At Utah Therapy, our caring team is here to provide a safe and welcoming environment for children, adolescents, and adults. This creates a safe place where people feel comfortable talking about their issues and concerns.
Individual therapy or psychotherapy is a type of counseling that involves working with a therapist alone to address your individual challenges. Sometimes individual therapy may be a necessary part of group therapy, where challenges are worked on separately to improve them on a larger scale.
People can seek out individual therapy for several reasons. This is why one of our aims at Utah Therapy is to reduce the stigma that surrounds therapy: you shouldn’t be judged for seeking professional support; especially when no one person seeks therapy for the same reason. Some reasons for therapy might include coping with grief, recovering from an illness, treatment for depression or Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), resolving past trauma, including sexual abuse, and substance addiction.
The sessions with our counselors can work on many challenges. A counselor can focus on past or current challenges, experiences, or relationships. To address these challenges, you might learn new skills or try out new behaviors that counteract past destructive or unhealthy ones. You will also work through past challenges so that you can let go of things from the past that no longer contribute to your overall wellbeing.
Psychotherapy is not limited to addressing challenges that have inhibited a person’s ability to function properly or happily. Ongoing psychotherapy is a common and well-proven way to continue to grow as a person and come to self-actualization. Individual therapy is a useful way to help clients overcome barriers that interfere with the positive qualities in a person’s life, such as happiness, self-esteem, and spiritual connection. By reaching these conclusions and working through these challenges, the happiness of one individual can contribute to the happiness of others around them.
Some reasons for seeking out therapy include:
- Alcohol abuse
- Anxiety
- Culture clashes
- Depression
- Drug abuse
- Eating disorders
- Identity crisis
- Infidelity
- Life coaching
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Parenting
- Sexual abuse
- Sexual addiction
- Sleep issues/Insomnia
- Suicidal thoughts