Feeling confused? Don't know where to start? Let's Talk Mental Health - with Eli Knopfler LCSW.

Ellie Ellie was nice to meet you and uh and you know special now with the mental health awareness you can just give me like mental health with articles in the you know English everybody bus somehow ring mental health right right so people are looking to live better lives people are sick of living with pain and darkness and lack of clarity not having relationships people are really sick of it again back in the day people were busy with bigger things you know survival and basic Pusa but now everyone's everyone has their basic needs taken care of as much as it's difficult the basic needs are taken care of and then we sort of everyone sort of looks to improve their lives and that's what we're holding today wow wow okay but the main issue I think is um help and also people were afraid picture you have a certain way how to help people with the situation diag helped help right okay so to make to make a long story short basically what I'm doing is I'm I'm meeting people I'm having consultations with them so again consultation is a fancy word for a one-time meeting where you're meeting someone you're sort of getting their whole story what's going on past current symptoms how their life's not going well now and sort of trying to help them first of all get clarity on what's going on so a lot of times people they come in they they they hear they read a little they read a little in the Ami living and they heard this name this XYZ and this thing and their wife told them this and the sh or whatever it is and people people are confused there's so much information out there but sometimes people really they don't have Clarity they don't know what going on you know even before therapy which is again therapy brings people to Clarity but even before that people just need to know which direction they're going in people need to know what their problem is what they can do to help themselves and and you know therapies I'm a big fan of therapy that's what I do most of the day is traditional therapy but at the same time therapy is not the only answer it's not the only way to heal it's not the only way to get better there's many ways to heal and that's what I'm trying to do so in cson basically regular therapist men right so again thank God I'm blessed I've done I've done three to 4,000 individual meetings with people intakes and evaluations over the years thank God I I never had a problem with people opening up usually by the time people are sitting sitting with me the story is coming out I don't know exactly why it's like that but thank God that is that's that is the that's the story but yeah sort of what we're doing is really getting again it's a part of my experience is giving me knowing which questions to ask knowing to to get straight to the straight to the points a lot of times a lot of fluff there's a lot of noise and the idea is to get straight to to the main points you're again you're taking the whole story but you're getting straight to the main points and and you're figuring out where this person is struggling and and how he can help himself so so there's two pieces here there's perspective there's the clarity right if I don't have Clarity if I don't have DS I don't know where to go right I first need to know what's going on what's the problem what are my behaviors or my thinking patterns that are making things difficult for me and then we can work towards Solutions so sometimes again sometimes the answer might be you you know would be really helpful for you to go to therapy sometimes the answer is hey you know go read this book or you know you're not you know you're struggling with self- awareness or whatever it is so how about you know go go go do some journaling whatever it is finding a customade solution for each person to be able to help them so basically you're not focusing on a long-term therapy basically if somebody you know wants to open themselves you do like a onetime session session exactly and the GU them how the next step is a lot of times it's not going you know therapy therapy right just do this exercise go for this help go do that right sometimes book and exactly again first of this is not a commitment thing I I don't I don't want to see people more than one or two three times again you know it's even if it is it's over a longer period well I'm trying to do something a little different it's not the weekly coming in and doing ther which is beautiful but sometimes there's really other ways how to how to heal and to get better wow unbelievable unbelievable fine Ellie what's the next step if somebody wants to reach out to you like if like Vel reach out yeah so Reach Out best is through text it's my number is 929 26957 one5 929 2695 715 cool text okay text is the best and again just another added perk that we're trying to do over here is again sometimes the therapist office could be uh I don't want to say skary play scary is not the right word but it's rigid it's it's it feels a little bit boxy one of the things I'm doing is I'm just trying to make it a little bit more broad so again for the person who wants to meet in in an office and have that kind session beautiful you know for some people they want they'd rather go to a park and take a walk and which is beautiful big of that you move and you you you just your nature and it really opens people up in an amazing way walking hiking you know one person wants to go to a restaurant you know talk over steak a good same way you have a good business meeting over steak a good a good session talking about life and really just trying to get clarity over some good food good a good steak goes a long way 100% wow unbelievable Ellie v v where's your office if someone wants to meet you in person so we're located in M you know that's that's where my office is but again we go to Brooklyn we go to Lakewood uh we can do Zoom sessions again in person's better but um Zoom sessions are great as well and sort of you know we're here to help we're here to help the people we're here to help the people and whatever way we can do that that's what we're here to do