Individual Counseling
Learn to be your own best friend
We help you repair and strengthen your relationship with yourself, giving you greater resilience as you navigate life's challenges.
A Strengths-Based Approach to Change
At Summit Counseling, we believe therapy should help you understand what is working within you—not simply what is wrong with you. We pay attention to your strengths, resilience, effort, relationships, and capacity for change rather than defining you by symptoms, diagnoses, or past mistakes.
Change often begins with a different kind of relationship—with yourself. Gentleness and compassion create space to understand what is keeping you stuck, while building the confidence and flexibility to respond differently when life becomes difficult. Our goal is not to eliminate every challenge, but to help you develop the internal resources, self-understanding, and comforting and strong internal voice that allow you to meet those challenges with greater security and resilience.
At Summit, we draw from several evidence-based approaches and tailor therapy to the person, family, or relationship in front of us. Whatever therapeutic approach we use, we return to a central question: How can we help you develop a healthier relationship with yourself and with the people who matter most?
We work with a wide range of concerns, including relationship difficulties, depression, anxiety, trauma, substance use, addiction, anger, emotional regulation, and behavioral challenges. Whether you are struggling with something specific or simply know that something in your life needs to change, therapy can provide a place to understand what is happening, reconnect with your strengths, experience the emotions that seem intolerable, and move forward with greater clarity and confidence.
Our Individual Counseling Techniques
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT)
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) applies the principles of Emotionally Focused Therapy to individual therapy. It helps you understand the emotions and relationship patterns underlying your struggles so you can respond to yourself and others with greater security, flexibility, and confidence.
Rather than simply managing symptoms, EFIT explores what you feel, what those emotions are telling you, and how they shape the way you relate to yourself and the people around you. In a safe, supportive environment, therapy helps you access and make sense of difficult emotions, develop greater self-awareness, and create new ways of responding when you feel overwhelmed, disconnected, or stuck.
EFIT can be particularly helpful for anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship difficulties, emotional regulation, self-esteem, and major life transitions, including divorce, loss, and career changes.
The goal is not to eliminate difficult emotions, but to develop a more secure relationship with yourself—so you can navigate life and your relationships with greater resilience and connection
COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY (CBT)
Our thoughts can sometimes become an inner voice that is overly critical, discouraging, or limiting. CBT helps you recognize these patterns, understand how they influence your emotions and behavior, and develop more helpful ways of responding.
Together, therapist and client identify unhelpful automatic thoughts and test whether they reflect the whole picture. CBT can also help clients gradually face situations they fear rather than avoiding them, building confidence through new experiences.
CBT is commonly used for anxiety, depression, stress, and self-criticism. Depending on your needs, therapy may incorporate practical tools such as mindfulness, behavioral strategies, and more compassionate self-talk.
The goal isn't to replace every difficult thought with a positive one. It's to develop a more balanced, flexible, and supportive way of relating to yourself and the challenges you face.
TRAUMA-FOCUSED CBT
This evidenced based therapy for children follows a sequence of steps designed to develop relaxation and self-regulation skills while re-exposing a child in a constructive way to their trauma to reduce PTSD symptoms.