Touchstone Trauma Therapy

Individual Therapy

What is Individual Therapy?

Individual therapy offers a private and secure environment where clients can explore and address personal issues and challenges. This one-on-one setting allows for deeply personalized therapeutic interventions tailored to each individual’s unique needs.

What to Expect

During individual therapy sessions, expect a supportive, compassionate, and engaging therapeutic environment where you can discuss personal issues freely. Sessions are focused on identifying your personal goals and collaboratively working towards them with various therapeutic techniques.

Benefits of Individual Therapy

Individual therapy provides numerous benefits that foster personal growth and enhance overall well-being:

  • Enhanced Self-awareness: Gain deeper insights into your motivations and behaviors, helping you understand the root causes of your feelings and actions.
  • Improved Coping Strategies: Develop effective methods for managing stress, anxiety, and emotional challenges, equipping you with the tools needed to face life’s obstacles.
  • Greater Emotional Resilience: Build strength to overcome challenges and achieve personal growth.
  • Building Trust in Others: Within the safe therapy environment, individuals learn to trust and experience a caring, compassionate relationship with their therapist. They learn to be vulnerable and open within the safety of the therapeutic relationship.

These collective benefits contribute to a more balanced and fulfilling life, where challenges are met with resilience and personal insight.

Our Approach to Individual Therapy

At Touchstone, we integrate a variety of therapeutic modalities to provide a comprehensive and personalized approach to individual therapy:

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Helps restructure negative thought patterns and promotes healthier behavioral responses. (Are we keeping this?)
  • EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing): Effective for processing and reducing the emotional impact of traumatic memories, facilitating better emotional regulation.
  • Internal Family Systems (IFS): Aids understanding and harmonizing different parts of one’s personality, promoting internal peace and self-acceptance.
  • Somatic/Mindfulness Techniques: Enhances present-moment awareness and helps manage emotional responses, improving overall mental clarity and stress management.

This tailored approach ensures that each client receives targeted treatment designed to address their specific issues and goals, facilitating effective and lasting change.

faqs

FAQ ABOUT Individual Therapy

Typically, sessions are weekly to biweekly, depending on individual needs.

It addresses a wide range, including anxiety, depression, grief and loss, addiction/co-dependency, relationship issues, and more.

Sessions usually last about 50 minutes.

Yes, confidentiality is fundamental, with some legal exceptions. Limits of confidentiality will be described fully in the Intake forms.

Therapists focus on emotional/behavioral issues; psychiatrists who are MDs can prescribe medications.

Come prepared to discuss your background and what you hope to achieve in therapy.

Therapists are skilled at guiding the conversation to relevant topics.

It’s important to communicate any discomfort with your therapist so they may work through the discomfort with you.

Clients notice a reduction of symptoms such as improvement in mood, decrease in anxiety, improvement in sleep, more interest in engaging socially with family and friends, and more motivation to begin and follow through on personal goals.

Yes, we accept United, Kaiser Permanente, Anthem Blue Cross, and Optum insurance plans.

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