Individual Therapy

Individual therapy is a powerful intervention for children, adolescents, or adults who are experiencing depression, anxiety, loss, or difficulty adjusting to transition and change. The goal remains the same, to enhance the individual's ability to manage one's feelings and behaviors, make sound decisions, achieve personal goals, realize potential, and feel more in charge of his or her life.

The nature, approach, and concerns encountered in individual therapy vary greatly depending on the stage of life of the client and the particular difficulty being experienced. For adults, individual therapy may be designed to address a particular difficulty one may be experiencing or in some cases, may be designed to assist those wishing to develop a better understanding of past issues and their relation to current behavior and feelings. With adolescents, and older, more verbal children, individual therapy may also be employed to address problems with depression and anxiety. In addition, issues related to self-esteem, school performance and behavior, family and peer interactions are concerns commonly encountered in individual treatment with older children and adolescents. Individual therapy for younger children, utilizes play and other techniques to foster expression of feelings, to work through concerns in a more developmentally appropriate and less threatening way, and to help modify the influence of obstacles to the child's continued growth and development. For children, there is also a strong family supportive component to the treatment.