Individual Therapy

Embracing Personal Growth Through Individual Therapy

Life presents us with numerous challenges and decisions that can sometimes feel overwhelming. When these difficulties begin to affect your sense of self and your ability to live fully, seeking support can be a crucial step towards finding balance and fulfillment.

Individual therapy provides a dedicated space for you to explore and address the underlying issues impacting your life. This confidential setting allows you to focus on personal growth and self-discovery, enabling you to overcome obstacles and achieve a more satisfying and balanced life.

When Is Individual Therapy Beneficial?

Individual therapy is particularly valuable when:

You’re feeling stuck or uncertain about your direction in life.
You’re dealing with significant stressors or changes and need support in managing them.
You’re seeking to understand and change patterns of behavior that are holding you back.

Whether you’re facing major life transitions, grappling with personal challenges, or seeking to improve your overall well-being, individual therapy offers a tailored approach to address your unique concerns. Common areas explored in therapy include:

Coping with stress and anxiety.
Managing life transitions, such as career changes or major life events.
Balancing multiple roles and responsibilities, from professional demands to personal commitments.

What to Expect from Individual Therapy

Frequency and Duration: Many clients begin with weekly sessions, adjusting to bi-weekly or as-needed appointments as they make progress. Typically, therapy involves 6-8 sessions, although more extensive support may be necessary for deeper issues, such as chronic anxiety or depression.

Session Structure: Each session is designed with your needs and privacy as the priority. Sessions usually last 53 minutes. While occasional homework assignments may be suggested, they are not mandatory. In our initial session, we’ll explore your background, current challenges, and goals. Subsequent sessions will focus on identifying and modifying unhelpful patterns, achieving your goals, and addressing any emerging issues.

Flexibility and Progress: Throughout therapy, we will continually assess your progress and adapt the approach as needed. If beneficial, we may integrate specific techniques or exercises to support your personal development. Your comfort and preferences will always guide the therapeutic process.

Transitioning: Upon reaching your goals or resolving specific issues, we may discuss whether continuing therapy or transitioning to different forms of support might be beneficial for your ongoing growth and well-being.

Understanding Individual Therapy

Individual therapy can provide significant insights and strategies to help you navigate personal challenges and enhance your overall quality of life. If you’re uncertain whether individual therapy is the right path for you, I encourage you to contact me for a complimentary phone consultation. We can discuss your needs and explore how therapy can support your journey towards a more fulfilling life.

Therapeutic Approaches: The methods used in therapy are tailored to your specific needs and may include:

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Existential Psychotherapy
Psychodynamic Therapy
Motivational Interviewing

Feel free to reach out to schedule your consultation. Together, we can work towards uncovering and addressing the issues that matter most to you, paving the way for meaningful personal growth and enhanced well-being.

Prepare/Enrich Premarital Services

The Prepare-Enrich Program

Prepare-Enrich is a structured 8 session counseling program which focuses on preparing couples for healthy marriages before they take that step, and enriching marriage for those couples who are already married.

During your Prepare-Enrich sessions, you and your partner will work on many different areas of your relationship to ensure a strong foundation for your future:

Your relationship strength and growth areas
Communication skills
Conflict resolution skills
Financial management
Sex and affection
Relationship roles & household division of labor
Expectations and beliefs about marriage
Decisions about parenthood
Decisions about the role of religion and spirituality in your marriage
Handling personal stress in healthy ways
Your family background (family-of-origin) similarities and differences, and how these may impact the marriage
Your personality similarities and differences, and how these impact your relationship dynamics
Short and long-term goals you both share as a couple

I strongly believe in the program and the science on which it is based. I’ve found that every couple that I’ve used it with so far has found great value in the program and many have reported using the skills and materials long after completing it.

Overall, I think it’s a great way to examine and strengthen all areas of your relationship, especially in preparation for marriage.

Frequently Asked Questions about Prepare-Enrich

What is PREPARE-ENRICH?

Prepare-Enrich is a program designed for marriage preparation (for engaged couples or those thinking about marriage) and marriage enrichment (for couples who are already married).

For detailed information about it directly from the creators, click below.

How does it work?

The real program can only be accessed through a trained Prepare-Enrich facilitator.

As a trained facilitator for the program, I always recommend an initial assessment session of couples therapy to discuss your relationship and if the program is appropriate for you and your partner.

If it’s a good fit, you have the option of starting the program with me during session #2 or doing traditional couples therapy.

After your initial assessment session, couples who decide to do the program begin by taking an online test at home. This takes most people 20-30 minutes.

Then, your results are sent to me via email. Once I receive the results, I prepare your personalized couples report and review the results of it with you during our sessions.

Each session consists of reviewing your results in select areas and completing program activities with my guidance. You will receive activities from me in your couples workbook.

Between sessions, there will be homework for you and your partner to complete before returning for your next session.

How much does it cost?

The only cost for the program (in addition to my session fee) is a $35 fee. This is paid when you take the online test at home and goes directly to the company which created the program.

This fee covers the report fee per couple (so for both you and your partner) and must be paid by credit card online.

Beyond that, your cost would be the same for each session as it would be with traditional couples therapy with me. See current session fees.

If budget is a concern – as it is for many couples who are also paying for wedding expenses – we can discuss doing fewer of the program sessions or spacing them out to help you afford the full program.

I strongly recommend completing the full program but if that is not a possibility for you and your partner, I’d encourage you to complete a minimum 4 of the program sessions before ending.

You should also check to see if your state offers a discount on your marriage license for completing premarital counseling. This can help offset the cost of the program.

How long does it take to complete?

The full program can be done in 8 standard sessions with me. My standard sessions are 50-minutes each.

I require that couples start with an initial assessment session with me (a non-program session), and then we will begin the program at session #2, assuming that it is a good fit for you and your partner.

In total, I encourage couples to plan for 9 sessions (1 assessment session + 8 program sessions).

Some couples also opt to schedule a follow-up session 1-2 months after completion of the program. This is recommended but completely up to you and your partner.

The Prepare-Enrich premarital counseling program seems to work best for couples who are getting married within the next 6-12 months, or who have just recently married. However, many couples do the program 1-2 months before their wedding.

If you are on a tight time frame, we can discuss possibly condensing the program to fewer than 8 sessions (e.g., 6-7 extended sessions). Or you can opt to begin it before your wedding and complete the remaining sessions a few weeks after it.

Most all of the couples I have worked with have found it useful and choose to complete the full program even if they have to space it out over several weeks.

Do you use the program with all types of couples?

Yes. I enjoy working with a diversity of couples!

I am LGBTQ friendly, kink friendly and poly friendly. I’m also open to working with couples who are interracial, intercultural, interfaith, religious or non-religious, liberal, conservative, etc.

The Prepare-Enrich program offers slight variations for couples who are religious, and for couples who are parents.

Parts of the program activities do make certain assumptions that do not seem to fit many modern couples. For example, the organization of the questions about sex and affection may assume that couples aren’t engaging in certain sexual activities before marriage (and instead waiting until after marriage).

However, I will always tailor activities and homework to make sure it represents your unique relationship.

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