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Personalized Approach to Healing

Our approach to individual therapy is tailored to meet your specific needs. You’ll work one-on-one with a licensed psychologist or therapist who will collaborate with you to develop a personalized treatment plan that will address your unique concerns and goals.

With a combined 40 years of practice serving the community, our experienced clinicians are committed to helping you navigate life’s challenges and achieve long-lasting mental well-being.

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Evidence-Based Therapeutic Modalities

Our clinicians utilize various evidence-based therapeutic modalities to address a wide range of mental health concerns:

Supportive Psychotherapy

Supportive psychotherapy is a highly adaptable, client-centered therapeutic approach designed to provide emotional support, encouragement, and practical guidance to individuals facing psychological or life challenges. It is widely utilized for a broad spectrum of mental health concerns and everyday difficulties.
  • Prioritizes validation, empathy, and building a strong, trusting therapist-client relationship.
  • Addresses immediate issues and current needs, rather than focusing solely on the past.
  • Incorporates techniques such as active listening, reassurance, psychoeducation, and collaborative problem-solving.
  • Strives to alleviate distress, foster strengths, and enhance overall coping and daily functioning.
  • Helps reduce symptoms of depression, anxiety, and related mental health issues.
  • Boosts self-esteem and confidence.
  • Strengthens coping skills for handling stress and life’s challenges.
  • Improves communication and problem-solving abilities.
  • Builds resilience and nurtures a more optimistic outlook.
  • Enhances relationships and social connections.
  • Provides a safe, supportive space for emotional expression and self-discovery.

These wide-ranging benefits make supportive psychotherapy an excellent option for individuals seeking meaningful emotional support and practical strategies for personal growth.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a structured, time-limited approach that has been proven effective for numerous mental health conditions. CBT helps you identify and change negative thought patterns that affect your emotions and behaviors.

  • Recognize distorted thinking patterns that contribute to psychological distress
  • Challenge and reframe negative thoughts
  • Develop and practice problem-solving skills
  • Build resilience and emotional regulation capabilities
  • Create healthy behavioral patterns
  • Depression
  • Anxiety disorders
  • Phobias
  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Sleep disorders
  • Eating disorders
  • Substance use disorders
  • Bipolar disorders
  • Schizophrenia

Many clients experience significant improvement within 12-20 sessions, making CBT an excellent therapeutic option that can be combined with medication management when appropriate.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

EMDR is a specialized therapeutic approach designed to help you process traumatic memories and reduce their psychological impact. This evidence-based therapy uses bilateral stimulation (usually eye movements) while you briefly focus on traumatic memories, allowing your brain to process these experiences in a new, less distressing way.
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Anxiety and panic disorders
  • Grief and loss
  • Phobia
  • Childhood traumas
  • Performance anxiety

Our EMDR-trained therapists offer this specialized treatment in a safe and supportive environment.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

DBT combines cognitive-behavioral techniques with mindfulness practices to help you develop essential life skills.

  • Mindfulness: Staying present and fully engaged in the moment
  • Distress tolerance: Managing crises without making situations worse
  • Emotional regulation: understanding and managing intense emotions
  • Interpersonal effectiveness: Navigating relationships effectively while maintaining self-respect

This approach is particularly helpful for those experiencing intense emotional responses or struggling with relationship difficulties.

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Psychodynamic psychotherapy is a depth-oriented approach that explores how unconscious processes, past experiences, and relationships affect your current feelings, behaviors, and relationships. This therapeutic modality helps you develop insight into patterns that may be contributing to your difficulties.

  • Complex emotional difficulties
  • Relationship patterns that cause distress
  • Long-standing personality concerns
  • Issues related to self-esteem and identity
  • Unresolved trauma or grief
  • Understand how past experiences influence present behaviors
  • Explore unconscious feelings and thoughts that affect your well-being
  • Identify and understand recurring patterns in relationships
  • Develop greater self-awareness and emotional freedom
  • Process unresolved conflicts and experiences

This form of therapy often involves a deeper exploration that may extend over a longer period of time than other approaches, allowing for more profound personal growth and lasting change.

Solution-Focused Therapy

This goal-oriented approach concentrates on present-day challenges and future solutions rather than past experiences. Solution-focused therapy can help you:

  • Identify clear, achievable goals
  • Recognize and build upon existing strengths and resources
  • Create practical solutions to current problems
  • Focus on what’s working versus what isn’t

This approach is often short-term and can be highly effective for specific, defined challenges.

Mindfulness-Based Interventions

Our therapists incorporate mindfulness practices to help you develop greater awareness, acceptance, and compassion toward yourself and your experiences. These interventions can reduce stress, improve focus, and enhance overall emotional well-being.

Other Psychiatric Conditions

We provide care for a broad range of clinical diagnoses, including Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), personality disorders, substance use disorders, and obsessive-compulsive and related disorders. Our personalized treatment plans combine evidence-based therapies, medication management, and ongoing support to help each individual achieve optimal mental wellness.

Telehealth Therapy

We offer secure, HIPAA-compliant telehealth appointments for individual therapy. This option is ideal for patients with busy schedules, transportation challenges, or those who prefer to receive care from the comfort of their home.

You’ll work with the same trusted therapists using the same evidence-based methods, just virtually. Let us know during intake if you’d like to explore telehealth as part of your care.

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What Individual Therapy Can Help With

Individual therapy can address a wide range of challenges, including:

  • Managing symptoms of mental illness
  • Preventing relapse of mental health symptoms
  • Developing healthy coping strategies for life stressors
  • Identifying ways to manage difficult emotions
  • Resolving relationship conflicts
  • Improving communication skills
  • Processing grief and loss
  • Overcoming emotional trauma related to abuse or violence
  • Coping with medical illness
  • Managing chronic physical symptoms

Frequently Asked Questions

The duration of therapy will vary depending on your needs and goals. Some focused issues could be addressed within 8-12 sessions, while more complex concerns could benefit from long-term therapy. Your therapist will discuss expectations regarding duration during your initial visit and will regularly revisit your progress and treatment plan.

We maintain strict confidentiality in accordance with professional ethics and state laws. Information shared in therapy remains private with a few exceptions, such as when there is a risk of harm to yourself or others, or in cases of suspected abuse of children or vulnerable adults.

Individual therapy often works well alongside other treatments. Many clients benefit from combining therapy with medication management, group therapy, or other complementary approaches.