Individual Therapy
Going it alone isn’t working.
You’ve been trying for a long time, but life doesn’t seem to come together for you. How does everyone else manage this?
You try different ways – push harder, work harder. Or you stuff it down, don’t feel it, keep going.
You may cut it to the bone, stop showing up for friends, stop answering calls, and do what needs doing. Or you do nothing; let it all go − what difference does it make? Some days, you can’t, and CAN’T is happening more and more.
Maybe things used to be good, but they’ve changed, and you don’t know why. Perhaps you know why but don’t know how to adjust. You need some help to get your balance and decide what’s next.
What’s Your Deal?
Have you ever thought about what you do, what you feel? Have you ever thought about the why behind your hows and whats? Have you tried to narrow down the question and tried to find the right path, the one you need to travel?
I’m sure you have, and you may have come to some conclusions doing that very thing.
You’re a smart cookie, you’ve heard of Google, and you can figure things out.
Right? Or can you figure it out?
Friends don’t always provide the best advice.
Sometimes, you talk to friends, but you’re uncomfortable telling them the deep-down stuff because they may think you’re crazy? Whiny? Think less of you?
Maybe that worries you. You like being the one who solves more than the one who asks. There’s more control that way, and it makes you feel better to help someone. Other people’s problems give you the illusion of progress. You can’t be doing that bad if everyone is still coming to you.
And, some of your friends are the annoyingly positive type – long on platitudes but short on solutions.
Are you tired of hearing, “You just need to think more positively; it’ll work out.”?
Once in a while, your friends have excellent suggestions – but you’re stuck, you don’t know how to start.
Perhaps you need a different guide.
You are the center of your world. I know you know the inside of your head well. But I also know there are some corners you haven’t explored.
Maybe those are the scary parts; they’re the details you didn’t know were there − the unknown unknowns. These are the parts that cause repeating patterns you can’t see because you’re too close.
It’s hard to walk around the outside of your head and look it over like a car you’re thinking about buying, and anyway, you know you need to take that car to the mechanic for a check-up before you commit to a deal.
Seeking therapy provides the right guide, one who helps you identify those unknowns and fix the problem, so your life runs smoothly.
I’m that guide!
I’m part safari guide, part mechanic, and the guide who can help you go down the path that leads to the answers you want and the solutions you need.
My role is to point out the paths, but you decide if we’re going down them. It’s your safari, after all, and you are always in charge. There are many paths, and we don’t have to jump right into the crazy rocky ones right away.
Once we trim back the more overgrown ones, and you see what’s there, you can see how you got there, and you can see the path to get where you want to be. Sometimes it’s scary; sometimes it’s exhilarating.
I love it best when you tell me you traversed some of these paths by working on the strategies you get in therapy out in the real world. And, if you work it, you will tell me that at some point.
Let me help you find your path.
There’s a free consultation to see if we fit.
You should always work with someone you like and with whom you are comfortable.
Contact me at (908) 227-6550, and we’ll talk and see if we are going to travel together.