I offer individual therapy in Bellevue, WA for people dealing with anxiety/panic attacks, work stress, burnout, and an increasing sense of meaninglessness in their lives.
Maybe you feel stuck, chronically overwhelmed, lost at work or in your relationship. Maybe you feel miles away from the life you hoped for.
Therapy can help you find more creative solutions to your problems. Together, we’ll work to build a life that’s bigger, brighter, and more resilient than the one you’re living today.
A practical and meaningful approach to individual therapy
My approach to individual therapy combines ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) with other depth-psychology approaches (psychodynamic and existential psychotherapy). You’ll develop practical tools you can use right away while also taking a deeper look at what’s shaping your life under the surface. When insight and action come together, you can more easily move toward what matters most to you in life.
The Journey of Individual Therapy
It's hard to get better by ourselves. Sometimes we need the safety and focus of a 'helpful other' so we can get to where we want to go in life.
Getting stuck is easy. It's even easier to stay there.
These are some of the important parts of an individual therapy journey that are essential to getting us unstuck and back on a path to more freedom, flexibility, and joy.
Understanding the nature of your problems today
Making sense of the story of your past (not wallowing in it, but really understanding how all the chapters fit together)
Offering compassion and support for what you are experiencing
Learning how to accept and make room for all parts of yourself (especially the parts you don't like)
Discovering how the mind and the brain work; how relationships and emotions work, how you work
Gaining a clearer idea of the kind of life you want; where you want to go, what gives your life meaning
Uncovering what seems to get in your way in work, in love, and in life (obstacles to change)
Finding the courage to be the person you want to be
Developing a plan to help you commit to taking the actions in your life that will lead to change
Encouraging persistence, perseverance, and course corrections in the face of set backs
Access Your Instinct for Growth, Discovery, and Healing
While it's true that life brings us a lot of challenges (relationship problems, life transitions, depression and anxiety, anger, work stress, conflicts from our past, warring parts of our personality, trauma/abuse histories, grief, parenting/family problems, spiritual issues) there's one thing I know to be equally true: we all have a powerful, life giving instinct that drives us forward -- to grow, to discover, to heal.
In individual therapy I can help you access that instinct so you can face your fears, imagine what's possible, and then take action to move in the direction of your biggest dreams.
When you know how your head works and how your heart works, you can make your life work.
Ready to take the next step?
Individual Therapy in Bellevue and online across Washington
Call (425) 326-1690 or email joe@joebutlertherapy.com