You feel overwhelmed, lost, and hopeless. You’re struggling to get back to your “normal self” or having trouble working through things on your own.
But what if you could evolve into something even better than your previous normal self and use the crappy stuff you’ve been dealing with to grow into an even stronger and more amazing version of yourself?
Individual therapy can help you learn how to: Move closer to your personal, career, and relational relationship goals. Cope effectively with stress and worry. Overcome depression and grief. Improve your social skills and your ability to connect to others.
Individual therapy can help you learn how to: Move closer to your personal, career, and relational relationship goals. Cope effectively with stress and worry. Overcome depression and grief. Improve your social skills and your ability to connect to others.
Our first session is to listen to your concerns, based on the information you provide, recommendations will be made regarding the focus and desired outcomes of counseling. The strategies and approach used during counseling will be determined by your specific goals and personality type.
We are here to accompany you on your path to healing in a non-shaming, non-pathologizing way.
We’ll identify tangible things you can do to start to improve your life, as well as look at how past events may be contributing to your unease.
We know that things grow under pressure, like diamonds, plants, and muscles. That’s true for psychological processes, too. By that logic, psychological pressure is not only good, but necessary for discovering more about who we are and who we can be.
However, the key to this growth factor is a good therapist who can act as a guide for applying just the right amount of pressure at just the right time.
When looking for a therapist, the letters behind their name can describe their training. Some examples: Education Level: MA, MS, Med: Masters Degree. PHD, PsyD, EdD: Doctoral Degree License: LPC, LCSW: Licensed therapist,(Professional Counselor, Clinical Social Worker) Completed supervised hours PLPC, PLCSW: Provisional therapist, Working on supervised hours after obtaining graduate degree
Therapy sessions are typically 45-50 minutes, while groups run longer per session. Clients typically meet on a weekly or bi weekly basis depending on the client’s needs. Length of time while in therapy will depend on the individual client’s circumstance. The therapist and client will determine that together.
In order to preserve the continuity of care, it’s important to work with school counselors, pediatricians, primary care physicians, psychiatrists, etc. With written permission, therapists can provide treatment plans or answer questions that other professionals may have. If a client needs their therapist to work with other professionals in their life, please don’t hesitate to ask.
As mental health therapists / counselors the scope of treatment is talk-therapy. Typically therapists have their masters degree, and yearly cont. education. While, psychologists also provide counseling services they also provide psychological testing for schools, courts and other entities. Psychiatrists tend to limit their talk therapy / counseling services and are typically available for medication management. If your therapist feels that you may need medication, they will provide you with a referral to doctors that they may recommend. A psychiatrist is a medical doctor that specialists in behavior. If medication is necessary, typically in these clients, medication and talk therapy are used together. Medication therapy is not a replacement for talk therapy.