A component of individual therapy focuses on increasing your well-being by getting to know and befriending aspects of your internal experience. Those might be overwhelming emotions, a nervous system that is unable to be calm, racing thoughts, self-criticism, and many other difficult automatic reactions. By seeking to understand the parts of you that learned to respond to the world in those ways, it becomes possible to shift to a more balanced and adaptive approach, and to feel more like yourself. 

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An additional aspect of individual therapy is increasing the quality of your relationships by exploring relational and communication tools. You might feel stuck in patterns of conflict, have difficulty asking for what you need, struggle to feel connected to others, and the multiple other ways that navigating interactions is challenging. By learning about and practicing relational therapy concepts, strategies, and skills, you are able to feel closer to the important people in your life. 

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Healing often involves getting clear about messages you have internalized due to dominant cultural narratives or experiences of oppression. You may have been told you are responsible for other people’s emotions, you need to make yourself small to make other people comfortable, you are ‘too much’, and myriad other ways people are required to mask in order to fit into social norms. By clarifying what societal beliefs and scripts you were exposed to it becomes easier to access self-acceptance and authenticity. 

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