Understanding Meta-Emotions: Meta-Emotions are often discussed in Teen Therapy, Individual Therapy and Couples Therapy.
People have a way that they feel about the feelings they are experiencing which is called meta-emotion that happens in normal human development. Throughout your life, you have emotional experiences that lead you to respond to situations and people in a certain way to have your needs met and manage your emotions.
There are many ways that understanding your emotions and meta-emotions can be helpful to you. An example may be that you learned to express your hurt by crying to your mother so she learned to nurture you and help you feel better. Or differently, you may have learned that showing your ability to be rational and intellectualize a situation made you successful at work by conveying your point across without emotions. Understanding your patterns of responding to different emotions can help you to utilize the ways it can benefit you to help you be more effective in communicating across different situations.
Sometimes, people do not feel safe enough to allow their emotions to be felt in an authentic way so they develop ways to cope with them that are not very helpful. These coping strategies tend to be useful in the beginning with a particular problem so people learn to reuse them in different problems they face. However, not all coping strategies are created equal. Their effectiveness varies with the situation you are faces with, the phase of life you are in, symptoms you experience, or current relationships you are in. An example may be the person who learned to cry to mom has trouble holding in feeling hurt while receiving criticism at work. Or the intellectual who struggles to relate intimately with other more emotionally expressive people making connection difficult.
People have different ways of labeling their emotions.
- positive or negative,
- acceptable or not,
- happy or sad
Sifting through the labels of your emotional experience as a raw emotion or a meta-emotion can help you to manage it in more effective ways and allow you to be a more authentic version of yourself. Can you spend a few minutes talking about if you understand your label of your meta emotion? Then you have the ability to choose to change it. Some people are gifted with the self awareness of their emotional experience so that they are able to manage their reactions to these feelings in healthy, helpful ways. Others struggle to see alternate ways to react and respond to emotions. If you cannot do this on your own, a therapist can help you expand your set of emotions and meta-emotions to help you succeed in different types of situations or relationships. If you still struggle to manage your emotions and need a therapist to help you through it, contact the Center for Growth or consult others tips on meta-emotion and depression.
You can self schedule an in-person or virtual therapy session at the Center for Growth by calling (215) 922- LOVE (5683) x 100.
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For your convenience, we have brick and mortar offices and work with clients virtually in Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, New Jersey, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
Physical Therapy Office Locations:
Ocean City Therapy Office 360 West Ave, Floor 1, Ocean City, NJ 08226
Mechanicsville Therapy Office 9044 Mann Drive, Mechanicsville Virginia, 23116
Society Hill Therapy Office 233 S. 6th Street, C-33, Philadelphia PA 19106
Art Museum / Fairmount Therapy Office 2401 Pennsylvania Ave, Suite 1a2, Philadelphia PA 19130
Providence Therapy Office 173 Waterman St. Providence, RI 02906
Fayetteville Therapy Office 101 Devant Street #606, Fayetteville GA 30214
Santa Fe Therapy Office, 2204 B Brothers Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87505
Telemedicine Therapy Locations: We have therapists who are licensed to work in Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Virginia and Pennsylvania
Therapy Services Offered in Fayetteville, Ocean City, Mechanicsville, Philadelphia, Providence, Santa Fe:
Individual Counseling and therapy
Couples Counseling and marriage counseling
Teen Therapy and Adolescent Therapy and tweens and child counseling
Family Therapy and multi-generational counseling
Art Therapy and Counseling no art skills needed
ADHD Therapy and ADD, Dyslexia, Autism, Tourettes counseling
Anxiety, Panic, OCD Therapy and worry and fear support
Breaking the cycle of Codependency and being your own person
Overcoming Chronic Illness and Chronic Pain .
Depression Therapy and sadness, gloom, and upset support
Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) Therapy is a particular style of therapy designed for people with problems affecting their nervous system, how the brain and body send and receive signals.
Grief Therapy and loss, End of A Relationship, rejections, pregnancy and loss and therapy
Mindfulness Based Therapy and spirituality based therapy
Narcissistic Abuse Recovery child of, parent of, spouse of, sibling of a narcissist.
Sex Therapy and sexual function & dysfunction, sex addiction, sexual orientation and gender identity support
Trauma Therapy both emotional and sexual abuse, complex trauma, PTSD counseling
Divorce support
Affairs, Infidelity, Unfaithful, Cheating counseling
Parenting therapy
Personality disorder treatments Narcissist, Borderline, Histrionic
Setting Boundaries and identifying ones own Core Beliefs
Just name some of the Mental Health issues that we work with. Our goal is to help you Change and Achieve Your Dreams
