Individual Therapy

Cornerstone Behavioral Health Services offers consumers the opportunity to engage in individual therapy services with doctoral level psychologists. Individual Therapy is a form of psychological treatment provided by one therapist to one consumer, in contrast with group therapies in which eight or ten individuals meet with one or two therapists at a time to receive treatment. In Individual Therapy, the therapist and consumer focus on whatever difficulties led the consumer to pursue treatment. These difficulties might include, but are certainly not limited to, depression, anxiety, sexual malfunction, eating disorders, marital difficulites, difficulty coping with life stress, trouble controlling anger, or general dissatisfaction in one or more aspects of life. Ultimately, any situation that causes an individual distress and/or interferes with the ability to perform optimally in one's life (e.g., family relationships, work, school, etc) can be treated in individual therapy.

Through discussion of one's specific difficulties with a therapist, an individual is able to develop a better understanding of the factors influencing his or her difficulties, and consequently, to discover the freedom necessary to make choices that will dispose of difficulties. Often, by investing time in addressing specific problems in individual therapy and by investing time to learn ways to understand oneself outside of the therapy, improvements extend to other aspects of life and can be far-reaching by touching parts of one's life that were not specifically addressed in therapy. It is critical that an individual choose a therapist who has the training and experience necessary to treat one's specific problem. The staff members at Cornerstone were assembled based on their diversity of interests to address a variety of problems in everyday living, and a phone call to Cornerstone could connect you with someone specifically trained in helping you to work through whatever personal difficulties you might be facing.