Individual Counseling

BREAK FREE…

Individual counseling (sometimes called psychotherapy or talk therapy, ) is a process through which clients work one-on-one with me in a safe, caring, and confidential environment. Counseling allows individuals to explore their feelings, beliefs, and behaviors, work through challenging or influential memories, identify aspects of their lives that they would like to change, better understand themselves and others, set personal goals, and work toward desired change. Often people are wounded by past experiences that disrupts their life and I help you identify the wound (trauma) and use treatment aimed at reducing or eliminating the trauma response.

As of late since what our world has experienced with the pandemic, I am finding more people of all ages questioning the meaning of life, and what can they do to make a better life after experiencing so many challenges and losses. Its a time of lots of reflection and often confusion as we try to unfold our new world. A therapist cannot change the state of the world but can be a a sounding board to listen to your thoughts and help organize them and take action. I provide tools to help quiet the hamster wheel we have going in our brain to allow time to sit and process our thoughts. It also is such a support to talk to someone and normalized your thoughts since we could think we are going off the deep end. Now more then ever, its important to search and discover what is this “new you” you are discovering.

Many of my individual clients are seeking help for personal growth and many wanting to break away from dysfunctional family of origin patterns.

A lot of my work with individuals lately has been individuals overwhelmed living within “two worlds” because their parents are immigrants with traditions that are difficult to balance for the young adult that is more acculturated to life in the United States. My job as a therapist is to put myself in my clients place and its so important that I be educated and aware of the diversity in our community, their values, beliefs, traditions and work with my client from their lens.