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Individual Counseling: Cognitive Therapy Plus!

Indivudual Counseling Cognitive therapy is a time-effective, cost-efficient approach to individual counseling widely used for many personal problems.

Consult any internet site for treatment of depression, anxiety, fear, trauma, prolonged sadness and stress management just to name a few and cognitive therapy is often listed as a treatment-of-choice.

Cognitive therapy can help you get back control of your life, manage difficult emotions and learn new ways of approaching old or persistent problems.

Cognitive therapy effectively helps you:

  • understand how you can become ‘your own worst enemy’.
  • know why you can’t always ‘make yourself’ or ‘will yourself’ better.
  • identify hidden core beliefs that can cause real problems in your life.
  • draw on strengths you already have to apply them to current situations.

Cognitive therapy believes that:

  • we are not victims of our past, that life can be different!
  • we can act our way into new ways of thinking and feeling.
  • how we interpret events determines how we act or feel.
  • medication can complement talk-therapy but isn’t the only answer.
  • feelings are important as indicators something is wrong.
  • paralysis occurs because we ask the same questions and recycle our thinking.

What are individual counseling sessions like?

  • Respectful, spirited, engaged conversations that provide direct feedback.
  • Common-sense, professionally sound principles presented you can use now.
  • A safe place for you to gain distance from your problems.
  • Humor, questions that get you thinking outside the box.
  • Encouragement and support that validates or reframes emotions.
  • Insight leading to action clustered around goals you have chosen.

“It is almost impossible to solve problems from within the same consciousness that created them.” - Albert Einstein

Ask yourself these three questions:

  • Is what’s happening to me getting better?
  • Am I recycling the same old solutions or ideas?
  • Is there an advantage in waiting to receive help?

For more information on individual counseling and how it can help you gain back control of your life and achieve greater happiness, please call or email me at absolutely no obligation to you.

Life can be different. Trauma, fear, anxiety and depression can release their hold. We can change how we relate to our problems and move forward more effectively and efficiently.