Becoming More Fully Yourself: Therapy as a Lifelong Tool
Often times, people will seek out therapy when they encounter a crisis in their lives or within themselves. Engaging in therapy is definitely an excellent way to handle these moments of crisis. Therapy can help you stabilize through grief, trauma, anxiety, or whatever you are experiencing. But the benefits of therapy also extend beyond those moments, giving you a foundation for empowerment and self-discovery.
Therapy for Crisis and Lifelong Growth
Therapy has a dual role: Crisis support and Long-term Growth.
Crisis Support: Offering grounding and stabilization in life’s hardest moments.
Empowerment and Growth: Providing tools like breathwork, reframing, or values-based practices that you can carry into your daily life beyond crisis management.
With this dual focus, therapy becomes more than treatment. It becomes a lifelong resource for resilience, empowerment, and becoming more fully yourself.
Therapy and the Growth Mindset
One of the most profound gifts therapy offers is cultivating a growth mindset—the belief that we can keep learning and evolving.
Therapy helps transform setbacks into stepping stones, guiding you to see challenges as opportunities for growth. Through this process, you can practice becoming more fully yourself, more rooted, adaptable, and open to growth in every season of life.
Through therapy, you can practice:
- Recognizing patterns and shifting them with awareness.
- Responding to challenges with curiosity instead of judgment.
- Building confidence in your ability to navigate what comes next.
Practicing these things provides opportunities to move from feeling overwhelmed to feeling resourced and capable. Further, you’ll be equipped with practices you can return to, strengthening your confidence in yourself.
A Short Practice for You: Returning to Yourself
We invite you to try this little practice below to experience what therapy offers—a consistent space to pause, reconnect, and come home to yourself. Over time, these simple returns build strength, confidence, and empowerment.
Please take a moment to pause with us:
- Place your hand over your heart.
- Close your eyes and notice the sensation of your hand on your chest.
- Inhale deeply, as if you’re gathering scattered pieces of yourself from your environment. At the top of the inhale, take in one more little sip of air and hold it.
- Exhale slowly with an audible sigh and whisper: “I am here.”
- Repeat as needed ♥
Therapy for Whole-Person Healing in the Salt Lake Valley
Our therapists at The Lotus Center weave in embodied and reflective practices like the one above through individual and group therapy along with using evidence-based approaches like EMDR, CBT, ACT, and mindfulness. Further, we focus on providing integrative psychotherapy that supports your whole self—mind, body, and spirit.
Partnering with one of our therapists is a collaborative experience between you and your therapist as well as other members of your care team. Because we see therapy as an integral part of whole-person mental healthcare and wellness, our therapists can help resource you with tools for your body and spirit as well as collaborate with the other members of your health and wellness care team as you want or need.
If needed, our therapists can help you connect with:
- IV vitamin infusions to support mood and energy.
- Medication management with our medical providers.
- Mindfulness practices and VR meditation to calm the nervous system.
- Spiritual care with our chaplain for meaning and connection.
- Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy if indicated.
Your Lotus Center therapist is here to ensure your care is holistic, integrated, and attuned to your unique journey.
Take the Next Step
Therapy is an invitation to come home to yourself, to grow through challenges, and to claim your own strength.
✨If it seems like our therapists and our philosophy of care are a good match for what you are looking for, please reach out to us! We are currently accepting new clients!
Call us at 385-272-4292 to schedule your first appointment.
We’ve Recently Added to Our Team of Amazing Therapists
We are delighted to welcome two new therapists to our team who embody this whole-person, empowerment-centered approach:
Skyler honors you as the expert of your own life. He emphasizes emotional exploration, social connection, and holistic wellness. With training in yoga and meditation, Skyler integrates practices that empower clients to find grounding and balance.
Adam specializes in trauma, grief, addiction, couples work, and identity exploration. Drawing from both clinical expertise and a creative background, Adam helps clients author their own life stories. Clients describe him as warm, empathetic, and gently challenging.
Together with our team of experienced therapists, Skyler and Adam bring compassion, creativity, and empowerment to therapy, helping clients navigate crisis while also cultivating tools for lifelong growth.
