Resilience Therapy
How Can RTPC Help Me Become More Resilient?
Resilience is the ability to recover or "bounce back" from life's difficulties more quickly. We all experience challenges in life. However, some people experience higher degrees of difficulty and have a harder time coping with their difficult life experiences. We call an experience a "trauma" when your resources are insufficient to overcome a perceived threat. Traumatic experiences can be physical, mental and/ or emotional, depending on your experience and how you perceive a threat. At RTPC, we work to help you better understand which current habits and ways of coping are effective, which ones are not, and help you replace habits that you have outgrown with more effective ways to deal with life challenges and opportunities.
What Types of Changes Might I Expect from RTPC Therapy?
• Improving your self esteem and self confidence
• Improve your ability to bounce back after adversity (resilience!)
• Reducing ruminating, worrying, obsessing
• Increase ability to cope with difficult social situations, reduce social anxiety
• Making it easier for you to determine your needs and ask for help
• Reducing your negative self-talk
• Improve self-validation
• Improve your sense of belonging
• Changing your habit of people pleasing to become more assertive
• Make it easier to respond to feedback from others effectively
• Improve your ability to bond with people that are supportive, affirming, trustworthy
• Learn new more functional coping skills
• Reduce your reliance on compulsive behaviors that have negative side effects
• Improve your ability to calm yourself down when angry or fearful
• Increase in the ability to self soothe or calm yourself down when upset.
• Reduce your anxiety and/or irritability
• improve your sleep and eating habits
Start Improving Your Life Today!
All of our sessions, individual, family and group therapy, are delivered via telehealth.
At RTPC, our work is informed by Brene Brown, shame and vulnerability researcher; Bessel van der Kolk, leading expert in the field of trauma recovery; Peter Levine, master somatic therapist; and Marsha Linnehan, creator of dialectical behavior therapy, a type of psychotherapy that combines behavioral science with concepts of acceptance and mindfulness.
Main Phone Number: 773-206-1866
What Are Some Types of Issues RTPC Treats?
Interpersonal Challenges
Difficult Life Transitions
Difficult Life Transitions
Codependency, patterns of arguing and shaming, chronic blaming and invalidating yourself or others, name calling, domestic violence, bullying, child abuse, gaslighting, neglect or abandonment, discrimination, infidelity, compulsive sexual behaviors.
Difficult Life Transitions
Difficult Life Transitions
Difficult Life Transitions
Situations like changing jobs, losing your job, returning to the job market after an absence, going through a divorce or separation, being in the sandwich generation (caring for your children as well as aging parents), unexpected loss of a loved one, military deployment, immigrating to a new country, losing your home, retiring or preparing for retirement, taking care of aging parents.
Physical Challenges
Difficult Life Transitions
Physical Challenges
Such as injuries, assaults, sexual or physical abuse, witnessing or being involved in violence, military combat trauma, near drownings, experiencing accidents or natural disasters.
How Do Childhood Experiences Effect People Differently?
Childhood Teaches Us About the World
Difficulties experienced in childhood tends to have a greater impact and are not always seen as unusual. In childhood we are still learning about the world and how things work. Children that have caregivers that neglect, abandon, or abuse them tend to think it is their fault somehow, and that the adult was acting appropriately. This can lead to a lifetime of self-criticism, emotional reactivity, feeling left out, loss of sense of belonging, loss of sense of worthiness, a tendency towards self-hate, self-harm, and a vulnerability to being abused or used by others as an adult. You may feel frustrated that you tend to end up in the same type of relationships or work situations over and over and can't seem to find a way out.