Individual Therapy
I offer nonjudgmental and affirming individual therapy sessions that are tailored to your needs. Individual therapy offers a private space where you can feel safe to explore the full spectrum of your emotions and experiences. We will work collaboratively to uncover and build on your strengths, navigate challenges, and work towards your goals.
Common Topics in Individual Therapy
Your voice being heard is the most important thing in our work together, and we can talk about anything that feels important to you in our sessions.
Below are some common topics that can be explored:
Anxiety, stress
Depression
Relationship patterns, family dynamics
Navigating life transitions (career, identity, health, moving etc.)
Processing & healing from trauma
Substance use and recovery support
Boundaries and building emotional resilience
Therapy for Anxiety & Depression
Anxiety
While everyone experiences anxiety at times, if your anxiety has begun to interfere with your daily life, relationships, sense of self, and impacted your ability to live the life you want to live, individual therapy can help you understand the root of your anxiety and build skills that help you get back to the life you want.
Anxiety can look feel like persistent worry and overthinking, panic attacks, emotional overwhelm, and physical tension and experiences like a racing heart, sweating, shallow breathing, and trembling. One form of anxiety, known as generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), can feel like you are constantly waiting for something to go wrong and a frequent a sense of worry without a clear cause. Another form of anxiety, known as social anxiety disorder, is when the anxious worries and physical symptoms happen specifically in social settings and often center on a fear of being judged or embarrassed.
Depression
Depression can show up differently for everyone, but often can make even simple daily tasks like getting out of bed feel exhausting and overwhelming. Your depression may show up as numbness, a profound sense of disconnection or isolation, feeling persistently sad and/or hopeless, struggling to sleep or sleeping too much, a loss of interest in the things you enjoyed before, a change in energy and appetite, and more.
If any of these experiences ring true for you, I’m here to hold space for you and help carry the load so you can find your way back to you.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety & Depression
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based approach that can be incredibly beneficial in treating both anxiety and depression through recognizing and shifting thought patterns and behaviors.
CBT can help with:
recognizing negative thought patterns you get stuck in
challenging negative self-talk
reframing anxious and negative thoughts
learning and implementing healthier coping skills in daily life
increasing motivation and strengthening emotional resilience
learning ways to ground and calm yourself in times of heightened anxiety
building small, manageable stepping stones towards change
While CBT is shown to be a powerful tool in working with anxiety and depression, I believe in working collaboratively with you to tailor your treatment to your own unique needs and find what works best for you. I value using multiple perspectives and techniques to accommodate your needs, and believe that as a client in the counseling process you not only are an expert on yourself, but also often already possess the tools you need, and my job is to work with you to uncover them.
Therapy for Life Transitions
Change is one of the only constants in life, and sometimes when we experience big changes and life transitions, the stress can feel overwhelming and difficult to manage. Whether it is impacting your well-being, relationships, or other areas of your life, therapy can help you build on your strengths and capacity to cope.
Therapy provides a safe and non-judgmental space to explore what you’re experiencing, gain understanding of how you respond to stress and change, navigate internalized narratives around perfection and what ‘should’ be, establish boundaries where needed, and help reconnect to what is most important for you.
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