Our counselors provide therapy in Philadelphia, PA

My go-to approach for helping people in individual therapy is cognitive behavioral therapy. I prefer and enjoy cognitive behavioral therapy because it challenges your mindset, helps you to rewire your mindset, and also incorporates mindfulness tools to help the client in their everyday life.

I teach a lot of deep breathing, box breathing, mindfulness, guided meditation techniques, and rain techniques. All sorts of mindfulness tools are taught in my sessions. I especially like to teach healthy communication and how to set boundaries in a healthy way.

I know a client is making meaningful progress in therapy when they have the ability to teach me back what I have taught them in the past. They also show that through interactions with friends or families, and tell those stories inside of sessions to highlight how they used the tools I taught them.

Clients can supplement their time in individual therapy by practicing mindfulness techniques, CBT techniques, or completing different assignments that I encourage outside of sessions, such as journaling or a worksheet I give in sessions to do outside of sessions.

I think they should take a look within themselves at what they feel, as well as what their strengths are and their weaknesses are going into therapy. I also encourage them to reflect on what it is that they are looking to gain out of therapy before coming into it. Most of the time, people come into therapy with a mindset of wanting to accomplish and work through a certain problem, but even after the problem is solved, we tend to see there may be more work that needs to be done, such as addressing certain toxic patterns, or maladaptive, coping skills, or maybe even doing work on self-esteem