Find Solutions To Your Problems With An Individual Therapist
Professional Individual Counseling Services At Finding Solutions
Do you struggle with a mental health condition or desire short-term therapy to work through a life transition? An individual therapist can provide you with the type of therapy you need. The benefits of individual counseling are long-term. At Finding Solutions, our team offers various forms of therapy depending on your personal needs.
What Is Individual Therapy?
Individual therapy, personal psychotherapy, or individual counseling is a process where a person works one-on-one with a trained clinician to explore and address personal issues, behaviors, feelings, and thoughts. The goal is to resolve a specific problem and reduce distress and mental pain. To do this, a therapist works with a person to help them understand and resolve emotional and psychological changes, foster personal growth, improve relationships, and develop better coping mechanisms. Techniques and treatment methods and the duration of individual therapy can vary depending on the therapist’s approach and the individual’s needs.
Individual Therapy vs. Couples, Relational, or Family Therapy
Individual therapy focuses on personal growth and addressing unique mental health concerns, while relational therapy, family therapy, or couples therapy centers on improving relationships, communication, and dynamics between people. For example, individual therapy might teach you the coping skills needed to deal with anxiety and depression, OCD, trauma, or another personal challenge. Meanwhile, family, couple, or relational therapy often focuses on breaking a negative pattern, strengthening connections, and creating healthier relationships.
Sometimes, the lines between individual and relational therapy can blur, leading individuals to engage in both simultaneously based on their specific needs and circumstances. Blurred lines often occur when an individual’s issues affect the couple or family unit.
Our Individual Therapists' Tailored Treatment Methods for Patients
Individual therapy techniques and interventions center on your internal world, cognitions, and behaviors. Therefore, therapists at Finding Solutions integrate techniques from multiple evidence-based approaches to tailor individual therapy sessions to your needs:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Identifies and challenges negative thought patterns and beliefs and uses behavioral experiments, exposure therapy, and desensitization to confront and change maladaptive behaviors. CBT is used to treat a wide range of mental illnesses and mental health issues, including depression, anxiety, OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder), addiction issues, substance abuse, and other mental health disorders.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
Combines cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness.
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT)
Explores the underlying dominant emotions and behavioral patterns fueled by these needs and uncovers suppressed feelings and underlying attachment needs.
Exposure and Response Therapy (ERP)
Gradual exposure to situations and specific activities or events that activate your fears. ERP is used to treat phobias, OCD, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and panic disorder.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
Enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress resulting from past traumas and disturbing life experiences. EMDR is used to treat concussions and PTSD.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Mindfulness and acceptance strategies and commitment and behavior-change strategies help individuals align actions with values. ACT is used to treat depression, mixed anxiety disorders, and OCD.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Exploring solutions and strengths rather than dwelling on problems, finding a client’s past solutions to present problems, setting specific goals, and working towards them.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Exploring solutions and strengths rather than dwelling on problems, finding a client’s past solutions to present problems, setting specific goals, and working towards them.
Gestalt Therapy
Focusing on the present moment and personal responsibility. Techniques like the empty chair exercise address unresolved issues.
Narrative Therapy
Viewing problems as separate from the individual. Re-authoring one’s narrative or story.
Experiential Therapies
Techniques that use expressive tools like art, music, or drama to process emotions.
Benefits Of Individual Therapy
If you or your friends or family could benefit from the following, you may want to reach out to Finding Solutions:
Improved mental health
Develop healthier coping strategies
Increased self-awareness
Gain insight into thoughts and feelings
Better communication skills
Sitting down with a trained therapist in a judgment-free zone can be life-changing. We create a safe and supportive environment where individuals can explore their thoughts feelings, and work toward wholeness. Your wellness, peace, relationships, and individual needs matter. Get help at Finding Solutions today!
Individual Relationship Therapist Near Me
Finding a therapist to work through your relationship is vital to healing. If you’ve been searching for couples counseling near you, but the idea of talk therapy with your partner sounds intimidating, you might hold off on couples therapy and consider an individual therapist. Starting with an individual therapist lets you create space to work through personal issues and helps you decide your next steps and goals before relational therapy.
Alternatively, suppose you are looking for the same therapist for couples and individual therapy. In that case, Finding Solutions offers this option as well, using a unique two-therapist model called Conjoint Couples Individual Counseling (CCIC). This approach lets you meet with your partner and therapist as well as individually with your therapist on the weeks between couples sessions.