I get that it's tough to reach out! If you are struggling with feelings of depression, anxiety, grief and loss, therapy can help. In therapy, we can identify thoughts and behaviors that keep you from being your best self. With guidance and support, you can learn coping skills that enable you to move beyond habits and patterns that no longer serve you and find joy again! Acknowledging the past and focusing on the future can help you live the life you really want. The most effective therapy helps you to identify your unique personal road map to where you want to be.
Individual therapy isn’t just “one person in a room.” It is a systemic, emotional, cognitive, and relational intervention focused on helping someone:
- Understand their internal patterns
- Expand emotional capacity
- Increase differentiation and autonomy
- Shift relational templates
- Build a more flexible, integrated sense of self
- Experiment with new behaviors in real life
- Even when the work is “individual,” the relational field is always present
- The family of origin, partners, attachment history, internalized voices, and the therapeutic relationship itself.
Some approaches I have used which have been very helpful with clients include:
- Emotional Focused Individual Therapy
- Psychodynamic/Relational
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Systemic/Differentiation Based
Therapy may include the following elements:
- Identifying emotions, thoughts, behaviors
- Creating corrective emotional experiences
- Practice self-definition without aggression or collapse
- Building tolerance for discomfort
- Identifying what matters
- Building a life aligned with meaning