Individual Therapy can be utilized for many issues. People seek therapy to help solve current problems in their lives. These can look like things such as considering a job change, grieving, a break up, or needing to learn how to establish boundaries. However you can also utilize individual therapy on a deeper level, such as processing past traumas, uncovering patterns in your life that may not be serving you and learning self acceptance. No matter how big or small you may feel an issue is in your life, it always helps to have another person to listen who can be objective and provide honest caring feedback.
What Issues Can Individual Therapy Help With?
Can Therapy Help with Avoidance Issues?
Yes! Therapy gets to the root causes of behaviors and helps you to learn how to modify or change those behaviors and “avoidance” is a perfect example of a negative behavior that can be modified with therapy.
Does Therapy Help with Confidence Issues?
Yes! Before starting therapy, most people think that it will hurt ego, confidence, or self-esteem — especially if you already have these issues. However, those in therapy quickly understand how a session can be like opening-up to a friend, unloading your emotions and even over-sharing but still feeling comfortable. TYou will probably start building confidence subconsciously (without realizing it), but therapy can especially be a great first step into building confidence.
Can Therapy Help with Anger Issues?
Yes! Anger isn’t an issue if you have restraint and impulse control. A therapist teaches you these skills, among others.
Can Therapy Help with Intimacy Issues?
Yes! The root causes of intimacy issues live inside the emotions, thoughts and feelings of the individual. Your therapist helps you to understand how to become intimate with yourself so you can more comfortably and confidently be intimate with others.
How Therapy Helps You to Grow
The sign of life is growth. When we look at plants we know they are still alive because they continue to grow. This is true for people as well. In order for us to truly live we must keep growing. How we grow as an individual is up to each individual person. Individual therapy is a way to continue your growth as a person. Utilizing therapy to explore your strengths and weakness, behavior patterns, and how you express your thoughts and emotions.
There has long been a stigma around mental illness and therapy. The belief that only the mentally ill go to therapy or therapy is only for huge issues in your life is a belief that is melting away. People are now realizing the benefits of therapy. Benefits that can help with big issues; but also when you just need a place to talk with a person who is impartial to your life. A therapist truly wants to help you find the best decision for you and how to help you live your life in the most authentic way possible.
Nowadays we hear a lot about living authentically. You may wonder what authentic living means, and what are the benefits.
What does it mean to live Authentic?
When we live an authentic live our actions and words are in line with our beliefs and values. We are not doing or saying things because it is what we “should” do. In fact in authentic living there are no “should”. If I apologize, I did so because it is something I truly believe I needed to do. If I attend an event it is because I want to be present and not because I feel Like I “should” be there.
Many times our beliefs or what we should do has been handed to us from our parents or other family members. There is nothing wrong with these beliefs also being ours. However when we start to notice we are saying or doing things that just don’t feel right we may need to sit with someone and examine what beliefs were given to us and which ones we believe with our whole heart. Our values should align with our personality and spirit.
Individual Therapy can help you to learn to listen to your inner voice and let it guide you, how to make decisions that align with your values and beliefs and how to set boundaries and leave toxic situations. Utilize individual therapy to realize your true personality, values and spirit.
