Individual Therapy

survivor

[\sər-ˈvī-vər\ noun] : a person who continues to function or prosper in spite of opposition, hardship, or setbacks.

How much of the following is YOU?
• You are the one taking care of other people and situations.
• You read people better than most and have a hard time trusting people.
• There’s always a fuzzy feeling the “other shoe is going to drop” at any time, and you always need to be prepared.
• You can stay in an uncomfortable, even shitty, situation long term. In spite of that, you’ll settle enough to not rock the boat.
• You cling to being hyper-independent while you’re overworked.
• It’s hard to know your wants, or conclude you’re just being too sensitive when you do know what you want.
• Deep down you wonder if you can get the kind of love you want.
• One way you deal with life is by having a “secret self” – where other parts of you can’t be seen or touched.
• Your fantasy world is rich and deep.

Clients come to me for individual therapy because they want to make links between what happened before and how it impacts them now. Often these folks are intelligent and hardworking, but are falling apart in how to take care of themselves and have healthy relationships. Their true wants and actual feelings may be hard to locate, especially to themselves. Scarcity or instability in the early years is common. Some clients ID their parents or caregivers as having narcissistic traits, not having enough resources to go around, substance abuse problems, or untreated mental illness.