Service Description

Individual therapy is a personal opportunity to receive support and experience growth during challenging times in life. Individual counseling can help one deal with many personal topics in life such as anger, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, marriage and relationship challenges, parenting problems, school difficulties, career changes, etc. Individual counseling (sometimes called psychotherapy, talk therapy, or treatment) is a process through which clients work one-on-one with a trained mental health clinician in a safe, caring, and confidential environment. Counseling allows individuals to explore their feelings, beliefs, and behaviors, work through challenging or influential memories, identify aspects of their lives that they would like to change, better understand themselves and others, set personal goals, and work toward desired change. Individual counseling is counseling focused on the individual's immediate or near future concerns. Individual counseling may encompass career counseling and planning, grief after a loved one dies or dealing with problems at a job before they become big. Individual counseling is a one-on-one discussion between the counselor and the client, who is the person seeking treatment. The two form an alliance, relationship or bond that enables trust and personal growth. What is psychodynamic therapy? Psychodynamic therapy is both a theory and a method —a unique process in which the client is encouraged to delve deep into their psyche to better understand their presenting problems, behaviors, and unconscious motivations. With roots in traditional psychoanalysis, it combines modern evidence-based techniques with the understanding that our past is always present. This approach explores your whole self: early attachments and attachment style, family history, personality, and present day functioning. Emotional and relational difficulties are all valid and inevitable parts of the human experience that are not only impacted by daily external stressors but also by our less obvious internal worlds. Our early life experiences, attachments, and memories create filters through which we perceive the world as adults and can interfere with our functioning, causing distress and limiting our potential. Psychodynamic therapy helps us understand why we act the way we do, why we feel the way we feel, and how to align our behaviors with values to reconcile deep internal conflict. This process often cannot be done alone.