What Are Mental Health Problems?
Mental health problems are thoughts, feelings and behaviors that cause difficulty with the ability to perform daily activities, such as work, school, pleasurable activities, or affect your relationships with others.

What is Psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy helps to create an increased awareness of your situation, the causes for it and the reasons that the problem is being maintained.  Increased awareness results in insight, changes in your thoughts, feelings and behavior. Psychotherapy is the process that accomplishes this. The less aware we are of our motives, feelings, thoughts, actions, and perceptions, the more they control us and the more we stay stuck in old patterns that don't work anymore.

Psychotherapy is not advice. Part of what brings you to treatment is that you've become lost in advice and can't sort out who's to heed; the last thing you need is yet another voice to consider. The goal of treatment is for you to rediscover your own voice, your own priorities, and the courage to act on them.