Individual Therapy

Individual therapy often begins with a breaking point, rock bottom, or feeling that "something's off." It often has a focus of stopping unwanted or addictive behaviors, understanding relational distress, working through trauma, processing grief/loss, managing stress or simply feeling better. As treatment progresses, themes emerge around improving core psychological functions such as:

Working to expand your ability to access and observe how you feel, to be flexible and regulated emotionally, to understand and communicate your emotions.
Working to be more integrated and congruent with thoughts, feelings and behaviors, to be more like yourself more of the time
Working to increase your ability to reflect on your mental state, to think psychologically and to understand the mental state of others.
Working to improve relational capacity, to tolerate intimacy and separation, to differentiate between self and other, to attach securely
Working to improve your ability to feel good about yourself and within yourself, to feel confident and maintain self esteem.
Working to build greater impulse control, to understand addictive behaviors, to increase your ability to choose how to act.
Working to feel stronger, more assertive, better defended and adapted
Working to construct realistic standards, to find meaning and purpose, to recover motivation