Creating Your Life

Rather Than Just

Responding To It

Proactive Psychotherapy is about creating a life for yourself.     

The life you create for yourself is connected to the past, but not in the way that we often think it must be. The Past does not determine our future, it simply informs us about our past. 

While Psychotherapy is very good at helping us understand about our past, it has been weak in helping to guide us powerfully into our future.

Rather than beginning with the premise that something’s wrong, and needs to be fixed, Proactive Psychotherapy starts with what’s possible and works to make it realized.

               When our attention is focused on problems, even if we’re out to fix them, the problem is still being fed. And often understanding “why” we have done what we’ve done doesn’t help us do something different. Proactive Psychotherapy is positive and focused on the future more than on the past.

               When we put our energy toward realizing possibilities, we will encounter the same problems, which are then nothing more than the barriers to be met and mastered along the way of creating the life we want for ourselves.

Imagine that there is nothing wrong with your life, just barriers to meet and master in the pursuit of what you want. Proactive Psychotherapy is a multi-dimensional experience that makes life work.

               How Proactive Psychotherapy Works—

• Through a rigorous exploration of what is, client and therapist create a New Possibility.
• With the New Possibility clearly in sight, a Roadmap is developed for realizing the new possibility.

                       The roadmap is a clear, tangible, measurable plan for realizing that possibility.

                       It includes steps to be taken to realize the new possibility and a timetable for accomplishing those steps.

• Along with realizing a New Possibility the client will develop a support network of people who will commit to the ongoing sustenance of the new possibility.

               Proactive Psychotherapy is not open-ended, but works inside a specific time period (generally three, six or nine months) to complete work toward clearly defined and measurable outcomes. Both the client and therapist make commitments to take actions that will generate the outcomes.

               Usually, in addition to two in-person sessions and five coaching calls each week, there is an open line of connection between client and therapist for immediate support and coaching. Fees are set in advance and paid monthly by agreement.

               This work is founded on the belief that we create only out of the commitments we make and keep. In other words, if I want something for myself and my life the only way I will get it is to commit myself to the work involved in getting it. But we all get stopped in the pursuit of what we want. It’s the soul of life! In the context of “going after” our goals we encounter our barriers. And with solid psychologically-oriented coaching we can master our barriers.

This therapeutic model creates a clear and direct context of support to succeed at meeting our goals and living a joyous, fulfilled life.

What to Expect from Proactive Psychotherapy—

• You will generate a New Possibility and make the commitments necessary to realize that Possibility
• You will become proficient at setting and reaching goals for your life in an encouraging and supportive context.
• You will create and sustain a support team to continue to make and meet new commitments you will make.

Michael Zeman, MA, M.Div., NCPsyA

870 Hollow Tree Ridge Road

Darien, Connecticut 06820

mz@proactive-psychotherapy.com