Individual Therapy

Individual work is an opportunity to make focused progress on your goals. The primary agents of change in psychotherapy are your level of motivation and willingness, the relationship with your therapist, and the modalities and theoretical orientation.

It’s normal to walk into a therapy session feeling unsure, not wanting to be there, guarded, and anxious at any point in your treatment journey. Your motivation and willingness are more tied to the reasons you came to therapy in the first place than how you might feel on a given day. The therapeutic relationship is consistently one of the best tools in treatment. Why? Because we are harnessing the power of the way we have coped with hardship since the beginning of human history, connection. Similar to our immune system, which fights infections and diseases, connection and relationship have been our frontline defense against emotional pain since time immemorial. The relationship with your therapist involves using this tool with some additions to make it safe and more effective. Then comes the theory and modalities. I am not of the school that says methods are nearly irrelevant next to the relationship. I firmly believe that the proper understanding and methods are crucial for the process to be most effective.

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate." 

-Car Jung