Individual Therapy

Everyone experiences loss.  Grief is often painful, but for some people, the emotions can become overwhelming. When a person’s grief is severe and unrelenting, getting additional support can be essential. In time, a person can recover from their loss and adjust to a new life. Each experience of grief is unique, complex, and personal. Your culture, personality, and experience can all affect the grieving process. If you are going through losing someone close, losing an important opportunity, losing a pet, facing loss of your own health, grief counseling is an option. 

Our therapists are trained in and have experience helping with complex grief, traumatic grief, and the losses we all face as we go through the normal course of our lives. Our nervous systems are built to lean into each other in times of great loss.  In this way, we share the resiliency of each other’s nervous systems so that we do not have to face such grief alone.  If you’ve lost a loved one, we’d like to help. If you’re going through a crisis in your own health, in your career, or relational journeys, we’d like to help.

Depression is one of the most common mental health issues treated in therapy. A person with depression likely has trouble dealing with daily stresses. Sometimes the simplest activities—getting out of bed, bathing, and dressing—can feel impossible. Such struggles might make people feel helpless or alone. Even when something good happens, depression can cast a cloud of negativity over the experience. Often people feel depressed because of internal conflicts in their own systems.  Other times, they feel depressed because of hard things that have happened in the past that they have not been able to safely speak with someone about.  We want to help you get to the roots of what you are experiencing, as well as help you lift your symptoms as soon as possible. 

Depression hurts physically and mentally. It doesn't have to stay like this. Depression can be treated. It is a mental health concern, not a personality flaw, and recovery is possible.

CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) is a psycho-social intervention that aims to improve mental health and well being. CBT focuses on challenging and changing unhelpful cognitive distortions (e.g. thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes) and behaviors, and the development of personal coping strategies that target solving current problems. Originally, it was designed to treat depression, but its use has been expanded to include treatment of a number of mental health conditions, including anxiety.

Although a person’s sexual or romantic orientation or gender identity may not be a source of distress, people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, asexual, or any other orientation or gender identity may find that the social stigma of living as a minority is a source of stress or anxiety. LGBTQ+ people experience mental health disorders like major depression or generalized anxiety disorder three times as often as the rest of the population, issues that are magnified if a person experiences other marginalized identities. 

Additionally, some individuals feel being queer can sometimes feel like an obstacle toward finding healthcare in and of itself and can be challenging to find providers who are not just affirming, but simply LGBTQ+-literate at all. When seeking therapy, whether for issues associated with one’s sexual, romantic, or gender identity or for concerns related to mental health, finding a qualified mental health professional who has experience and familiarity with the challenges members of the LGBTQ+ community often face, can be critical to successful therapy. Our therapists are all trained and are LGBTQ+-affirming. Our commitment to continue to seek education and understanding on a regular basis in our work with this often traumatized and marginalized group of individuals is paramount to our work here at The Grove. We have therapists that specialize in working with LGBTQ+ individuals and are ready to help.

Currently there is no “cure” for autism, but treatment can be helpful. Treatment and therapy may focus on managing behavior issues along with including the whole family into the treatment. 

Treatment may work better the earlier autism is diagnosed. Therapy can help people and families with ASD in a variety of tangible ways including learning coping strategies, life skills, social skills, and managing behavior issues. Therapy can provide the whole family with skills to navigate communication challenges, sleep pattern disruption, financial difficulties, and challenges with developing family routines that work for everyone. We have clinicians here that are specialized and experienced with diagnosing and providing therapeutic interventions for ASD and are ready to help today.

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) causes impulsive and hyperactive behavior. People with ADHD might have emotional outbursts or trouble focusing. They may be forgetful. They may also find it difficult to pay attention or stay organized. This can cause problems at school or work. Therapy can be effective for treating symptoms related to ADHD including adjusting behaviors, regulating emotions, and learning healthy coping strategies. Planning can be a key area of difficulty for those with ADHD. 

Having a hard time with concentration at school or work can be troublesome. Therapy, with or without medication, can help people manage ADHD. It can help them learn to stay focused and manage impulses. Therapy may also show people more about themselves. They may learn which environments and aids can enhance their attention. Our therapists are here to assist you with developing the skills you and/or your child needs to organize and prioritize your life.

In individuals who suffer from hearing impairment or loss, it is not uncommon to experience some type of psychological impact; including those experiencing a condition commonly known as Tinnitus. Psychological impacts might include mood and emotional issues – anxiety, depression, irritability, sadness, guilt, shame. Thinking and work disturbance– impaired concentration, distractibility, sleep disturbance (studies show that about 70% of people with tinnitus distress have sleep disturbance), avoidance and withdrawal from many activities (loud settings, work settings) 

Daily activities, including relationships, may be impacted negatively causing fear and vulnerability. With Tinnitus, for example, a person may be in survival mode and under stress at the beginning of the diagnosis and experience of symptoms. This drains energy and affects attention to spouse or partner. Often, people with tinnitus do not share their experience or they quickly feel that their partners don’t want to hear the same complaints again. This increases withdrawal and social isolation. Gaps in knowledge about tinnitus, hearing impairment and loss, and a lack of understanding of how to help, can put additional strain on relationships.  A persistent, negative emotional reaction to hearing impairment and tinnitus can often exacerbate an individual’s distress and impair general functioning in a variety of ways. 

