Adult Services

Individual Therapy for Adults

Your individual therapy will start by learning what has brought you to therapy. This may take a few sessions, as some concerns are straightforward and others are multi-layered and complex.  After gaining an understanding of what issues you want to address in individual therapy, we typically provide a verbal summary of the primary issues so we know we understand the problems to be addressed. 

While therapists are working toward understanding your concerns, we are also working towards building a relationship of trust that is warm and supportive. This is achieved through active listening, probing questions, and empathy. We value your feedback about how therapy is going and will periodically check in with you about this.

Our therapists see individual therapy as a healthy avenue to explore what is not working in your life and what might work better. Within the safety of the therapeutic relationship, you can learn to better handle emotions, think more clearly, and to change unwanted behaviors. Our therapists will help you identify barriers to growth and work with you to overcome them. 

There are many reasons adults seek individual therapy. Below is a list of some of the most common:

• Trauma or abuse history

• Feeling depressed or down on yourself

• Frequent feelings of guilt and shame

• The loss of a loved one

• Anxiety and stress

• Anger and impulsivity

• Significant change in circumstances

• Chronic feelings of emptiness

• Lack of meaningful relationships

• Uncertainty about relationships

• Loss of faith or questions about faith

• Difficulty sleeping

• Substance, gambling, internet, pornography abuse

Whatever your reason for seeking individual therapy, we are interested and eager to meet with you to see if we can help.

Marriage and Relationship Counseling

If you and/or your partner have considered couples counseling, it is probably a good idea to get started soon. Most problems in relationships improve quickly the earlier they are addressed. Nevertheless, most couples wait until serious damage has been done to seek counseling. Usually the damage includes extended periods of resisting, chronic criticism, or even infidelity. If you value your relationship and are thinking about seeking help, it is a good idea before things deteriorate. 

Whatever your situation, our therapists can help you. In couples counseling, we support and teach partners to communicate in new ways. We teach partners how to go from making criticisms about one another to lodging complaints about each other's behavior. Even this small shift can make a big difference. Often this work culminates in new language and new understanding.

We will help you identify when conversations with each other are productive and when they are not. Quite often, couples who are seeking help have gotten into patterns of ineffective communication. In fact, most unproductive arguments start off on the wrong foot and never recover. We will help you determine when this is happening and how to modify communication so that unproductive arguments can turn into productive disagreements, which can then turn into effective collaboration.

Finally, we challenge and guide partners to gain insight into how unfavorable views of one's self and one's partner lead to unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Therapists explore intergenerational patterns that impact the couple's relationship, and find new ways in which partners can be part of the extended family's fabric.

Whatever your reason for seeking couples counseling, we are interested and eager to meet with you to see if we can help.