Individual
Whether short-term solution-focused work, or longer-term goals for how therapy may support and sustain improved quality of life, our clients’ personal values ensure a solid, practical path forward. While many individuals seek support through a difficult decision-making process, others seek changes to life-long problematic emotional and behavioral patterns.
The focus of therapy typically includes the improvement of their spousal, partner, familial, and/or professional relationships. For many clients, their own identity, experience, self-concept is part of this process. Our goal is to be collaborative and curious on behalf of goal-oriented change.
Individual Therapy in Los Angeles: What to Expect
Individual therapy is one hour a week in which the subject is you, without having to manage anyone else’s reaction to what you say. That is a plainer description than most, and it is the accurate one. Some people arrive with a specific decision to make. Others arrive because a pattern has repeated often enough to stop looking like coincidence.
How sessions are structured
Sessions are 50 minutes, usually weekly at the start. Weekly is not a formality: patterns are easier to see when the thread is not dropped for a fortnight between sessions. Frequency can change later once the work has traction.
There is no single method applied to everyone here. The approach is pragmatic: psychodynamic when the question is where a pattern came from, behavioral and structural when the question is what to do on Tuesday, and psychoeducational when the missing piece is simply information nobody ever gave you.
What people bring here
Common reasons adults begin individual therapy in this practice: anxiety that has started dictating decisions; depression that has become the baseline; adult ADHD, diagnosed or suspected; grief; a transition that looks like good news from the outside; questions about sex, desire or identity; and the strain of a relationship in which one person is doing the noticing.
Individual work alongside couples work
Work can begin individually and move to couples therapy later, or the reverse. Individual work while a couple is also in therapy is handled carefully and discussed openly, so that nobody is left guessing what is being held where.
Getting started
Consultations are free and run 15 to 40 minutes. Call (310) 927-1755, email michael@michaelneetherapy.com, or use the contact page. The office is at 13101 W. Washington Boulevard, Suite 454, Los Angeles, CA 90066, minutes from Marina del Rey, Venice and Santa Monica, and telehealth is available anywhere in California.