If you’re considering therapy with me, you may be thinking about the possible drawbacks. Cost could be a concern for you. I am a highly qualified and experienced expert, and there is an appropriate cost for that. You might also be aware that therapy can be emotionally difficult. Behaviors you recently decided to engage in, or other painful events from your past can be frightening to speak on. Even if you aren’t dealing with classic issues like painful trauma from your childhood, working through challenges isn’t easy, and therapy is not a quick fix. In addition, therapy also requires rigorous honesty with yourself, and with any therapist you expect to help you.

Even with all of these emotional and financial costs of seeing me acknowledged as real, and significant, getting my help for this specific problem is almost certainly, by far, the cheapest and easiest thing you can do, compared to you ignoring this problem or seeing one of the lesser clinicians who claim they are “experts” at this, and then you having to deal with the consequences of no help, or the consequences of getting some of the lesser quality clinical help out there.

Therapy with me is an emotional and financial investment in improving your life, and protecting what you love in your life from further self destructive behaviors.