Individual Therapy

You’ve hit a breaking point.

You’ve been at this battle in your mind for a while. It’s an exhausting fight.

You look at what’s actually happening in your life versus what you wish was happening and see such a big difference.

How did you get so far behind or away from your intentions?

You know you could have done a lot more if you didn’t have your mental health problems sucking you down or nagging you away from the life you’re trying to live.

Life’s responsibilities continue to mount, and you’re just not ready. The next thing coming down the line seems insurmountable and unavoidable. You’re trying to summon what you’ve got to handle the inevitable.

You’ve been scrolling and searching for answers.

Maybe you’ve been to therapy, and it was a place where you could vent, get some ideas, and feel “okay” that day. But you probably left sessions feeling like nothing happened.

It felt like you got someone to help you through a rough time with some tips and practices to help you through future rough times, but the therapy didn’t feel thorough or deep.

You were hoping for a mind-altering, mind-shifting, mind-opening experience that improved day-to-day life. Other people enjoy life in ways you’re hoping for. They seem to be experiencing a mindset and perspective you’d like to have, not just be coached.

Sure, it’s nice to have someone to talk to, but you also want a NOTICEABLE change for your time and money!

It’s time to do something different this time!

Great news! You’ve finally found a therapist who can help you make deep changes that affect every part of you.

From my perspective, starting with typical talk therapy, such as Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), is like the saying “putting the cart before the horse.” Let me explain.

Let’s say you were in a car accident, and your leg was damaged in many ways. The doctor says, “Well, you can start physical therapy tomorrow and learn to walk again,” without mentioning healing your injuries. How are you supposed to walk and put weight on a leg that may need to be set to heal a broken bone or skin cleaned off to begin healing?

In the analogy, Somatic Breathwork is setting the bone and cleaning the skin, and CBT is physical therapy. In therapy with me, we HEAL you before I begin teaching you how to think about and interact with the world around you.

You’ll change from within, and you’ll change your relationship with others… and the world around you.

Moving beyond conversation…

For most of us, it’s been drilled into our heads the way to work through problems is to talk about them.

When we do that, and it doesn’t work, we have MORE conversations. And if that doesn’t work, we have conversations with a PROFESSIONAL.

Well… what do you do when THAT doesn’t work?

You’ve probably already suspected that your problems are much deeper than what can be fixed in conversation. And while it’s true relationships require ongoing, authentic, skilled conversation, there’s a more effective way to get better in individual therapy.

Let’s take therapy to another level… literally.

Talking and conversation happen in the “thinking and figuring out” part of your brain that sits at the top and front of your brain.

But most of the problematic stuff with your emotions sits deeper in your brain, and that’s what you need to get to. I’m skilled at accessing that part of your mind.

With some time, we will see what is hidden down in your brain that’s ready to come out.

Let’s take therapy to a different level of your brain with a technique you may have never heard of…

It’s a breathing technique called “Somatic Breathwork.”

Unlike some breathing techniques meant to soothe you in a moment of stress, Somatic Breathwork is quite stimulating.

For full detail on what the technique entails, please see more detail on my Somatic Breathwork page.

A typical individual therapy session is either a Somatic Breathwork or a talk session. In the latter, we piece together what comes up in your breathwork sessions and how to integrate those insights into your life.

In our first few sessions, I’ll gather the necessary information to coordinate your breathwork path. We’ll also come up with treatment goals. I usually recommend three treatment goals that, upon completion, will tell us when you’re ready to graduate from therapy. Examples of treatment goals might be…

“Reduce or eliminate negative thinking and self-talk,”

“Have a better relationship with mother as defined by fewer fights and feeling less triggered,”

Or “Reduce or eliminate panic attacks.”

I aim to meet those treatment goals AND reduce your depression, anxiety, and PTSD symptoms.

I know that seems like it’s impossible, but it’s not. Clients with major depressive disorders, generalized anxiety, and disruptive PTSD make strides so significant that they seldom have episodes after treatment.

No treatment is a silver bullet that cures everything, but breathwork will always get to what is wrong and help you work on it.

I might have a checklist, but you won’t need one. You’ll know. You’ll feel like a different person, thinking, feeling, and doing things you didn’t know were possible. You’ll be your real self and no longer need therapy.

Let’s work together to get you where you want to be.

I’m here when you’re ready to learn more about Somatic Breathwork and how therapy with me gets to the root cause of what you’re going through right now.

Call me at (805) 836-0975 or email me at therapy@drlesliewright.com for a free 20-minute consultation. I can answer your questions and learn more about what you want in therapy.