What To Expect from Individual Therapy
Therapy isn’t just for dealing with a crisis. It can be helpful whether you are struggling with mental health challenges, experiencing high levels of stress, or simply want to gain more self-knowledge. Therapy empowers you with skills and tools to tackle the changes and stressors associated with the inevitable losses, growth opportunities and relationship challenges that life brings.
I provide neutral, caring support by listening intently and offering guidance, feedback, and insight. Together, we examine relationship patterns that may no longer be adaptive, and find new ways to have a healthier relationship with oneself, which allows for healthier relationships with others.
Benefits & Goals of Psychotherapy
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Self-awareness is the ability to assess your internal world. It allows you to notice and reflect on your internal state, allowing you to evaluate and manage your feelings and behaviors with curiosity. This awareness allows you then to more clearly reflect on your values, passions, aspirations, how they fit with your environment, evaluate reactions (including thoughts, feelings, behaviors, strengths, and weaknesses), and notice their impact on others.
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Emotional self-regulation is the ability to modify or control your thoughts, emotions, actions, and words. Self-regulating your emotional state can stop you from saying or doing things that might hurt others or yourself. Emotional self-regulation is an important part of empathy. Regulating your feelings and reactions gives you time to listen and take other people’s feelings into account. It also helps you handle disappointment and react rationally to changes that are out of your control.
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Motivation is the drive to achieve your goals or needs. Motivation is important to break old habits and to develop healthy ones. Many people struggle with getting and staying motivated, especially if they have mental health conditions such as depression or anxiety. Together we can look at the ways your current life stressors are interfering with you achieving your goals in work and in relationships.
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Whether you are currently having difficulties with relationships or not, improving your skills in this area is one of the most important benefits of therapy. The therapeutic model that I use centers around improving your relationship with yourself as a necessary means for improving your relationship with others. Communication skills start with learning how to accurately access your thoughts and feelings so that you can be clear as to what you need and expect from those around you.