Individual Therapy for Stress, Anxiety, Depression, & Trauma/PTSD
Individual therapy involves one-on-one sessions that are convenient and confidential. For online therapy, all you need is a phone or computer and a comfortable and private setting.
Life can be overwhelming at times. If you are having negative beliefs about yourself and thinking, "I'm not good enough. It's my fault. I can't do enough." and having feelings of guilt or shame, it can leave you feeling stuck and unable to move forward in your life. It can cause you to feel both emotionally and physically exhausted. When the past is still here in the present and is all we can see for the future, it leaves us with a sense of hopelessness. When you successfully process the past and can then leave it behind, you are no longer stuck. You can move forward with a sense of calm confidence and learn to react differently, to see things differently, and make life easier and more enjoyable.
Therapy begins by identifying your goals, gathering information about your experiences, and building a trusting relationship. From there we work to help you better understand your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and how these factors affect your life. Self-awareness is an important and essential step in making positive personal change. As you gain insight, you can learn new coping skills, improve emotional regulation, increase self-esteem, and feel more confident in your decision making.
Some of the different evidence-based methods we may use in individual therapy include:
CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) - This is a type of talk therapy that helps to recognize and change negative thinking patterns that affect feelings and behaviors. Once identified, these negative or distorted thought patterns can be replaced with more realistic and positive ones, leading to greater resilience and a brighter outlook. It can be used to address a number of issues including depression, anxiety, trauma, disability, and stress.
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EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing) - EMDR is highly effective at helping to process current disturbing issues and past traumas that are affecting your mental health and likely contributing to anxiety and depression. It involves identifying negative beliefs about yourself and replacing them with more positive realistic beliefs through bilateral movements of the eyes, tapping shoulders, or whatever method is comfortable for you while reprocessing. As with CBT, it can give you a calmer more positive outlook.
Motivational Interviewing – This is a method of therapy in which the therapist asks questions about what is going on in your life and supports your responses in order to assist you in finding your own answers about how you would like to proceed in handling specific situations.
Solution-Focused Therapy – This is a therapy method that can be helpful in situations such as career changes or other issues that arise during life transitions. It is more focused on the future and existing strengths to achieve specific desires and outcomes.
An eclectic approach to therapy allows the therapist to tailor the type of treatment methods to each unique individual. Situations that individuals experience can be complicated and may need to be addressed in more than one way. Eclectic therapy allows increased methods of addressing issues for the purpose of achieving your goals.
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These are just some of the many approaches to therapy that are available. Whether you are suffering from PTSD, anxiety, depression, grief, or adjustment difficulties, we will find the best way to tackle those issues and make you feel a sense of recovery and peace.