There’s a common idea about psychotherapy that you need to be really struggling before you go.

Maybe something has to happen first. A relationship ends. Anxiety becomes unmanageable. You can’t sleep. You’re burned out. You reach a point where you finally think, I can’t keep doing this.

Therapy can absolutely be helpful during those moments. But you don’t have to wait until you reach one.

In fact, some of the most meaningful therapy happens when life looks relatively okay from the outside.

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