Online Therapy Sessions

Initial Session:

Your initial session will be dedicated towards learning more about you, your background, and your history. This also includes your current concerns and goals for online therapy. Your therapist will also create a treatment plan. This will have clear objectives and goals to track progress throughout counseling. This is where your therapist will take the time to get to know you and what you want out of therapy. Your therapists’ main goal is to make sure that you are as comfortable as possible.

Subsequent Sessions:

These sessions are where the real work begins! Dr. Vanessa will work with you to understand more about you, your past, your current struggles. Druing these sessions you will be working together to address your biggest concerns and ant deep-rooted issues while also helping you develop healthier coping skills. Therapy can seem a bit intimidating at times so Dr. Vanessa will always do her best to help you feel comfortable, understood, and supported while also gently providing constructive feedback when needed and helpful. Once you start implementing the healthier coping skills and making small but consistent changes for the better you may start to see and experience a healthier, happier you. Over time, the goal is that you gain more self-awareness and self confidence while achieving your goals.

Termination:

Termination is also known as the ending stage of therapy. This will be a collaborative process. This means that you and Dr. Vanessa will work together on assessing whether you’ve achieved most or all of your therapeutic goals and if termination of therapy is best during that time.

Initial Session:

Your initial couples session is dedicated to learning more about you as a couple and as individuals. Dr. Vanessa will explore the background and history of your relationship and discuss your current relational concerns and goals for therapy. She will also create a treatment plan with clear objectives and goals based on your desired outcomes. Throughout counseling, she will use the established plan to track progression until the completion of couples counseling.

Subsequent sessions:

These sessions are dedicated to working towards your counseling goals as a couple. You and Dr. Vanessa will have the difficult conversations you may have been avoiding. This will help you begin the healing and forgiveness process and move forward. Your therapist will never work with one individual without the other present. You and your partner will receive the necessary tools to increase communication, listening, problem-solving, and much more. Throughout counseling, she will use the established treatment plan to track progress until the completion of couples counseling.

Termination:

Termination is also known as the ending stage of therapy. This will be a collaborative process. This means that you and Dr. Vanessa will work together on assessing whether you’ve achieved most or all of your therapeutic goals and if termination of therapy is best during that time.

The guideline that is used to know when you and your partner are in this stage is based on you both completing your therapy goals. This also includes an increase in healthy communication, listening, and trust within your relationship.