Building Resilience: How Therapy Can Help

Bounce Back Successfully from Life’s Challenges

We’d all like to avoid unpleasant events in life, but sometimes they are inevitable. While most are beyond our control, how we deal with them can help. In psychological terms, it’s an area known as emotional resilience, and having more of it can benefit all of us.

If you have lived through difficult situations involving adversity, trauma, tragedy, and threats, you know how difficult they can be. It may be even more apparent if you are dealing with one currently or living with the aftereffects. So, the question is what to do, and our therapists are ready to help.

Our Honolulu-based therapists can teach you emotional resilience skills.

Working with a counselor to strengthen your emotional resilience skills is helpful for today and the future. If you’ve noticed some people endure traumatic events successfully and wondered how they did it, you may want to consider learning more about emotional resilience.

How Does Counseling Help Build Resilience?

At Wellness Counseling Center, our therapists strive to help you improve your resilience and develop other coping skills to help you thrive during all life stages, even difficult ones.

Learn to Overcome Emotional Distress – Seeking help can be crucial in building resilience. Learning from difficult and traumatic emotional experiences requires purposeful action in key areas of life. Building relationships, taking better care of yourself, having a purpose, and keeping things in perspective are vital.

Improve Your Ability to Grow from Adversity – Increasing your resilience takes time and a desire to do so. You’ll gain self-confidence and greater peace of mind when you’re successful.

Research shows that therapy can assist in developing greater resilience by helping you understand and develop new techniques and skills.

When is Being Emotionally Resilient Needed?

There are many examples of times when your emotional resilience is tested, but certain ones stand out and are more common. They include:

• Loss of a loved one
• Major accidents
• Serious illness
• Relationship problems
• Difficulties at work
• Financial strains

Successfully adapting to challenging life experiences like the ones above requires mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility as we adjust to internal and external demands.

Our Wellness Counseling therapists in Honolulu can work with anyone who is ready to learn emotional resilience. It’s a personal journey for each of us and supports a healthy, productive life.

What New Skills Will I Learn?

Increased psychological flexibility to improve your ability to be flexible and present in the moment. Accepting and dealing with traumatic events and situations is crucial. Ignoring or overreacting can delay your ability to deal with them and affect the outcome. With a more flexible and pragmatic approach, you can process your feelings and handle situations as required.

Ways to shift your perspective on how you view and engage with the world. Your initial thoughts and reactions to any problematic situation set the tone for what will come. By looking at things through a different (and more productive) lens, you can engage people and many situations more productively. It can help you feel more in control and improve your ability to deal with any event.

Improved problem-solving skills and other specific coping strategies. In addition to focusing on emotional and behavioral skills, our Honolulu mental health counselors can teach you other essential techniques. Examples are diaphragmatic breathing and other grounding techniques that help you refocus on the present and overcome anxious feelings.

Which Therapeutic Approaches are Helpful?

Therapeutic interventions that can help improve resilience include acceptance and commitment therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and cognitive behavioral therapy. Your counselor will carefully assess before deciding which method will benefit you most.

Developing greater emotional resilience will improve your life.

The right treatment plan is crucial to building the new skills you need. Not many Oahu psychotherapy clinics take the time we do to assess each client’s needs and customize a treatment approach to meet them. We’re a client-centered practice and view each person holistically.

Conclusion: Resilience Skills Therapy in Honolulu

We can all make wise choices and set goals, but none of us can control the future. That’s why emotional resilience skills are so important to good mental health.

• Overcome distress
• Grow from adversity
• Improve emotional flexibility
• Embrace life changes
• Look forward to the future

If you want to feel more confident about handling life’s challenges, we’ll help you learn valuable new resilience skills. They’re yours to keep for a lifetime and will help make difficult moments feel less overwhelming. The support and perspective you’ll receive from an experienced mental health professional can improve your life in many ways.

You can meet with us in person at our therapy center in Honolulu or by telehealth appointment from anywhere you have an internet connection. We accept many insurance plans and have flexible appointment times.