Individual Psychotherapy

Individual psychotherapy is the process of using scientifically validated techniques and procedures, such as cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) and other therapy techniques, to explore personal difficulties, concerns or feelings that could prevent you from living a full, meaningful, happy, healthy and productive life. Psychotherapy is a one on one collaborative process between you and your therapist. By working together, you will identify and change the thought and behavior patterns that are keeping you from feeling your best and reaching your full potential. Individual psychotherapy is grounded in dialogue and will provide you with a supportive, nonjudgmental, neutral and objective environment where you can share openly and overcome destructive or problematic thoughts or behaviour patterns. Psychotherapy will not only help you solve the issue at hand, but will also teach you new skills to better cope with whatever challenges arise in the future.

Some of the popular topics for individual psychotherapy are listed below:

• Self-awareness
• Decision making
• Life transitions
• Bereavement, grief, multiple losses
• Confidence and self-esteem

Work Challenges

• Career transition
• Employment stress, harassment, invalidation, burnout

Faith Issues

• Faith integration, particularly with respect to God-image, redemption and restoration
• Church or Christian community injury and restoration

Mental Health

• Anxiety, phobias, obsessions, compulsions, social anxieties
• Depression and other mood disorders
• Mental health issues, self or family member
• Anger management
• Addictions: substance abuse, gambling, co-dependency issues, sexual addictions

Relationships

• Boundaries in relationships
• Relationship concerns, including issues related to domestic violence, mental illness, or infidelity
• Post-separation/divorce

Trauma

• Childhood trauma, including sexual abuse, neglect and other violence
• Family-of-origin work (including genogram and attachment issues)
• Adult trauma, including assault, harassment, invalidation

Transition

• Country-of-origin work (war trauma)
• Cross-cultural and cultural adaptation issues
• Grief
• Divorce
• Empty nest
• Marriage
• Death
• Retirement
• Miscarriage
• Blended family
• Relocation