Individual Therapy

Individual Therapy is a process between an individual and a qualified mental health professional to co-create goals, increase self-esteem and confidence, inspire change and improve over-all quality of life. It can help people overcome obstacles and blockages to improve self-worth, to become more self-aware and grow past difficult situations.

Individual Therapy can be useful when an individual feels overwhelmed or hopeless about life. It can be a preventative measure of mental health care, to learn to navigate through life and learn new ways of coping with difficult thoughts, feelings, and sensations such as pain or fatigue before negative thoughts, feelings, and behavior become to severe.

It is important to find a therapist that you can trust and build rapport with to move past barriers of growth and become the best version of yourself possible. Individual therapy can help individuals learn strategies to manage:

  • Depression

  • Anxiety

  • Stress Disorders

  • Trauma

  • Anger Management

  • Parenting Issues

  • Relationship Concerns

  • Abandonment

  • Life Transitions

  • Weight Loss/Eating Concerns

  • LGBTQ Related Needs

  • Loss and Grief

  • Chronic Fatigue

  • Pre-Diabetes/Diabetes

  • Addiction

  • Autism Sprectrum

  • ADHD

  • Reactive Attachment Disorder

  • Chronic Pain

  • Memory and Aging

  • Medical Recovery

  • Chronic Disease Prevention & Support

  • Mood

  • Insomnia

  • Sexuality

There are many styles of therapy that can be used and is normally tailored to each individual’s needs.

CBT- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

DBT- Dialectic Behavioral Therapy

IPT- Interpersonal Psychotherapy

ACT- Acceptance and Committment Therapy

EFT- Emotion Focused Therapy

AFT- Attachment Focused Therapy

EMDR- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing

Psychodynamic Therapy-

We combine specific strategies of therapy combined with nature based interventions to improve effectiveess of personal growth.

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