What Is Individual Therapy?
Individual therapy is a type of therapy in which a client works one-on-one with a clinician. In individual therapy, your clinician will help you identify and process unhealthy thoughts, behaviors, patterns, and relationships in your life. Your clinician will also support you in developing and setting goals for yourself and your treatment plan. Through this process, you can achieve goals that will support your long-term recovery in body, mind, and soul.
Individual therapy can help clients with:
- Substance use disorder (SUD)
- Mental health disorders
- Trauma
To learn more about the issues we treat, visit our Substance Abuse Treatment page.
Types of Individual Therapy
There are several types of individual therapy that can support you on your recovery journey. You will work collaboratively with your clinician to challenge old patterns and negative experiences using therapeutic modalities that make the most sense for you.
Types of individual therapy:
- Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)
- Treating faulty thinking and learning healthier patterns
- SUD
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Eating disorders
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Treating faulty thinking and learning healthier patterns
- Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)
- Regulating and managing intensely felt emotions
- SUD
- Borderline personality disorder (BPD)
- PTSD
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Eating disorders
- Suicidal ideation
- Regulating and managing intensely felt emotions
- Trauma-focused therapy
- Recognizing the relationship between trauma and emotional and behavioral responses
- Motivational interviewing (MI)
- Helping clients become active participants in exploring their wants and needs
- SUD
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Helping clients become active participants in exploring their wants and needs
- Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT)
- Helping clients explore how relationships impact mental health
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Eating disorder
- PTSD
- Bipolar disorder (BP)
- SUD
- Helping clients explore how relationships impact mental health
- Relapse prevention training
- Identifying triggers to lessen the chance of relapse
- SUD
- Identifying triggers to lessen the chance of relapse
- Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (EMDR)
- Using specific eye movements while processing traumatic memories
- PTSD
- Anxiety
- Depression
- OCD
- Eating disorders
- Personality disorders
- Dissociative disorders
- Using specific eye movements while processing traumatic memories
How Can Individual Therapy Help Me?
Recovery is never a straight path. As the journey is different for each person, individual therapy can support your growth on your path forward. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), behavioral therapies like individual therapy can help clients process and work through SUD and co-occurring mental health disorders. In therapy, a clinician can help you recognize the unhealthy thinking and behavior patterns that have contributed to your SUD.
Moreover, working in collaboration, your therapist can teach and guide you through methods such as coping strategies and life skill building to help motivate you to seek change in the way you think and behave.
As noted by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), over 75% of people who seek therapy experience symptom relief. Moreover, individuals in therapy can effectively process their feelings and express healthier thinking patterns. There have been numerous successful outcomes in therapy because the foundation of support is based on trust and accountability between you and your clinician.
Therefore, long-term recovery is not a journey you take alone but a collaborative process you embark on with a support team at your side. Your supporters, like your clinician, are there to guide you when you stumble, catch you when you fall, and cheer you on as you make progress toward a healthier you. With a clinician, you can rediscover yourself, grow as a woman, and build a life you are obsessed with living.
Differences Between Individual and Group Therapy
A common feature in recovery is individual and group therapy to support you on your journey to a healthier you. The major difference between individual and group therapy is the number of people involved in the sessions. In individual therapy, you work one on one with your clinician to build a treatment plan designed specifically for you and your needs. With one on one therapy sessions, you can learn how to build skills to help you navigate life in sobriety. In addition, individual therapy can support you in processing any co-occurring mental health disorder you may be experiencing.
On the other hand, group therapy involves more than one client participating in a session with one or more clinicians guiding the group. In group therapy, you can find a supportive environment with a group of people who have shared experiences around SUD. Together, you and other members of the group can form healthy attachments to each other as you support each other with insight, guidance, accountability, and comfort. With group therapy, you can share your struggles and successes, as well as give and receive support from people working toward recovery too. As with individual therapy, group therapy can support you in working through other co-occurring mental health disorders.
Individual Therapy at Emerge Recovery TX
At Emerge Recovery TX, we are committed to providing individual therapy that meets you where you are and follows you on every step of your recovery journey. The backbone of our therapy is psychological flexibility. We incorporate trauma-focused care along with therapeutic modalities that shift and move based on you and your needs. In addition, we have built our programs with a full continuum of care in mind to support you throughout the entirety of your time with Emerge Recovery TX.
We believe in the individualist and full aftercare method of support as women are too often shuffled from clinician to clinician on their recovery journey. The shuffling between clinicians at different stages of recovery has set women back, as they are forced to start and stop over and over again on their journey with a new person every time. If you are constantly paired with new clinicians and support people, how can you build trust and an alliance where you are both working toward the same goals? How can someone hold you accountable and help you discover a healthier version of yourself if there is no time to build that connection?
Emerge Recovery TX Clinicians
- Have private practices
- Masters level clinicians
- Are trained in EMDR
To learn more about individual therapy at Emerge Recovery TX, visit our Programs page.
Individual therapy can help you build healthier thinking patterns to support long-term recovery. At Emerge Recovery TX, you can start building a life you are excited about with the support of a clinician. Call (737) 237-9663 today.