Individual Therapy: Your Dedicated Path to Resilience

Anxiety often feels like a constant volume knob turned up too high, manifesting as persistent worry, panic attacks, social anxiety, or a chronic feeling of being "on edge." We focus on transitioning you from reaction to response.

The Problem: The anxious mind often predicts disaster, leading to avoidance and burnout.

The Pirtle Counseling Solution (Clarity & Tools): We use CBT techniques to identify the catastrophic thoughts driving anxiety, replacing them with balanced perspectives. We integrate mindfulness and DBT distress tolerance skills to ground you in the present moment, teaching your nervous system to regulate itself. The goal is not to eliminate anxiety, but to radically reduce its power over your daily decisions and actions.

Depression can feel heavy and isolating—a lack of motivation, feelings of hopelessness, persistent low mood, or a sense of emotional numbness. This struggle often requires gentle activation and deep understanding.

The Problem: Depression steals energy, motivation, and joy, often leading to isolation and reinforcing negative self-talk.

The Pirtle Counseling Solution (Healing & Forward Movement): Our approach integrates behavioral activation (to gently rebuild healthy routines and engagement) with deep Person-Centered exploration to understand the underlying sources of the sadness (such as unresolved grief or early life experiences). We focus on challenging the depressive narrative and building pathways back toward self-compassion and connection.

Healing from past trauma—difficult or painful experiences that are still impacting your present—is a core area of our expertise. This work requires safety, patience, and a structured approach.

The Problem: Trauma can shatter a person's sense of safety, leading to chronic hypervigilance, flashbacks, and negative beliefs about the self and the world.

The Pirtle Counseling Solution (CPT & Safety): We utilize Trauma-Informed Care principles to ensure absolute safety. Our specialized approach includes Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), which is highly effective in helping you process the trauma narrative and challenge the "stuck points"—the unhelpful beliefs (e.g., "I am unsafe," "I deserved it") that trauma leaves behind. This work leads to genuine emotional integration and reclaiming self-control.

Navigating the complex, non-linear emotions that come with losing a loved one, a job, a relationship, or a significant life transition requires compassionate presence and validation.

The Problem: Society often rushes the grieving process, leaving individuals feeling isolated and uncertain about how to proceed.

The Pirtle Counseling Solution (Acceptance & Integration): We provide a dedicated space for you to honor your loss and explore the waves of emotion—sadness, anger, guilt, confusion—without judgment. We help you understand that grief is a continuous process of adjusting to a new reality, not just moving on. Our goal is to help you integrate the loss into your life story in a way that allows for eventual peace and continued connection.

Difficulty with communication, setting boundaries, navigating conflict, or feeling isolated and disconnected are all common struggles. Healthy relationships start with a healthy relationship with yourself.

The Problem: Unclear boundaries and ineffective communication lead to resentment, chronic conflict, or emotional distance.

The Pirtle Counseling Solution (Interpersonal Effectiveness): We focus on DBT Interpersonal Effectiveness skills, teaching you how to ask for what you need, say "no" appropriately, and manage conflict while maintaining self-respect and mutual regard. By gaining clarity on your own needs and values, you become empowered to build more authentic, fulfilling connections.

This area addresses a constant sense of self-doubt, a lack of confidence, struggling with a negative inner critic, or simply a desire to live more authentically and purposefully.

The Problem: Limiting beliefs, often internalized from childhood, prevent you from pursuing your full potential and living true to your values.

The Pirtle Counseling Solution (Self-Compassion & Vision): We draw on concepts from the "Making Sense of Your Worth" framework to identify and neutralize the power of the inner critic. We help you clarify your values and set achievable goals that align with your truest self, fostering genuine confidence and forward movement toward a deeply satisfying, purposeful life.