Seeking help from a trained clinician can help alleviate and mitigate the stress and impairment of functioning. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy works to develop understanding what is causing the tinnitus or hearing impairment distress and resistance, and to decrease the emotional reaction, avoidance, and negative thoughts related.

Sound healing corrects energetic imbalances within us with different instruments. By clearing out energetic clutter, we are able to reconnect with stillness and refocus the mind. We use this therapeutic practice alongside another energy practice, Reiki, for maximum benefit.

Reiki is a type of energy healing practice. It comes from the Japanese words “rei,” meaning universal, and “ki,” meaning life energy. According to Eastern beliefs, energy can become stagnant in the body where there is emotional or physical injury. These blockages can cause all types of mental, emotional, and physical discomfort. Reiki aims to help the flow of energy and remove blockages. A Reiki practitioner uses gentle touch — or places their hands just above your body — to help guide this energy in a way that promotes balance and healing.

In a typical session, the client lays on a massage table fully dressed while various instruments are used to help the client enter a meditative state. Tuning forks, chimes, Himalayan sound bowls and more are used around the body to help activate regenerative pathways and heal on a cellular level. Throughout the session, Reiki energy will be channeled and may involve hands on touch. Light sensations like warmth, floating, and tingling may be experienced during the session. Some of the beneficial effects include: Deep relaxation, relief of stress/anxiety, relief from pain, improved digestion, improved concentration, increased sense of well-being, more restful sleep, improved energy flow in the body, normalization of blood pressure, improved self-confidence, feeling more balanced in life, release of emotional trauma, heightened clarity, and spiritual transformation. 

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This evidence-based practice treats mental health concerns through the ancient practice of yoga. Many mental health issues affect our bodies physically, like stress, depression, anxiety and trauma. Therefore, we can ease these mental conditions by using our connection with our bodies.  However, therapeutic yoga does not look like studio yoga. This practice is individualized to cultivate both mindfulness and awareness, restore the balance between mind and body, and address symptoms of trauma.  

During your first session, you and your therapist will explore, create and flow through various postures that may help bring awareness to various physical sensations. In therapeutic yoga, you do what feels good for YOUR body and develop the power of choice — something that has often been taken away when we have traumatic experiences.  Everything about the practice is optional, gentle, and designed to help individuals heal their bodies.

This type of yoga can help ease chronic stress (fight or flight mode), which, if left untreated, leads to increased levels of cortisol (the body’s primary stress hormone) and underlies many physical and mental health issues. Regular yoga practices have been shown to naturally decrease cortisol levels and give the body a chance to experience rest. Some of the benefits include reduced symptoms related to anxiety, depression and stress, increased self-confidence, more energy, personal/spiritual growth, greater acceptance, and empowerment. 

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Breathwork techniques can disconnect us from stressful thoughts, help our nervous system and balance body and energy. Somatic release breathwork can address the subconscious mind and release stored negative emotions, stagnant energy, and other trama. It is a highly effective and powerful tool to remove energetic blockages. If we leave these blockages untreated, they can lead to many physical ailments such as chronic fatigue, migraines, digestive disorders, and autoimmune conditions. 

We can combine the somatic release breathwork with mindfulness stress release as well. Mindfulness occurs when we are fully present and aware of where we are and what we’re doing, rather than being reactive and overwhelmed by our circumstances. We all have the ability to practice mindfulness inherent in us — we just have to access it. 

In breathwork sessions, clients lay on their backs on a mat in a position that is comfortable for them. They may bring blankets, pillows, eye masks or we can provide them. The practitioner guides the client through breathing patterns throughout the session, but the client is in control at all times. With so many mindfulness techniques, a successful practice depends on what is best for the client. The practitioner and client will explore these many techniques including breathing techniques, exploration of senses, qi gong, movement, mindful walking, and even mindful eating. These therapies, breathwork and mindfulness can be combined if desired by the client. 

Some of the benefits include lower blood pressure, better sleep, stronger immune system, lower stress hormones, reduced depression and anxiety, increased relaxation and peace, greater ability to enjoy the present and more. Balanced blood pressure, more restful sleep, reduction of nervous system dysregulation from trauma, stronger respiratory function, stronger immune system, and release of stress hormones from your body.

Some emotional benefits may include: fewer feelings of depression and anxiety, better outlook on life, boosted confidence, self-image, & self-esteem, more feelings of contentment & joy, better mental focus, deep relaxation & inner peace, greater ability to enjoy the present and not worry about past or future, decrease in addictive behaviors, release emotional pain/grief, enriched creativity, aid in positive self-development, increased self-awareness, feelings of deep love and connectedness, profound healing from old wounds, and better emotional and nervous system regulation.