Individual Therapy
Dealing with life issues
Problems come in many flavors.
You may be worried or unhappy, struggling with issues in your relationship or marriage. As a single parent, you are overwhelmed. You may want to be a parent, but infertility is prohibiting that from happening.
Perhaps you are muddling through the days and nights after the loss of a loved one.
Your job or career is constantly on your mind. Major decisions and life transitions are bogging you down. You are always questioning or rethinking your decisions. You may be worried and unhappy in general.
Although you are looking for support, problem-solving skills, and strategies to manage depression, anxiety, self-esteem, spiritual questions, and stress, you’re not sure where to find it.
You’re a busy, smart, competent, professional or parent… and overwhelmed!
Life hasn’t turned out the way you’d hoped. You’ve had some painful, challenging, or traumatic experiences in your life – maybe problems with work, relationships, kids, or your family.
Whether right now or in the past, everything is having an impact on your life today.
You’d like to think that you’ve “gotten over” or figured out how to deal with these troubling situations. You rationalize that these things happened so long ago that they don’t affect your functioning today. Yet, they’re constant distractions!
You can’t get them out of your mind. As hard as your try, those invasive thoughts can’t be controlled.
Life stressors, crises, and unexpected events often lead to symptoms of anxiety and depression that plague you today.
You can’t sleep, you’re irritable, and you worry. Life isn’t fun anymore. Everything’s getting harder to manage.
You keep telling yourself, “I can handle this.” But you can’t anymore. You’re miserable.
I’m fine!
Friends and family have no idea how much you’re suffering, and you don’t want to confide in them.
You feel weak and think you should be able to handle everything. You say to yourself, “Nobody knows that anything’s bothering me. I’m fine.” Do you really think that nobody notices your fearfulness, moodiness, or short temper?
You are pretending to be strong and competent, but instead you’re vulnerable, out of control, and frustrated. You’re exhausted!
You know that wine, food, and your usual go-to coping mechanisms aren’t healthy. They’re not working anymore. You want to be able to make better decisions and live a freer and happier life, but you can’t do it alone.
Life’s challenges can leave you feeling angry, sad, frustrated, and discouraged. It doesn’t have to be this hard!
You want to feel better! You are looking for ways to make things better, but you can’t do it on your own. You need a warm, kind person and a safe place to explore new ways of thinking, understanding, and resolving these difficult issues.
Psychotherapy can help!
If you’re ready to take responsibility for your actions, create greater awareness in your life, and work toward self-change, therapy can help.
Maybe you’re feeling awful, and therapy is a last resort. It doesn’t matter. Your coping skills are no longer working, creating depression, guilt, doubt, anxiety, and despair.
You’ve come to the right place.
Why individual therapy?
It’s time to take care of yourself!
Life is out of control. It’s hard to get out of bed every morning and face the next, and the next, and the next unmanageable problem. You’re too tired to function as your best self, but you no longer have the energy or concentration.
You might snap at your partner or coworker, or have no patience for your family. Everything just piles on. The newspaper’s wet, your carpool or train is late, you forgot your lunch, you have too many meetings and deadlines today, and you don’t have anything for dinner.
Maybe it’s the most important game, meet, or recital of your child’s year, but you are unable to get motivated.
It’s only 8 am, and you’re on the fourth cup of coffee – but it isn’t helping. Your head is ready to explode, and all you want to do is scream. You know that you cannot go on like this. Everything and everyone in your life is suffering – especially YOU!
Individual therapy can help you manage the unrelenting demands in your life. If you’re looking for self-exploration and personal growth, individual therapy can provide support, problem-solving skills, and strategies.
A supportive therapist can help you learn new ways to cope with depression, anxiety, lack of confidence or self-esteem, relationship problems, unresolved childhood issues, grief, spiritual conflicts, and stress management.
Now is the time for change, and time to see a therapist!
Call me, and let’s chat for 15 minutes. Here’s where you will find the support and guidance to take charge of your life and put the smile back on your face!
How does this work?
If it works for you, we’ll make an appointment, probably for next week. I can email all the forms to you so that you can complete ahead of time and bring them with you.
When you arrive at my easy-to-find office, you can relax in the shared waiting room. Breathe! Nothing terrible is going to happen to you! In fact, you’ve just opened the door to a better life.
I’ll come out and meet you, and we’ll walk back to my comfortable office. There we’ll meet for about 50 minutes.
At the first session, we’ll chat and talk about what’s troubling you right now, the things that are bringing you to therapy. Anything you say will be held in the strictest confidence.
At the end of the first session, we will talk about your goals and devise a plan. We’ll schedule the next session. If you feel the need for more than one session in a week, we can work that out.
“Okay, I think I can do this in one or two sessions. Is that okay?”
Maybe, if that works for you. Sometimes you can get what you need with a 6-8 session, short-term model of psychotherapy. Sometimes it takes longer. You may want support for an extended period of time.
I don’t ask you to commit for any length of time. All I ask is that if you commit to an appointment, you show up.
What are you waiting for?
You’re staring at the website. Email, text, or call me at (301) 309-8077, and we’ll get started.