Individual Therapy
Thank you for your interest in individual therapy. If you would like to schedule an initial consult, please feel free to call or email me directly, or you can click over to the scheduling page to request a consult time that works for you. For more information on individual therapy and what to expect, feel free to read more below.
What is individual therapy?
Psychotherapy focuses on the treatment of thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and relationships, utilizing tools of self-reflection and experiencing of thoughts and feelings during session to help make changes that improve personal experience and quality of life.
That said, what therapy actually looks like is a conversation, where you can be your truest, most honest self, say what you mean and feel openly, and air out who you truly are and want to be in a safe container that allows lots of room for trial and error and discovery.
How can therapy help me?
Clients often look forward to therapy to help find understanding for themselves around past formative or traumatic events, or to dig into deeper, more intractable relationship issues with family members, partners, work, spirituality, sense of purpose and meaning, or the questions of existence. It can help process through the sadness and hopelessness of depression, the uncertainty and tension of anxiety, and the intense mood experiences that can come with big emotions. We can explore your self-esteem and sense of belonging, your relationship to your body and your community, sibling and parent relationships, parenting stressors, and more. We can also help process through the events of the day or the previous week and help you clarify your thoughts and feelings around your present circumstances.
What to expect in therapy
To begin therapy, the first step is to have a brief consult call to discuss what you’re looking for and assess fit. You can schedule that here or call or email me. This initial call will be 15-20 minutes, for us to get to know one another a bit, and explore what you’re looking to get out of therapy.
Next, we will schedule a first appointment, at a pre-established rate. I will send you some paperwork in advance, in order for us to dive right in at your first appointment into what’s going on for you. Provided you wish to continue working together, I request that initial sessions take place weekly for at least the first three months, before we determine whether to move to a more sporadic schedule. That said, all of this is up for discussion at anytime and voicing your needs is encouraged.
Weekly sessions revolve around what is often known as “talk therapy,” or conversational exchange to assess what is happening in your world. Clients sometimes come in skeptical about the usefulness of this process - I welcome any expression of skepticism or uncertainty along the way, and encourage you to assess for yourself whether therapy is a process you find beneficial.
We can continue to work together as long as you like, provided you are finding benefit in the process. I will periodically check in to see how you think things are going, and what you might wish to focus on if it seems we are plateauing. My goal is to ensure that our time together is intentional and worthwhile for you, even if sometimes that means starting session unsure of what you want to talk about and being open to what might arise spontaneously.
I look forward to hearing from you if this sounds like a potential fit!
(323) 688-6771 // hello@nicpas.com