Wondering what to Expect?

Beginning therapy can be a stretching experience, especially if you have never worked with a counselor before. Getting to know someone you have never met before and then sharing issues that you may feel some shame around… who in their right mind wants to sign up for that?

But why do we do hard things? Because we want something different than what we have and are willing to go to great lengths to get it. This is why you are willing to brave the unknown of therapy- for the sake of working through the pain to get to the other side.

My hope for you is that quickly you will be put at ease and that over the first few sessions you will begin to feel comfortable opening up about what you would like to work on. Together we can get to the other side!

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Understanding the issues- This phase of therapy involves getting to know each other, gathering data about when the issues started and identifying what goals you have for therapy.

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Working on the issues- This phase is all about processing what has not worked and identifying experiments you would be willing to try to improve the situation. Between sessions is really where the transformation happens. You implement what we, together in session, have determined you would like to do differently.

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Graduation- The point of all therapy is for clients to come to a place where they feel good about the change they have made and are able to say, “I accomplished what I came for.” This phase is about firming up those new patterns of living that have been established and bringing therapy to a close. (Down the road you may desire to return to therapy to work on new things that have developed but for now you can take it from here!)