Logotherapy

How important is our philosophy of life to our health? Have you found your purpose? To you today, what is the meaning of life? These questions may have never crossed your mind before, but what thoughts or feelings do you get from them? These are questions and concepts that are discovered when working with a therapist in logotherapy. If these questions illicit a response from you, logotherapy may be a process that you may benefit from pursuing, regardless of if you have pursued counseling in the past. Overall, logotherapy focus’s on choosing one’s attitude and determing an individual’s motivation for living. 

What is Logotherapy?

Logotherapy is a scientifically-based form of psychotherapy that entails working with a logotherapist to investigate and communicate your personal thoughts and feelings while working towards identifying the deeper meaning of your life. Logotherapy works to reveal thoughts, feelings, and perspectives that you may not be consciously aware of through introspection and intentional focus on your thoughts, feelings, and on finding meaning withing yourself and your life.

Logo therapy places an emphasis on strengthening the ‘spirit’ of an individual through three techniques called dereflection, paradoxical intention, and Socratic dialogue.

Dereflection is intended to help you focus less intensely on yourself and more on the perspectives of others. The goal of this is to reduce hyper-reflection, or intense focus or repetition of negative thoughts and anxiety inducing ideas and beliefs.

Paradoxical intention asks you to open up to the idea of what you fear most. This technique was originally created to help combat negative feelings created by anxiety and phobias, but can be used toward any area of your life where you are experiencing fear and anxiety. By setting any intention to do or explore the thought causing fear, the fear itself becomes reduced. 

Lastly, Socratic dialogue was designed to help you gain clarity toward yourself by focusing more closely on your own words. Your therapist will listen closely during your sessions, reiterate your thought patterns and ideas, and help you identify the greater meaning in the thoughts you express during therapy.

How can Logotherapy help me?

While many people have undergone extreme changes during the current pandemic, logotherapy may offer you the time and place for you to gain back purpose in your life. It may also be a helpful addition to other forms of therapy you may be seeking, as a way to best address your entire situation and help reframe your feelings toward your life.

Logotherapy has been used in therapy to treat or attend to:

• Depression.
• Post-traumatic stress or acute-stress.
• Addiction.
• Substance or alcohol use or abuse.
• Other mental health issues.

Logotherapy at Thoughtwise can help you initiate new patterns or break old patterns by helping you understand and put meaning towards life change.

Some of the underlying principles of logotherapy recognize:

• Everyone has value, and everyone puts purpose in their life.
• Meaning is a significant factor behind thoughts, actions, and behaviors.
• It is not the event that takes place that determines how you react; it is often the meaning that you put on the events that determine your choices.

How does Logotherapy work?

Logotherapy is important has is a therapeutic and natural approach to talk therapy.

Logotherapy approaches talk therapy with the belief that human beings desire meaning in their lives regardless of circumstance or past struggles. Your attitude may always outweigh your circumstances, and that with every event that takes place, your values, spirituality, and philosophy help determine your overall mentality toward your life and your feelings toward yourself and others.

At Thoughtwise in Tallahassee, Florida, the fundamentals and foundations of logotherapy can be offered to you to promote your mental health. With us, you can begin a path towards self-awareness, purpose, and freedom. Logotherapy is a deeper approach to talk therapy and can be the base of 1:1 talk therapy or group therapy or used as a supplement to other therapy methods. Logotherapy can also be delivered via telehealth or at-distance.

Logotherapy is the type of therapy that focuses on specific factors:

• Your spirit.
• Your opinion.
• The meaning you give life.
• Your attitude.
• Your empathy and compassion.
• Destiny and your relationship with the “human condition.”

Some of the major problems that you may talk with your therapist about in logotherapy may benefit your health. It may help you to establish better connections, and to better understand your psychology, yourself, and your life.

Logotherapy aims to help you heal and grow by helping you gain insight into:

• Your personal reflections of your life.
• Your relationship to life.
• The meaning you give mortality.
• Your feelings of loneliness or isolation.
• Your philosophy.

Seeking and indentifying purpose in your life has been shown to help improve physical and mental health, resiliency, and life satisfaction. Pursuing logotherapy may help improve your overall happiness, and help you find peace or healing from past experiences. If you are interested in partaking in logotherapy, please schedule a consultation with us at Thoughtwise today.