Individual Therapy
When You Can’t Say in One Sentence What’s Wrong
Somebody asks how you’re doing, and an honest answer would take twenty minutes and a diagram.
The sleeping. The temper that shows up faster than it used to. One comment at the wrong moment taking the whole evening down with it.
Taken one at a time, each of them has a reasonable explanation.
Lined up next to each other, they start to look like one thing, and you don’t have a name for it.
Your Body Got There Before You Had a Name for It
Your First Hour Ends With a Question for You
Where that got installed is what the first session is for.
I ask about childhood, because reading a room and keeping it calm is a skill, and you learned it somewhere, from someone.
Familiar and safe got wired together in you early, and telling them apart as an adult is most of the work.
At the end of that hour I’ll ask whether I’m the right therapist for you, and I want an actual answer.
Read the Book or Don’t. Come Back Either Way.
Most of what changes happens between sessions, so you won’t leave empty-handed.
Sometimes that’s a book, sometimes a worksheet, sometimes box breathing, an instruction your body can follow when nothing you tell yourself is landing: in for four, hold for four, out for four, hold for four.
What we practice draws on DBT and ACT, which in plain terms is learning what to do with a feeling you can’t reason your way out of.
If you didn’t get to any of it, we pick up where we left off, and I don’t make it a thing.
When You Can Finally Name It in One Sentence
One man came back from a book I’d handed him with, “Oh my gosh, I wish I had read this twenty years ago.”
You’ll read something on a Tuesday night and recognize your own kitchen in it.
The list you couldn’t explain gets one account instead of six.
And the worst thing in your history goes back to being something that happened, instead of a verdict on who you are.
Start by Telling Me the Short Version
You don’t need the twenty minutes and the diagram to get started.
Sessions are online, and if you’re a Texas resident, my office goes where you go.
Email me at traci@bessiescreekcounseling.com, text me at (346) 307-6264, or send a note through my Psychology Today profile.
Tell me what’s been happening, in whatever order it comes out.
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If you recognized yourself anywhere on this page, that recognition counts for more than it feels like it does. It's what comes before anything else moves.
Email me at traci@bessiescreekcounseling.com, or send a message through my Psychology Today profile, and tell me a little about what brought you here. I'd be glad to do this part with you.
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