Individual Therapy
In-Person and Telehealth
Therapy is the first step towards bettering yourself as an individual. Bright Future Counseling aims to create a safe, caring, and confidential environment for you to heal from your past, learn practical coping skills, find new ways of thinking and behaving, and feel better.
What is Individual Therapy?
Defined by the American Counseling Association (ACA), individual counseling - also known as individual therapy - is a “personal opportunity to receive support and experience growth during challenging times in life.”
By meeting one-on-one with a licensed mental health professional, you will talk through the challenges you’re facing and learn about your moods, feelings, thoughts, and behaviors.
How Does Therapy Work?
Therapy can help you take control of your life and respond to difficult situations with healthy coping skills. Overall, therapy can lead to an improvement in mood, satisfaction, confidence, and emotional management.
Together we can create a plan to meet your personal therapeutic goals. Let’s work together towards positive change. Bright Future Counseling offers in-person or online therapy in Vancouver, Washington.
Some areas we can focus on in individual counseling include
1. Anxiety-stress: Nervousness, Worry, Overthinking, Social Anxiety
2. Depression-grief: Feeling stuck, Low Energy, Generalized or Excessive Sadness, Mood Swings
3. Recovery for Sexual Abuse
4. Sexual Issues & Concerns
5. Relationship issues: Boundary setting, Codependency, Intimacy, Attachment, Trust, Jealousy, Past Hurt
6. Personality Assessments, such as Enneagram Coaching
7. Spiritual Issues, Religious Trauma or Abuse
* If you experience thoughts of suicide or self-harm, you should contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing/texting 988 or using their online chat. These resources are operated by trained crisis counselors and available nationwide 24/7 for anyone experiencing a mental or emotional crisis. In the event of a true emergency, you should call 911.
How to Get the Most Out of Individual Therapy
Therapy is most effective when you are an active participant. Once we establish your major hurdles and agree about how to overcome them, we can set goals and measure progress over time.
Success in therapy will involve sharing your thoughts, feelings, and experiences. Being open and honest is key to the most effective help possible. This allows the conversation to consider new insights, ideas, and ways of doing things.
It’s understandable to feel emotionally apprehensive or uncomfortable in exploring painful feelings and experiences. However, risks are minimized by working with a professional counselor who will adjust and adapt to you. If you’re reluctant to discuss certain concerns out of pain, embarrassment, or fear, please let me know so we can work through it together.
Sexuality or gender-affirming counseling for LGBTQIA individuals.
Counseling for religious and spiritual abuse.
Resources for Improving Well-Being
