle to express yourself, process your emotions, or give and receive love in your personal relationships? Have you experienced any of the following negative symptoms:
- Difficulty getting in touch with your feelings?
- Problems maintaining healthy relationships?
- Trouble processing and healing from past trauma?
Maybe you’ve noticed yourself regularly clashing with your romantic partner, kids, extended family, friends, or co-workers. Or perhaps you’ve found yourself isolating or withdrawing altogether from relationships or activities that you once enjoyed. Although you’ve learned to push through and try to solve your struggles alone, perhaps you’ve been considering getting extra support.
Hiding Your Emotional Issues Could Hinder Your Relationships
You may find it difficult to talk about any of the issues that you are experiencing. Maybe you’ve learned to see emotions as a liability or weakness. As a result, you may find yourself living like an emotional island, keeping your problems to yourself and living in self-imposed isolation. And your relationships can suffer heavily from this inability to open up and sort through emotional issues.
We want you to know, however, that many of your issues are actually quite common—and with the right type of support and encouragement, you can move past them for good. Therapy with Wild Ethos Counseling can help men like you learn how to express your thoughts and emotions more effectively and create healthier and more fulfilling relationships.
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Many Men Struggle To Maintain Healthy Emotional Relationships
For some men, the only acceptable display of emotions that they were taught to express was anger. This creates many obvious relationship problems over time that can lead to some men seeking the complete avoidance of all difficult emotions. They might refuse to share their emotions with others, which often leads to loneliness and causes them to feel like no one understands them.
A lot of men also perpetually struggle to escape their fear of vulnerability, which pretty much all loving, healthy relationships require. As a society, we’ve been taught that emotions are a sign of weakness. And since men are taught to be strong, we’re taught to push our emotions down and avoid processing them. Yet the truth is that there is great strength in vulnerability—it takes tremendous courage to open up to others and admit that we need support.
Even Success Can Come At A Great Cost To Mental And Emotional Health
For some other men, their emotional issues are hidden behind professional or material success and left largely unaddressed. They invest so much of their time into material success that their emotional needs get left on the back-burner. They may work a stressful, demanding job and end up passing on much of that negative energy to their friends or family in the process.
At Wild Ethos Counseling, we can help men heal and grow through online therapy. In addition to helping men work through basic emotional issues, therapy can focus on trauma, relationship issues, career challenges, imposter syndrome, and many other problems. And we can help you build your emotional intelligence while improving your life and relationships.
Therapy Can Help Men Become Better Versions Of Themselves
When you have thought and acted a certain way for most of your life, it can be challenging to suddenly see and do things in a completely different way. But often this is precisely what is required in order to heal, grow, and change.
An empathetic therapist can help you effectively improve yourself, your relationships, and your life as a whole—so long as you are open to the process. You can then take the skills that you’ve learned and apply them to the areas of your life that matter most. In this way, counseling can help men like you unlock your inner courage and achieve transformation.
In therapy together, you and your therapist will work on navigating all the unique parts of your personality and learning to accept the parts you may not feel comfortable with. The goal is for you to emerge from therapy as a stronger and more grounded individual.
An Approach To Therapy That Will Work For You
Your therapist will incorporate various therapeutic modalities to address your issues, including:
- Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) – Within the context of men’s issues counseling, IFS focuses on how different parts of our personalities impact our thoughts, behaviors, and relationships.
- Bowenian Family Therapy (BFT) – Similar to IFS, Bowenian Family Therapy can help men repair damage in their closest personal relationships.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) – An evidence-based form of psychotherapy, CBT can help men identify and reframe negative thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors.
Through these overlapping approaches, our long-term goals will be to increase your overall emotional intelligence, develop your ability to maintain healthy relationships both personally and professionally, and allow you to step more fully into the life that you want to live.
Remember: you may feel discouraged now, but even a slight change is still change, and even a small improvement is still improvement. You are a work in progress like everyone else and we can’t wait to do everything that we can to help you along in that progress.
You May Still Have Some Concerns About Therapy For Men…
I’m concerned about the cost of therapy for men.
What’s the cost of living an unfulfilled life? What’s the cost of a lack of meaningful relationships? What’s the cost of not being able to fulfill your destiny because you got in the way of your own healing or growth? It’s really the cost of not being open to therapy that can prove significant. By prioritizing your own emotional well-being, you can create lasting transformation and set yourself up for long-term success.
I’m concerned that therapy will make things worse.
While the work required by therapy may prove difficult at times, I can assure you that it won’t actually make anything worse. In fact, it can’t—since any work that you do on yourself will constitute a step in the right direction. And I think that you’ll be surprised how far you can get after repeated steps in the right direction through the therapeutic process.
I’m concerned that I’ll become dependent on therapy.
By design, the therapeutic process is intended to eventually come to a close. I’m not necessarily signing up to be your lifelong travel companion, nor are you looking for an emotional surrogate. Our goal is to prepare you to step back into your life after our time together having now found your own voice and now knowing how to use it. So let’s get started.
You Can Improve Your Health, Your Relationships, And Your Life
If you are struggling to cope professionally and personally, therapy for men with Wild Ethos Counseling can help you build the best version of yourself for the future.
Please call us at 931-539-0373 or utilize our contact page to set up a complimentary, 15-minute phone consultation session to kickstart your personal journey forward.
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