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What Should I Talk About in Therapy?

Therapy is a place to work out your inner and outer conflicts. A place to find out what you really want and who you really are. While in therapy, it’s safe and it’s expected to question the norms and beliefs everyone else pressures you to accept. You can slowly peel back the layers of everything that is and isn’t you.

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How to Know When It’s Time to Go to Therapy

Most people seek therapy when they feel a need for help in changing some aspect of their life. Therapy can help encourage and support your desire to change. Perhaps you have goals you want to achieve but are finding it hard to attain them.  Or perhaps you’re working through unresolved issues you’ve never dealt with.

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What is Informed Consent?

Informed Consent” is an umbrella term for all the documents you sign when you go to your first therapy appointment. Sometimes, you’ll fill out paperwork with the therapist’s office assistant before your first visit. These documents are basically a formal way of saying you know that your participation in therapy is voluntary.

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In crisis? Here's who to call/text.

The following options are available 24/7 to provide free, confidential support in multiple languages. These resources are free, and everything you tell them is confidential, unless it’s essential to contact emergency services to keep you or a friend safe.

Suicide and Crisis Lifeline >> Click here to dial 988
Press 1 for Veterans, Press 2 for Spanish

Crisis Text Line >> Text HOME to 741741

In a life or death medical emergency >> Click here to dial 911

If someone is injured or their health is in danger, call 911. If appropriate, ask the operator to send someone trained in mental health, like Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) officers.

Safeguarding Therapy is NOT an emergency provider nor do we offer live support.