INDIVIDUAL THERAPY

INDIVIDUAL THERAPY

What Is Individual Therapy?
Individual therapy, sometimes called talk therapy, is a one-on-one process between you and a therapist where you can explore your thoughts, feelings, and challenges in a safe, confidential space. It is a supportive environment designed to help you better understand yourself, work through difficulties, and create meaningful change in your life.

How It Works
In individual therapy, your sessions are tailored to your unique needs and goals. Depending on what you’re working through, therapy may involve processing past experiences, developing coping strategies for stress and anxiety, improving relationships, or building self-confidence. At PBA, we utilize different well-established and depth focused therapeutic approaches to best support your growth.

Benefits of Individual Therapy

  • Relief from anxiety, depression, or stress

  • Increased self-awareness and emotional resilience

  • Healing from trauma, grief, or loss

  • Improved self-esteem and confidence

  • Healthier relationships and communication patterns

  • A stronger sense of balance, purpose, and well-being

Who Can Benefit?
Individual therapy is for anyone who wants support, whether you’re experiencing a specific challenge or simply want to better understand yourself. Many people seek therapy during times of transition, emotional pain, or when feeling “stuck.” Others choose it as an ongoing space for personal growth, reflection, and healing.

For more information about specific areas of focus at PBA, check out the list on this page and click to learn more.

  • ADHD is often characterized by challenges with focus, concentration, organizational skills, poor planning, habitual procrastination or failing to follow through with goals. PBA offers ADHD therapy for children and adults not only focused on improving executive functioning, reducing distractibility and increasing productivity, but on improving emotional regulation and self-image, and diminishing underlying relational struggles.

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  • At PBA, we focus on identifying and resolving the unconscious conflicts and past experiences that contribute to anxiety symptoms. As such, we aim to help individuals gain insight into the roots of their anxiety, rather than simply managing symptoms, and we encourage exploration of emotions and behaviors to promote lasting change.

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  • PBA offers a strengths-based, neurodiversity-affirming approach to those with an official or unofficial ASD diagnosis (or other neurodivergencies) that focuses on enhancing social skills, strengthening communication, improving interpersonal functioning, emotional regulation and executive functioning, while addressing sensory sensitivities and anxiety.

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  • At PBA, we value and celebrate culturally responsive therapy that recognizes the role of intergenerational trauma, colonization, systemic oppression, racial and cultural heritage in contributing to your unique story and identity.

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  • PBA offers specialized therapy to manage a variety of issues in children, including anxiety, depression, trauma (including sexual trauma), grief, behavioral problems (including sexual acting out), learning disabilities, and social or emotional difficulties.  It provides a safe and supportive space for children to express their feelings, learn coping mechanisms, and develop healthy behaviors. Therapists use various techniques, including play therapy, creative expression, and verbal communication, tailored to the child's age and developmental stage. 

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  • At PBA, we move beyond the surface symptoms to explore unconscious patterns and relational wounds underlying mood regulation challenges.

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  • There are many ways in which eating may become disordered, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, or avoidant or restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID). We at PBA understand the emotional and relational roots of disordered eating and can assist you in working towards self-compassion, appropriate regulation and integration.

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  • At PBA, we are committed to a LGBTQIA+ affirmative practice, honoring your identity while exploring how early relationships and culture have shaped your inner world. We provide a safe space for exploring gender identity, sexual orientation and all queer identities.

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  • Our skilled PBA clinicians understand the psychological dynamics of narcissistic abuse and help you explore and reclaim your sense of self in a safe therapeutic relationship.

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  • At PBA, we explore the deeper emotional meanings underneath obsessions and compulsions while incorporating specific evidence-based tools as needed.

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  • We understand that painful experiences in religious or spiritual settings can leave lasting wounds. Our therapists provide a safe, compassionate space to process feelings of fear, guilt, shame, or betrayal that may stem from these experiences. Together, we work on healing from the impact of religious abuse and rebuilding a sense of trust, identity, and personal empowerment, whether that includes spirituality or not.

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  • At PBA, we are deeply experienced in working with survivors of sexual assault or sexual abuse, occurring in or out of the family. Our work with children, teens and adults is aimed at addressing the sequelae of sexual abuse and on improving emotional functioning and promoting long-term healing.

  • PBA offers a supportive space for teens to explore identity, emotions, and parental and romantic relationships while navigating the pressures of growing up. We are also skilled at addressing depression, anxiety, trauma (including sexual trauma), substance use, acting out behaviors (including sexual acting out) and other concerns of adolescence. Our therapists are relatable and understand contemporary culture as well as the social challenges of our time and their impacts on teens.

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  • At PBA, our skilled clinicians utilize contemporary trauma-informed psychotherapies to help unpack the impact of complex trauma and PTSD stored in the mind and body, and foster healing through deep relational work. This includes work relating to sexual trauma experienced by children, teens or adults.

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