Individual Therapy - Finding a path to living your authentic life.
Do you sometimes feel a sense of disconnection from your own life? The feeling may be pervasive, or it may be just a gentle tug at the back of your mind. You want to feel happier and more connected to the people in your life, but somehow the opportunities for connection just seem to slip through your fingers. No matter how hard you try to change things, you always seem to end up right back where you started.
As a result, instead of feeling joyful, you feel frustrated and alone.
It is especially frustrating when, from the outside, everything looks like you “should be happy.” You may have a good job, people in your life, and a loving relationship. But no matter how “successful” you are, you still carry a nagging feeling of:
Loneliness
Anxiety
Depression
Doubt
Shame or guilt
The Impact of Trauma
Many people have experienced trauma during their lives. This is more common than you may think. Sometimes trauma comes when you’re a child, and sometimes later in life. And often, your memories of the experience are so uncomfortable that you deny the trauma. You say to yourself, “It wasn’t that bad,” “Other people had it worse,” “I should just be grateful and get off the pity pot.”
But for many people, no matter how they try, the echoes of their past trauma continue to show up in their lives today.
Difficulty trusting
Fear of intimacy
Anxiety and/or a heightened state of vigilance
Difficulty setting boundaries or limits with others, or setting overly rigid limits
Holding others too close - or pushing them away
The sense of being disconnected from your feelings
When these feelings show up, the first impulse is to push them down hard. But no matter how hard you try, the feelings don’t go away, and they just keep popping up. Individual Counseling is a good way to work through the broken memories of your past and find a path to freedom.
The Power of Individual Counseling
Individual Therapy is a commitment to yourself. It’s a promise to take the time and effort to focus on how you really feel and find out what’s important to you. It’s about discovering a path to the life you want to live.
Contact me for a free 30-minute Zoom consultation. I offer online couples therapy and individual therapy to clients in Marin County, San Francisco, and throughout California.
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Your first session with me will usually be a free 30-minute consultation.
This is an open discussion in which you can ask any questions and in which you can get a sense of what it would like to work with me.
At the same time, I get a chance to get to know you better, understand what's brought you to therapy, and get a sense of your goals for therapy.
And then, together, we work out whether I'm a good fit for you. If I'm not, then I'll usually be able to refer you to another therapist that I know and trust.
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The therapy session is 50 minutes long. I usually meet with clients once a week.
For some clients, therapy is focused on working on one specific issue and the therapy may be very short term.
For other clients we're working on a wide range of issues, and we may work together for a year or more.
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My fee for individual therapy is $240 for a 50-minute session.
I do not take insurance, but I can provide you with an invoice to submit to your insurance provider. Depending on your plan, my fee may be eligible for your out-of-network benefits.
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I am based in Sausalito, California.Most of my clients are in Marin County and San Francisco. But I provide online therapy for individuals and adults across California.
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"Who looks outside Dreams; Who looks inside, Awakes."
Carl Jung