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Individual Counseling

Reasons to seek counseling:

Mental Health Issues: Depression  Anxiety  Stress  Grief  Addiction  Anger/Violence  Low Self Esteem 

Interpersonal Issues: Parenting/Family Couples Divorce Affairs  Abandonment  Shyness  Insecure Attachments

Work Issues:  Employee/Employer conflicts  Disability Malingering  Work Performance/ Motivation  Compensation 

How to Get the Most out of Counseling:

Successful therapy requires two interlocking parts: 1) a compatible (to you) therapist and 2) accurately assigned interventions.   

First, find a therapist who understands your circumstances on an emotional level.  Achieving therapeutic goals will occur more often when we feel confident in the counselor's concern for us.  Sometimes people just don't fit well together.  If you don't care for the therapist's personality, sense of humor, temperament or overall style then find someone you're comfortable with.   

Second, you also want the therapist's training, clinical experience and knowledge - the nuts and bolts of their counseling strategies - to fit with your situation and needs.  

If you're seeking help for social shyness one therapist might take a solution-focused approach and encourage you to find places in your life where you're not shy, underscore those solutions you've found and direct you to employ them in the areas you're not currently using them.  The solutions then are yours and you know your own methods.  

Another therapist would suggest you explore past emotional history to find what unconscious conclusions are regulating their present state of mind - a psychodynamic approach.  Neither approach is right or wrong.  What's most important is which approach works for you.

Theoretically, much of the individual counseling provided at The Connection Clinic merges Attachment Theory (the science of how people make and break bonds) with Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy.  This approach, originated, developed, at The Connection Clinic, matches the emotionally-charged conclusions, expectations and biases of our bonding experiences with proven remedies from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.  

Consider adopting these states of mind as preparation for getting the most from your counseling experience:

Precursors to Change

Your therapy is most likely to result in favorable changes for you with the following mindset:

Attachment Changer's Attitude

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