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Individual Counseling

Individual Counseling is an 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.
Counseling allows individuals to explore their feelings, beliefs, and behaviors, work through challenging or influential memories, identify aspects of their lives that they would like to change, better understand themselves and others, set personal goals, and work toward desired change.

 

Individual Counseling is the type of counseling the general public is most familiar with and is fundamental in identifying mental, emotional, behavioral and social concerns.

Benefits

The counseling usually takes place in the form of hour-long sessions, where the patients share their concerns, background and expectations. This conversation in individual counseling for adults helps build understanding between the patient and the counselor.

 

  • Privacy & Confidentiality – All counseling services are required to be confidential, and they’re in a one-on-one format, you can expect privacy and confidentiality from every one of your sessions.
  • Different Perspective – If you’ve talked to the same people in your life for a long time, you may feel you get the same advice from a subjective point of view. When you need a new perspective, individual counseling offers that clean slate. Talking to a clinician can give you the fresh start you’ve been looking for.
  • Identify & Address Emotional Reactions – People sometimes act irrationally without even realizing that they are doing it. Individual counseling can help with ways to deal with emotional challenges in a better manner, without giving in to anger, anxiety or depression.
  • Improved Relationships – Individual counseling helps to address concerns within relationships. Relationships improve with friends, loved ones, co-workers, and the community as a whole.

Methods

Professional clinicians employ a variety of methods in their work, and there are hundreds of clinical counseling methods to choose from. Some of the most common methods are:

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) – Helps people identify beliefs about self, those close to them, and their world that generate thought patterns that create distress. Clinicians work withpeople to challenge inaccurate beliefs and thoughts using evidence and reframe with accurate and less distressing ones.
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) – Helps people take responsibility for and find healthier ways of coping with conflict and intense emotions. DBT is often used with people who have experienced trauma and engage in self-harm, who are suicidal, and/or teens with more significant distress.
  • Psychodynamic Therapy – Focuses on the psychological roots of emotional suffering. Its hallmarks are self-reflection and self-examination, and the use of the relationship between therapist and patient as a window into problematic patterns in a person’s life.
  • Rational Emotive Therapy – Is a form of CBT in which a person’s distress is perceived as a function of irrational or faulty thinking. In other words, it is the client’s belief about a situation, rather than the situation itself. The clinician works with the client to examine their cognitive appraisals of how an event may have created an outcome.
  • Narrative Therapy – enables individuals to become experts in their own lives. Each of us has a story we tell ourselves about who we are as a person. y impacting our decisions, these narratives influence our ability to enjoy meaningful and satisfying experiences. Narrative counselors work collaboratively with clients to create alternate stories using a nonjudgmental, respectful approach.

Choosing a Counselor

Most counselors provide individual counseling; however, everyone’s life experiences are unique. It can be confusing to know what to look for in finding the best fit. Here are important considerations when choosing a therapist:

  • Experience– Everyone is unique as are the situations they experience, clinicians often have a wide array of experiences but may specialize in a particular method or aspect of counseling  and the way they deal with them are specific to their age group.
  • Personality & Rapport – The therapeutic relationship is as important a factor  at least as much as the particular treatment method. Factors such as age, gender, cultural background, sexual orientation and others may be considerations.