Psychotherapeutic Goals

The main goals of REBT are:

 

1) To minimize dysfunctional distress and enhance satisfaction, functioning, resilience under duress, goal attainment, and joy or contentment in the process of living.

 

In short, Hollings Therapy, LLC clinicians aim to help you improve functioning (e.g., alter unhelpful behavioral outcomes) and enhance your quality of life (i.e., because of altered behavioral patterns, you may get along better with other people).

 

2) To promote healthy living based on rational thinking.

 

In REBT literature, this objective is referred to as “rational living.” As a “healthy” standard is a subjective aim, each individual seeking the services of Hollings Therapy, LLC may expect differing outcomes.

 

3) To try and help people get better rather than merely feeling better.

 

Unlike many other therapeutic approaches, REBT ultimately seeks to help you become your own therapist, so to speak. As such, REBT is a self-help psychotherapeutic modality.

 

In addition to these objectives, Hollings Therapy, LLC strives to:

 

1) Help people push through discomfort so that they may grow. This means that discomfort is inherent in the psychotherapeutic process.

 

Unlike information you may find on social media platforms, in films or streaming services, or regarding discussions with like-minded people, adequate mental, emotional, and behavioral health care practice isn’t always a pleasant experience.

 

Of course, neither is the process of self-disturbance which brings you to therapy in the first place. Therefore, you are invited to challenge or, at times, sit with discomfort.

 

2) Invite people to autonomously seek purpose and derive meaning from this self-determined perspective.

 

Whereas purpose is something set up as an object or an end to be attained, meaning is an important or worthwhile quality. Thus, purpose is what one does and meaning relates to worth derived from purpose.

 

3) Tolerate and accept how little control and influence people have in life, and to use what time remains in this existence to set, pursue, and attain goals.

 

The indisputable fact of human life is that it will inevitably end in regard to its current form and function. You will die one day.

 

Given this inescapable reality, you are offered to focus on those matters within your existence which are able to be changed. With all else, tolerance and acceptance are practiced.

 

4) Embrace rational thinking—that which is in accordance with logic and reason—while keeping in mind philosophical consideration of Stoicism, humanism, and existentialism.

 

REBT practice isn’t a form of dogmatic ideology and you are encouraged to consider a flexible, good-enough standard of living captured in the Stoic practice of eudaimonia—a life well-lived.