“No need to hurry, no need to sparkle, no need to be anybody but oneself.”
– Virginia Woolf
What is Individual Therapy?
Individual therapy addresses emotional, psychological, and behavioral issues, often rooted in childhood. Patients are encouraged to explore thoughts, feelings, and experiences with the goal of finding themes in their ways of being in the world and in their way of relating to others. Through a guided exploration of past and current relationships, therapy helps individuals build self-awareness and develop healthy ways of relating to family, friends, and/or romantic partners.
Benefits of Therapy For Individuals
My Approach to Therapy for Individuals
If you find yourself overwhelmed, stuck, or struggling, you don’t have to be alone in your experience. I offer an active and evidence-based approach to work through life’s challenges with compassion and humor.
As a psychotherapist, my goal is to help you understand your difficulties and empower you to live life to your greatest capacity. My approach is warm, collaborative, and practical. It combines down-to-earth problem solving with a nuanced grasp of the conscious and unconscious, and the complex historical and current life factors that contribute to each client’s challenges. I integrate “psychodynamic” (i.e., insight-oriented), cognitive-behavioral (CBT), mindfulness, and attachment-based psychotherapies. I do so with kindness, light-heartedness, creativity, and humor. I create a safe, non-judgmental, and trusting therapeutic atmosphere where you can freely express yourself.
What to Expect in Therapy
I will help you learn more about yourself and your relationships, and develop practical interventions to help you live a more fulfilling life. I value the process of getting to know you as fully as possible. In my experience, the therapeutic relationship is a powerful and active agent for change. You can expect me to be active, curious, supportive, and compassionate. I ask questions, listen, and give feedback, thinking out loud with you and sharing my thoughts and feelings with you in real time. Over the course of therapy, you will develop insight into who you are and how you came to be, what patterns of thoughts/feelings/behaviors work for you now and which patterns used to work but are no longer adaptive, and you will become more aware of the moment-to-moment thoughts and feelings that impact your behavior, so that you can make more active choices in the present about how to respond to your thoughts/feelings/behaviors and make active change.
The Therapeutic Process
Is Individual Therapy Right for You?
Improving relationships is a powerful way to support individual happiness and mental wellness. If you’re struggling to connect with others or feel that something is missing in your relationships, therapy might be the answer.
