Individual Therapy
What can therapy help with?
Mental health struggles, such as anxiety, depression, and PTSD, can impact all areas of a person’s life. A person may feel unmotivated in school, burnt out at work, have conflicts with their loved ones, or have difficulty getting along with friends. They may feel irritable, worried, sleepless, alienated, angry, and stuck due to their emotions. Life happens, and individual therapy services can help!
Frequently Asked Questions
What can individual therapy help with?
Individual therapy can help with mental health struggles such as anxiety, depression, and PTSD, which can affect motivation at school or work, relationships with loved ones, sleep, and overall mood.
What therapeutic approach do you use?
I incorporate client-centered and evidence-based therapeutic interventions, focusing on building safety and therapeutic rapport alongside practical, applicable interventions.
How long does individual therapy take?
The length of therapy varies by person, depending on your goals, history, and the challenges you're working through. Some clients find relief in a few months, while others use therapy as an ongoing resource over time.
Do you offer online (telehealth) individual therapy?
Yes, I offer both in-person sessions (San Jose and Fremont, CA) and telehealth for individual therapy.
What happens in a typical first session?
I'll ask about your presenting concerns, history, and background, along with your relationships, strengths, and goals, to understand your current needs and what you're hoping to get out of therapy.
What is the cost of individual therapy, and do you take insurance?
My rate for a 1-hour session is $185. I am currently paneled with Lyra, Aetna, Optum, and Cigna. If you have different insurance, I can provide a superbill for possible out-of-network reimbursement.
What is your cancellation policy?
Appointments canceled less than 24 hours before the scheduled time are billed at the full session fee.
The Benefits of Individual Therapy
Individual therapy sessions can be helpful stepping stones in working through difficult emotions, traumas, and life circumstances. At Moonlight Marriage and Family Therapy, I incorporate client-centered and evidence-based therapeutic interventions to support you. The combination of safety, therapeutic rapport, and applicable therapy interventions can change lives. At Moonlight Marriage and Family Therapy, I care about your story and am here to listen, unravel and process with you. I can support you in empowering yourself through building your skills toolbox, which you can continue to use outside of the therapy sessions, and for years to come.
I am here to listen and also help with the following:
- Trauma processing
- Learning anxiety management skills
- Building the coping skills toolbox
- Learning effective communication strategies/reducing conflict
- Practicing healthy relational boundaries
- Processing emotions through Internal Family Systems (parts work)
- Practicing positive self-talk
- Identifying strengths and solutions to overcome problems
- Talk through our difficult emotions
- Getting out of love addiction/love avoidance relationship cycles
- Have an improved body image and confidence
- Connecting to supportive resources/communities
- Learning body-based and sensory tools to release emotions
- Learning mindfulness
- Rewriting your own story
- Identify and alter negative automatic thinking patterns
- Learning to manage reactions and maladaptive behaviors
- Process immigration trauma
- And a lot more…