Individual Therapy
At Mountain Soul Therapy (MST), individual therapy offers a judgement-free space to address your unique goals. If you don’t know what your goals are - that’s okay too! We will identify those together.
Therapy will be shaped by your unique goals, needs, comfort level, and strengths. Common components of individual therapy at MST include:
Nervous System Regulation/Improving Distress Tolerance
Breathwork
Grounding exercises
Mindfulness practice
Reframe negative thoughts, beliefs
Relationship Skills Building
Identify emotions
Identify underlying assumptions, beliefs
Know what’s yours to own and what isn’t
Develop communication skills
Reduce fear and shame in relationships
Tuning into Self
Identify needs, desires, and fears
Understand what holds you back from acting on what you know is best
Tap into your strength to move forward
Reparenting
Learn to take care of your inner child
Meet needs that went unmet in your past
Break harmful generational cycles
Reprocessing Stressful and Traumatic Experiences
Reduce the emotional charge of painful experiences
Strengthen positive beliefs when reminded of those experiences
Experience post-traumatic growth
Common Reasons to Engage in Individual Therapy
Overwhelming Emotions: When feelings of grief, sadness, guilt, shame, or low self-worth become overwhelming, it can be challenging to process on your own. Individual therapy can help you process emotions and develop tools to improve emotional regulation.
Stress & Burnout: Parenting, work, relationships, and the demands of everyday life can leave you feeling depleted, overwhelmed, and disconnected from yourself. Individual therapy can help you understand what is contributing to your exhaustion, identify patterns that keep you overextended, and reconnect with what you need. Together, we’ll work toward healthier boundaries, greater balance, and sustainable ways of caring for yourself so you can move through life with more energy and intention.
Anxiety & Overthinking: When your mind won’t slow down, it can be difficult to feel present, make decisions, or trust yourself. You may find yourself constantly analyzing, anticipating what could go wrong, or replaying conversations and decisions. Individual therapy can help you understand what’s driving these patterns, build a greater sense of safety and self-trust, and develop new ways of responding to anxious thoughts. Together, we’ll work toward feeling less controlled by worry and more able to stay grounded, make decisions with confidence, and engage fully in your life.
Trauma:Whether recent or in the distant past, individual therapy offers you the opportunity to process traumatic events, reduce symptoms of stress and engage in healing.
Childhood Issues: Unresolved painful experiences from your past can resurface in various ways throughout your life. Individual therapy can help you address these issues and develop behaviors that are more aligned with the wise adult you are today.
Life Transitions: Significant life changes—like becoming a parent—can bring uncertainty, distress, and a sense of disconnection from yourself. Individual therapy provides space to slow down, process what you’re experiencing, and navigate the changes in your life and sense of self.
Relationship Issues: Sometimes couples counseling isn’t possible, or you may want space to better understand what’s happening before involving your partner. Individual therapy can help you explore the patterns that shape your relationships, understand your emotional responses, and identify what you need to feel more secure and connected. Together, we can work on communicating more effectively, navigating conflict, setting boundaries, and making meaningful changes in how you show up in your relationships.
