Individual Therapy

People seek individual therapy when they’re stuck. When they want to make changes, or feel better, but find themselves unable to do so by themselves.

Often, all other avenues have been exhausted- self-help books, distractions, friends, family, YouTube videos on mental health.

Self-help books and YouTube videos may have some helpful tips and information.

Distractions may allow you to get away from how you’re really feeling for awhile.

And friends and family can be important supports.

But these are not always enough.

Whether there are clear reasons for your current difficulties, or whether the way you feel is a complete mystery to you, the process of therapy can help you make lasting changes within yourself and in your life.

The benefits of individual therapy include:

*Understand yourself more deeply, allowing for a deeper and more secure sense of self.

*Improve relationships with others by discovering and exploring your habitual ways of relating. This involves working through internal and external obstacles you consistently experience, and working out ways of changing these dynamics.

*Develop more harmony between conflicting parts of yourself.  This conflict can often be the root of the distressing symptoms you are experiencing.

*Experience your life as more meaningful and fulfilling.

Research showing the efficacy of therapy:

There are many clinical studies showing the efficacy of individual therapy. For those interested, the below link from the APA page “Recognition of Psychotherapy Effectiveness” is a helpful summary, though in no way exhaustive:

https://www.apa.org/about/policy/resolution-psychotherapy#

Deep Growth Counseling provides individual therapy in the Northlake, TX | Argyle, TX | Denton, TX area.