Individual Therapy

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT is one of the most common types of therapy. During your sessions, you will address unhelpful thought patterns and beliefs driving your behaviors. By changing your thoughts, you can change the way you act.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

DBT is a type of psychotherapy that derives from CBT. DBT is best for people who struggle with emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and all-or-nothing thinking. The main focus of DBT is accepting “dialectics”—or two ideas that are contradictory yet true at the same time.

Motivational Interviewing (MI)

MI is a short-term psychotherapy that helps you discover internal motivation for treatment. Sometimes, you lose sight of why you’re in treatment. Or, you could be in treatment due to external pressure. MI helps you find your own reasons to get better.

Substance Abuse Counseling

If you have an addiction or a dual-diagnosis disorder, substance abuse counseling will help you understand the nature of your addiction. That way, you can learn your addiction triggers and underlying causes. This will help to prevent relapses after treatment.

Accelerated Resolution Therapy

During ART, your therapist guides you through replacing negative mental images with positive ones. This is helpful for processing traumatic events and helps with a number of disorders, like PTSD, anxiety, depression, phobias, and substance abuse.

Programs That Offer Individual Therapy

All of our outpatient programs in Tampa, Florida, offer individual psychotherapy. Our programs have a mix of group therapy, psychoeducation, holistic approaches, and individual therapy. That way, you get a comprehensive treatment plan that addresses multiple issues at the same time.
Individual therapy is available at the following programs:

Partial Hospitalization Program

PHP programs, also called day treatment, offer structured programming six days a week. Most of the programming involves group sessions. Our clients get one session of individual therapy per week to work through personal issues that require one-on-one attention.

Intensive Outpatient Program

An IOP program is similar to PHP, except that the program schedule is much more flexible. This allows you to resume other responsibilities, such as going to work, attending school, or taking care of your family. Like PHP, you get one individual therapy session per week.

Regular Outpatient Program

During regular outpatient programming, you choose how often you need to see your therapist. Most clients come in once per week for an hourly session. This helps you continue treatment for lingering issues after completing higher levels of care.

Long-Term Rehab

At Tampa Bay Recovery Center, we offer a long-term rehab program for clients in addiction and dual-diagnosis treatment. This 90-day program includes detox, PHP, and IOP. Throughout your program, you will attend individual sessions with a trained therapist.

What is an Individual Therapy Session Like at Tampa Bay Recovery Center?

An individual therapy session will provide you with the privacy you need to open up about your current struggles with mental health and addiction. Our therapist will meet you in a safe and secure setting within our treatment facility. Oftentimes, individual therapy will augment your outpatient IOP or PHP program.

During your first session, your therapist will ask you questions about your background, family history, current living situation, and presenting concerns. This helps the therapist build out a treatment plan based on your needs. You and your therapist will also discuss what you hope to get from the sessions.

After the initial session, you’ll work on building skills to help you cope with stressors and triggers in the real world. In some sessions, you might need space to vent and feel heard. Other times, your therapist will need to ask pointed questions to draw out more information to help you.

In addition, while your sessions will focus on specific outcomes from your plan, there is flexibility in your sessions. For instance, if something new comes up in your life that you aren’t sure how to handle, you can discuss this during your session that week. Alternatively, new changes in life could shift your focus entirely—meaning that you need to alter your treatment plan.

Based on your diagnosis and presenting concerns, your therapist will suggest and work through a particular modality with you, such as CBT or DBT. You could also have “homework” between sessions, such as journaling, resolving a conflict with a loved one, or standing up for yourself at work.