What to Expect During Your Last Individual Session?

Marriage counseling Raleigh NC is ideal for couples who feel detached and distanced from one another or unable to communicate effectively with one another. As a licensed relationship therapist, I also specialize in working with individual clients, adult men, and women, who want to:

·       Improve their health.

·       Improve the way they feel

·       Work on their anxiety

·       Process life transitions like going through a divorce

·       Work on attracting the right person in their next relationship

I perform all of my work via tele-health, so I meet with my clients online, utilizing very secure HIPAA-compliant software.

If you are considering marriage counseling Raleigh NC for one, it is important to understand what to expect at each stage of the process.

Hopefully, the information below will help you understand what is going on in sessions if you have never been in treatment before or have minimal experience with therapy. Everything in psychotherapy is kept private. While no therapist can tell you everything about their sessions, I can discuss the method or how I work with individuals and couples in marriage counseling Raleigh and how the transformation happens.

Knowing what to expect in psychotherapy gives you an idea of whether you want to participate in individual treatment or whether you are not yet ready for it.

Psychotherapy requires a significant investment of time, energy, money, and dedication. Moreover, it takes time to break old, unproductive patterns and install new ones in our minds and behavior. So, depending on your trauma history and where you are in life, you should anticipate engaging with a therapist for some time, at least a year, to achieve long-term transformation.

What Happens During Your Final Individual Therapy Session?

So, what can you expect from your final individual therapy session? Well, you are now a different person as a result of your counseling. A lot of times, clients feel that they are just so different. They feel like they know themselves better, understand their patterns and habits, and how they are impacting their everyday life, decisions, or relationships.

By the end of your counseling process, you will feel more aligned with your authentic self, more empowered to establish boundaries, ask for what you need, and advocate for yourself and your children.

If you fall off the path, you have tools to help you get back on it. The wisdom teachers say that enlightenment is not about staying on track. It is about falling off the path and knowing how to come back and recenter yourself.

You will become very aware of your inner critic and how it prevents you from achieving happiness and having the life you've always dreamed about.

We all have an inner critic who tells us things like, "You are such a failure," "You shouldn't be doing this," or "you don't deserve (to succeed, to be loved, etc.)," establishing self-limiting beliefs that hold us back and cause emotional discomfort.

Self-limiting beliefs are negative thoughts or assumptions about yourself that can harm your health and well-being.

These self-limiting scripts usually start to form in early childhood after a person has had many bad experiences. This makes them believe they can't do certain things to protect themselves from getting hurt.

By the end of your counseling, you will become aware of that negative voice, understanding that this is not you. Instead, it is an inherited, cultural, or voice from a family member that keeps you down.

For example, if you grew up in a family with insecure attachment patterns, you may have learned that if you don't meet the wants of others, you aren't good enough or don't deserve to be loved and valued.

In counseling, you will learn how to activate your adult self and treat yourself with self-compassion, understanding that it is okay to make mistakes and that mistakes don't mean failure. If you make a bad choice, that is okay. It doesn't mean you are a bad person. In therapy, you will learn how to move on and raise your vibrational frequency to live in an abundant, loving, and kind place.

Summary

You will feel more confident, empowered, aligned, and loved at the end of counseling. You will not turn to the outside to fill you up since you know how you are on the inside and are not disturbed by other people's opinions or confirmation.

You will feel more confident, empowered, aligned, and loved at the end of counseling. You will not turn to the outside to fill you up since you know how you are on the inside and are not disturbed by other people's opinions or confirmation.

So, during your last individual session, we will discuss your progress, review all the work you have done, and make a plan for moving forward.

I hope this was helpful. If you have any questions or would like to schedule an appointment in my Wake Forest or virtual office, do not hesitate to book your free 15 min phone consultation online by clicking here.