Why in New York it became fashionable to go to the store with a psychologist
'02.05.2018'
Source: New York Post
43-year-old Karen Khmelnitsky from New York is learning to dress consciously. This does not just mean choosing things of the right size and desired style, but trying new things, getting out of the comfort zone and making your life better.
Conscious choice of clothes is a fashionable trend among New Yorkers, writes New York Post. In this they certainly help a qualified psychologist. The fact is that clothing affects not only your appearance, it determines how you feel. The specialist helps clients select items based on sensations and necessary life changes.
Karen's fashionable "mentor" is 46-year-old Anya Shvartsman, a clinical psychologist, not a stylist. But this spring, she began giving fashion consultations for $ 250 per session (three is recommended for effectiveness). The movement is evolving: The Institute of Fashion and Technology offers a course in fashion psychology that teaches the patterns of influence of color and clothing on human behavior.
Shvartsman goes shopping with clients. “I don't do therapy with them, but I help them,” she says. One day she was asked to pick up a prom dress for a friend's daughter. The father, who was going through a divorce, was in a terrible state and could not help. The girl stood in the fitting room and sobbed, unable to choose something. Shvartsman came to the rescue, and everything worked out.
Her clients are people in difficult life situations. They are in a state of divorce, these are mothers of newborns, these are parents of children who have gone to college, these are women who celebrated their next mature anniversary. It is important for them to cope with their lives.
In the case of Khmelnitsky, Anya helped her to get out of her jeans, gym shoes and T-shirts and grow up - from what, as it turned out, the woman refused for years. Now she wears completely different things, more mature and elegant, and feels much more harmonious.
Before the session, clients fill out special questionnaires in which they answer, for example, the following questions: "How do you cope with life changes?", "What are your daily trials and battles?", "What difficulties do you face on the way to your goals?" ...
After shopping with a psychologist, a person rethinks not only the wardrobe, but also his life, the expert is sure. Trying something new for himself, he learns to take risks, which means he gets hope for a better future, faith in his own strength.
