Individual Therapy

Exploring individual therapy may be right for you.

Something isn’t right, but it is hard to pinpoint just what that something is. You know that you’re irritable and extra moody, and you don’t like your reactions to people around you.

Are any of your thoughts real?

Alternatively, you may be at a time in your life where you want to explore options – deciding on a new line of work, moving to a different place, enhancing relationships, etc. Perhaps, you are stuck and find it difficult to determine the best way to become unstuck.

Individual therapy can make all the difference.

Individual therapy allows you to tell what’s on your mind, be yourself, lower your defenses, and be authentic. It helps you focus on being a better you. As you show up for yourself, you will find that you can appear in interpersonal relationships – often where the real struggle is.

At these times, individual therapy can help identify and overcome that feeling of uncertainty in your life. During the early phases of therapy, I will help you identify distortions in your thinking that keep you stuck in unhealthy repetitive patterns.

I will also lead you in some mindfulness techniques to help you be present in the moment.

Take it from me – it works!

After I got married and so much didn’t go as planned, I wondered why I had what seemed like post-traumatic stress. I also wondered why when doing my master’s, I struggled with social anxiety and the fear of being wrong. My counselor helped me recognize this pattern of perfectionistic thinking.

During an Association for Anxiety and Depression conference, I presented my master’s thesis. My anxiety intensified at the thought of being in front of strangers who could judge and criticize me – my palms became sweaty, my stomach hurt, and my forehead glistened with sweat.

Returning to my hotel room, I decided not to present my poster; my colleagues would have to do it without me. The universe must have felt my distress because my therapist called and said I was on her mind. She reminded me to sit and breathe while inviting me to engage simultaneously. I smirked and responded, “I don’t have time to breathe.” I went along with it, and immediately, my nerves began to settle. AMAZING!

Take it from me. It works!

As I experienced in my life, individual therapy can help you identify and face those hard emotions you’ve tried to repress for so long as if you were not supposed to have them.

We will collaborate about what is working and what is not throughout therapy.

You will decide what works for you when you’re outside my room and what you would like to keep.

Through our work together, you will receive tools to help you rebuild a more secure foundation.

Our goal is to reduce your emotional stress.

One of the theories that I subscribe to when working with clients is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT). CBT poses that your emotions and behaviors begin with the cognitive space containing your thoughts. These thoughts or “hot cognitions” happen so quickly that you’re unaware of them before they impact your emotions.

CBT helps you identify those thoughts referred to as automatic negative thoughts. If we can change the thought, we can change the emotional response, thereby changing the negative consequence we often get when our emotions rule.

Increased awareness of the link between thoughts and emotions helps reduce the anxiety derived from worrisome thinking and the depression connected to rumination. CBT provides tools to help you refute and challenge negative thinking while moving toward positive thinking.

Individual therapy helped me, and I know it can help you. Explore your options, overcome that negative thinking, and learn to create a positive outlook as you journey through life. I am here to walk with you on this journey.

Please get in touch with me to discuss what creates stress and uncertainty in your life.