What Even is Individual Therapy?
Most people come to individual therapy carrying something they've never quite been able to say out loud. Whatever brought you here, individual therapy at Tenet is a space to slow down, get honest, and start building something that actually feels like yours.
People come to Tenet for help with:
Anxiety & Stress · Repressed or Unexpressed Emotion · Relationship Patterns · Social Struggles · Career & Identity · Meaning & Purpose · Vulnerability & Emotional Openness · Shame & Self-Worth · Life Transitions
What Clients Work On
Identity & Self-Understanding
Shame & Healing
Breaking Old Patterns
Emotional Growth
Finding Direction
How It Works
Sessions are 50 minutes, though extended sessions are available when the work calls for it. Most clients begin meeting weekly or every two weeks, with frequency adjusting naturally as goals are met and progress takes hold.
Every session begins with the highs and lows since we last met — a simple but grounding way to stay connected to your real life rather than a curated version of it. Ty comes to every session with a plan, but your needs always take priority over the agenda. Sessions typically close with an application moment — an intentional pause to name what you're taking away and how you want to put it to use before you walk out the door. Most clients leave with something concrete to work on between sessions.
The Approach
At his core, Ty is an existential humanistic therapist. That means the work is fundamentally about helping you figure out who you actually are — beneath the noise, the conditioning, and the shame that accumulates from living in a world that hands you an identity before you're old enough to question it.
That existential foundation is supported by a range of evidence-based approaches: Polyvagal Theory to understand how your nervous system shapes your experience before your mind catches up, Attachment Theory to make sense of how you connect and why it sometimes goes sideways, Narrative Therapy to examine and rewrite the stories you've inherited about yourself, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to build practical tools for real life. You won't hear a lot of clinical language in session. What you'll get instead is a real conversation — grounded in science, translated into something that actually lands.
Shame lives quietly in all of this. It doesn't announce itself — it just slowly convinces you that who you are, what you want, and how you love are fundamentally wrong. Individual therapy at Tenet creates space to recognize shame for what it is, loosen its grip, and start moving from a place of genuine self-understanding instead.
Men in Therapy
A note for the men who almost didn't make an appointment.
There's a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from white-knuckling your emotional life for years. Performing competence. Managing everything. Feeling things privately and moving on quickly because that's what you learned to do.
Ty has a specific interest in working with men who are ready to stop managing and start actually feeling — not as a deficit to correct, but as an unlocking of something most men were never given permission to access. Emotional intelligence isn't soft. It's the thing that quietly determines the quality of every relationship, every decision, and every version of yourself you bring to the world.
This isn't about dismantling who you are. It's about giving you access to more of yourself.
Individual Therapy Might Be for You If...
- You're carrying something you've never quite said out loud
- You feel disconnected from yourself, your relationships, or your sense of direction
- You're navigating shame, identity, or a life that doesn't quite fit
- You're ready to do something new and real with your emotional life
- You want a therapist who is warm, direct, and won't waste your time
