Individual therapy helps people process personal life challenges and transitions. It can focus on examining historical events and/or the present dynamics that cause individual distress. Individual therapy is often a combination of introspection and actional steps in order to create emotional or behavioral changes. This can include improving one’s self-image/self-esteem as well as working to increase effective communication with others in our lives.
Individual therapy can include:
- Increase emotional awareness
- Increasing communications
- Social concerns
- Romantic relationship challenges
- Familial issues
- Sexual orientation
- Gender identity
- Thoughts and feelings on sexual practices
- Life skill concerns
- Life transitions
- Grief
- Social Anxiety
- Depression
- Other mental health diagnosis
- Processing feelings on taking medication for mental and/or physical health needs