Individual Therapy

You’re never too old or too young to seek therapy.

It might be your first time or your fifth time. Therapy is a way to sort through your emotional or illogical thoughts and provide meaning for how you behave – behaviors that create challenges and obstacles, squashing your success and happiness.

Maybe challenges from childhood continue to haunt you – bullied for your differences, witnessing your parents’ messy divorce, or ridiculed for questioning your sexual identity.

Are you quick to anger, snapping at those you care about most? Has your anxiety become a personal prison keeping you lonely, draining you of your motivation, and paralyzing you with fear?

Do you keep yourself busy, putting your needs behind everyone else’s? You seem to be accomplishing all the wrong things.

Perhaps you’re constantly questioning your life decisions: job, relationship, kids . . .

Plagued with emotions and thoughts you don’t know how to handle…

Your negative self-talk is endless – constantly playing in the background.

“I am not deserving.”
“I’m so lazy.”
“I’ll never be good enough.”
“I’m so broken because my family life was so chaotic and harmful.”
“I feel like I am never heard. I’m told to ‘just blend in. Your opinion doesn’t matter.'”

You are sad more days than not, crying every day, and struggling to get out of bed.

No one asks or cares about your actions or feelings.

Trapped in hours of mindlessly scrolling on social media…

It is, however, not mindless – it’s intentional.

Comparing ourselves is a social fact, but it’s what we do with the comparison. We must stop letting it destroy our self-esteem and predict our future success and happiness.

We think it will help motivate us to do more because we will be like someone else, but better. In turn, we end up bullying ourselves. We start to form resentments and feel envious, fueling our unwanted identity and circular pattern of media surfing, thinking we’re avoiding and trying not to feel.

Finally, you heighten your awareness when you start questioning your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors like you are today by reading through the website narratives. It allows you to move away from judgment and move toward curiosity.

I know you want to feel connected, happy, and healthy in relationships.

We all do.

And if you’re not there, you’re probably desperately hoping that therapy will help you make the changes you’ve been unable to make on your own.

Because you are already here, you know therapy is a great option for you.

When you start to care for yourself better, you start to see yourself better, show up for yourself differently, and attract different people and energy.

You have already started – you showed up today for you.

I will lead the call or the written exchange. There is no wrong thing to say – you will get it 100% right.

>Individual therapy is 110% about YOU!

It is a time to express your inner “secrets.”

You know… those thoughts and feelings we hesitate to share with ANYONE. These might include knowing you shouldn’t have gotten married, having an affair, realizing you didn’t want kids, struggling with self-harm and thoughts of suicide, feeling lost, having no self-esteem, and having nothing making you happy.

The four walls of my office provide the protection you need to release what has been holding you back. These thoughts and feelings are your facts and truths – they should be free of moral judgment, which is where I come in.

If we do not speak our secrets, we will continue not to know ‘why’ we think and feel the way we do, and we will continue with our life. We adopt many beliefs in life and develop rules that we live by, bringing us to the present moment.

I will help provide clarity and insight. I will present teachings and skills that we will practice allowing you to release grief, hurt, anger, and defensiveness, and find and embrace love, trust, joy, happiness, and gratitude.

Rapport is important.

Feeling energetically comfortable with your therapist is essential. We all have our energies – physical, emotional, and mental. As a trained practitioner and healer, I assess and properly hold space with support and calmness. I am skilled in nudging and pushing when appropriate and pausing when necessary. Your self-trust, energetic balance, and truth will be repaired and restored through empowerment.

This healing journey won’t always be easy.

It requires trust in me and honesty with yourself. Unfortunately, we become familiar with guilt and shame and start to bury our feelings. We choose not to feel and learn to become numb. So, it becomes uncomfortable to acknowledge our emotions and feelings when we start the therapy process.

You might not know what to talk about in session. We can uncover a lot from conversations and life stories. When we hide, we halt progress. I will help provide context and string examples together to make sense of why you do what you do and how you feel, and when we know why, we are more open to accepting and feeling.

We’ll have some fun and laughs, too.

Humor leads to acceptance. Smiling and laughing change a feeling. It allows us to take ourselves a little less seriously. It brings fun back into life. Kids have fun, and as we age, our responsibilities grow – we lose our innocence. Therapy brings our purity and altruistic self back to life.

It also alters how we see, hear, and feel. We can generate a new feeling by learning to create a new perspective. You can get yourself into a confident state by recalling a time when you felt confident by visualizing it through pictures, sounds, and feelings. Who was there; what were people saying? It puts you back in control of your emotions.

Having fun again allows you to start living and telling a different life story.

In therapy, I’ll help you by…

Guiding you through your patterns…

Of how you think, feel, and behave. You will come to know yourself better than you have before. You will have control over your life again. You will do things that you want to do. You will make decisions without waiting for the guidance of others. Your words and your voice will be different. The inner critic will become quiet. You will become an upgraded version of yourself, 2.0. It is time for you to be the priority, to make yourself happy.

Giving you tools to succeed…

You will be learning in every session. There will also be things that I will ask you to think about and practice between sessions. I will continue to remind you that 80% is perfect; when we start to take action, be prepared not to be immediately great at it. You did not learn your old negative coping skills overnight. And, if you are afraid of trying something for the first time, everything we do we have done it the first time.

Encouraging you to apply your newly acquired skills…

They will start to come naturally. You might even think, “Is this therapy thing even working?” Then someone will say something about how you seem different, and then you know. You are well on your journey rediscovering your likes and dislikes, confirming your new identity, and attracting the people and experiences to support the happy you.

Your time is now.

Take your life back.

Stop being a pretzel and letting everyone be in charge of your twists and turns.

Let’s rediscover the best version of you.

Call now (617) 620-1072 or email me.