Cognitive, solution-focused therapy is a time-effective, cost-efficient approach
to individual counseling widely used for many personal problems. Consult any internet
site for treatment of depression, anxiety, fear, trauma, prolonged sadness and stress
management just to name a few and cognitive therapy is often listed as a treatment-of-choice.
Cognitive, solution-focused therapy can help you get back control of your life,
manage difficult emotions and learn new ways of approaching old or persistent problems.

Cognitive, solution-focused therapy effectively helps you:

• understand how you can become ‘your own worst enemy’.
• know why you can’t always ‘make yourself’ or ‘will yourself’ better.
• identify hidden core beliefs that can cause real problems in your life.
• draw on strengths you already have to apply them to current situations.

Cognitive, solution-focused therapy believes that:

• how we interpret events determines how we act or feel.
• feelings are important as indicators something is wrong.
• we are not victims of our past, that life can be different!
• paralysis occurs because we ask the same questions and recycle our thinking.
• with understanding, we can act our way into new ways of thinking and feeling.
• medication can complement talk-therapy but isn’t the only answer.

What are individual counseling sessions like?

• respectful, collaborative, engaged conversations that provide direct feedback.
• common-sense, professionally sound principles that you can use now.
• a safe place for you to gain distance from your problems.
• questions and perspective that get you thinking outside the box.
• encouragement and support that validates or reframes emotions.
• insight leading to action toward the dreams you have defined and goals you have
  chosen.