What is individual therapy?
Individual therapy is a one-on-one counseling experience — just you and a licensed therapist — designed to help you explore, understand, and work through whatever you’re carrying. It’s a steady place to be honest, make sense of things, and start to feel more like yourself again.
People come to individual therapy for all kinds of reasons, including:
- Anxiety & overthinking
- Depression & low motivation
- Stress & burnout
- Trauma & past experiences
- Substance use & habits you want to change
- Relationship challenges
- Supportive Therapy
Types of individual therapy?
MANY APPROACHES, MATCHED TO YOU
There are many approaches to therapy, and the right one depends on you — what you’re working through and what helps you feel understood. Most therapists blend a few, rather than following a single script. Here are some of the most common.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at how your thoughts, feelings, and actions feed one another — and helps you shift the patterns that keep you stuck. It’s practical and structured, and especially helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
DBT builds concrete skills for managing intense emotions, staying grounded, and handling relationships — useful when feelings often arrive as too much, too fast.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic work explores how your past and long-held patterns shape the present. It’s a more reflective, insight-focused approach to understanding why you feel and react the way you do.
Humanistic & Experiential Therapy
These approaches focus on the here-and-now and your own capacity to grow, centering self-acceptance, meaning, and becoming more fully yourself.
Interpersonal Therapy
Interpersonal therapy focuses on your relationships and how they affect your mood and wellbeing — helpful when what’s hard is tangled up with the people and roles in your life.
Supportive Therapy
Supportive therapy offers steady, validating space to talk things through, build coping, and feel less alone — especially through a hard season or transition.
Benefits of individual therapy
Therapy isn’t only for moments of crisis. Research consistently shows it helps people feel better and move through daily life with more ease. A few of the ways it can help:
Real Relief
As anxiety, depression, and stress start to ease, daily life feels more manageable — and more like yours again.
Steadier Days
Build coping skills, focus, and resilience that make work, relationships, and responsibilities easier to carry.
More Balance
Find healthier boundaries between work and the rest of your life, and more room for the things that matter to you.
Stronger Relationships
Develop healthier communication, set boundaries, and build more honest, supportive connections.
Signs individual therapy might help
Early signs that shouldn’t be ignored
- You feel stuck, stalled, or not quite like yourself
- The same patterns keep repeating, no matter what you try
- Stress, worry, or low mood is wearing you down
- You're carrying something you've never said out loud
- You're coping in ways that aren't really serving you
- Everyday life feels heavier than it should
Frequently
Asked Questions
Who can benefit from individual therapy?
Individual therapy can help children, adolescents, and adults experiencing anxiety, depression, stress, trauma, relationship difficulties, or life transitions.
What actually happens in individual therapy?
You meet one-on-one with your therapist to talk through what’s going on. Early sessions are about getting to know you and what you’re hoping for; from there you work together at your own pace, building understanding and practical tools.
How is individual therapy different from couples or group therapy?
Individual therapy is focused entirely on you and your goals, in a private one-on-one setting. Couples and group therapy bring in others — a partner, or peers facing similar things. Many people do individual work alongside other formats.
How do you match me with a therapist?
Therapy is confidential, with limited legal exceptions related to safety, which your clinician will explain during your first session.
Do you see teens?
Yes. We work with clients aged 12 and older, with clinicians who specialize in supporting young people.