Individual Counseling

Specializing in anxiety, depression, and PTSD

It Begins Within Healing Center offers a wide range of mental health services for individuals, especially when trauma is at the core of distress. Our therapists are committed to helping clients regain empowerment in their lives through a strengths-and-research-based approach to therapy.

IBWHC provides trauma-focused individual counseling for residents in the Tampa Bay area struggling with:

  • Generalized Anxiety disorder

  • Social anxiety

  • Panic Disorder

  • Specific phobia 

  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder 

  • Depression

  • Trauma

  • PTSD

  • Premarital and marital issues/ couples counseling

Our therapists are educated and trained in state-of-the-art cognitive and behavioral therapies:

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

  • Person Centered Therapy (PCT)

  • Trauma Focused - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)

  • Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)

  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy 

  • Accelerated Resolutions Therapy (ART)

We encourage you to book a session and begin the healing process.

Anxiety Therapy

IBWHC therapists are trained to work with clients suffering from all anxiety disorders.

Depression Therapy

We offer therapy for depression, including cognitive and behavioral therapy and talk therapy.

Trauma Therapy

Our specialized, highly skilled trauma therapists offer support and relief from the symptoms of past traumas, including PTSD.

Grief Healing

We work with clients through the grieving process, helping them understand and accept how they are thinking and feeling.

ADHD Therapy

ADHD in children and adults can be managed with behavioral therapy, medication, and social skills training.

OCD Therapy

We offer therapy for those with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and the anxiety often associated with it.

FAQs about therapeutic approaches

  • EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy approach that gives clients the ability to process memories and disturbing feelings from past traumas. This facilitates healing at an accelerated pace, often much faster than traditional “talk therapies.”

  • PCT is a non-directive, empathic treatment approach that helps empower and motivate clients throughout the therapeutic process. This approach involves following the clients’ lead, while providing support, guidance, and structure so that the client can discover individual solutions within themselves, to facilitate change.

  • TF-CBT is a short-term, evidence-based treatment for those who have experienced a traumatic life event. TF-CBT combines CBT approaches with exposure therapy, and focuses on alleviating post-traumatic stress symptoms, including depression, anxiety, and trauma-related shame and mistrust.

  • Clients are taught to challenge their beliefs and thoughts about their traumatic experience(s) through a Socratic therapy method. Then modify extreme beliefs to bring the belief system into balance, which ultimately impacts one’s quality of life. The therapy progresses systematically through common cognitive areas that are disrupted by trauma: safety, trust, control, esteem, and intimacy.

  • Accelerated resolution therapy is an evidence-based therapeutic approach that combines several techniques such as rapid eye movement and image rescripting to reduce the effect of trauma and other psychological stressors. ART is effective because the approach works to recondition stressful memories and change how they are stored in the brain to improve overall mental health.