Sometimes the best modality of treatment, regardless of a person’s family status, is individual therapy. Individual concerns are often around emotional processing, struggles with live transitions, or dissatisfaction with our relationships with others. Individual therapy may look at our personal relationships with work, alcohol, drugs, our kids, our families, or ourselves to balance or promote healthier connections.

Counseling/Coaching
There are times in most people’s lives when extra guidance or mentoring is worthwhile and beneficial. You are a good candidate for individual counseling should you be seeking support during times of change, desiring to improve your skills in interpersonal relationships, or are struggling with any of the concerns listed below.

Addiction counseling
Additive behavior affects clients from all walks and stages of life.  Addiction counseling focuses on both the recovery from substance abuse or dependence and the creation of new identities and social supports. My role as a therapist is to help the person discover which modality of addiction recovery will work for them, and finding community supports to strengthen sober living practices.

Anxiety and Depression
Anxiety and depressions are seen most often in individual therapy sessions. Depressions and worry are situational based, or have a long history in the lives of clients.  Sessions focus on discovering the depth of the emotions, the level of debilitation, and finding new coping strategies and skills.

Women’s Issues
I have seen these “issues” appear in sessions through the mask of disordered eating, domestic dominance, isolation, stress, depressions, insecurities, and recovery from molest and other sexual crimes.  In the process of counseling, we may look at the concepts of womanhood and femininity, and assess how these concepts may be hindering your life and relationships. I may question your contribution of opinions to the roles we take in marriage, relationships, and families. These conversations are a means to support and strengthen women’s identities and voices and to move away from hurtful, dominate notions of womanhood.

Anger management
Sessions focusing on anger management highlights the effects and consequences of anger on our lives.  The therapist and client use reading and homework to understand the role of anger and to discover alternate ways of anger expressions.