Individual Counseling Begins with an Intake Appointment
All counseling sessions start with an Intake Appointment. This is when your counselor inquires and assesses your needs in order to create a counseling plan. Follow-up appointments will be provided thereafter.
Individual counseling is a personal opportunity to receive support and experience growth during challenging times in life. Individual counseling can help one deal with many personal topics in life such as anger, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, marriage and relationship challenges, parenting problems, school difficulties, career changes etc.
How counseling can help.
Therapists help clients with mental or emotional problems or disorders. They accomplish this through the related terms of counseling, therapy, and psychotherapy. A counselor is qualified to evaluate and treat mental problems by providing counseling or psychotherapy.
How counseling can resolve a life challenge?
According to the American Psychiatric Association, psychotherapy helps people understand that they can do something to improve their situation. That leads to changes that enhance healthy behavior, whether it's improving relationships, expressing emotions better, doing better at work or school, or thinking more positively.
Individual counseling appointments are one-on-one therapy sessions. You and your counselor will create a counseling plan so that you can make progress towards your goals.
Typical Topics:
- Stress
- Grief and loss
- Depression, anxiety, panic disorder
- Conflict resolution, anger, resentment
- ASD, ADHD, ADD: coping, stress / parents, siblings
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Bi-polar disorder
- Trauma recovery, post traumatic stress disorder
- Domestic violence
- Alcohol and drug abuse/dependence
- Other addictions (shopping, gambling, food)
- Relationships, codependency
- Career and personal growth
- Sex and pornography addiction
- Pre-marital and marriage counseling
- Pre- and post-baby counseling
- Divorce issues and recovery
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Parenting, children and adolescent issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflict
- Sexual problems
Benefits of Counseling
The counseling process is, in many ways, like an educational experience. The individual can learn more about him/herself, but also acquires new skills. Sometimes, counseling involves learning more about a particular condition (e.g., depression, anxiety, eating disorders) by which the person is affected, so that he/she can better understand treatment options.
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