Individual Therapy
You Never Had a Week Bad Enough to Call About
The week went fine.
You got up, you went, you came back, and you did it again.
Somebody asked how you were, and you said good; you weren’t lying, exactly.
Nothing happened worth calling anybody about. Nothing happened last week either. That’s most of a year now.
The people you used to look forward to seeing are still in your phone.
You answer them a day late.
You Get Here One of Two Ways
Some people arrive with an evaluation behind them and a name for what they’ve been managing on their own.
An accurate name changes what you aim at. It doesn’t move anything on its own.
Other people have never been tested and never will be, because testing was never the question.
You want the hour.
Something has been running for a while, and you’d like one person a week whose whole job is to hear about it.
Both doors open into the same room, and nobody here is going to ask what qualifies you to be sitting in it.
Your First Weeks Are Mostly You Talking
The work moves more slowly than an answer does.
Early on, you talk, and your counselor listens for the shape of it: what set it off, and what keeps it running now.
Then the two of you pick one thing to change that’s within reach this month.
If a report is what brought you, the handoff into counseling happens in-house.
You Get a Say in Who You Sit With
Which counselor you see depends on what you’re bringing and how you want to meet.
Dr. Brent Powell is in the New Albany office full-time and sees adults, including men’s issues.
Jeremiah Andrews is part-time, fully virtual, and sees young adults and adults.
Jeremiah uses CBT and DBT.
CBT traces a thought to the behavior it produced and goes after the link in that chain that you have some say over.
DBT builds specific skills for the moments that run hotter than your current ones reach.
Sessions run about an hour, in the office or by video, anywhere in Mississippi.
Dr. Powell works with couples, too, and that has its own page.
Somebody Asks How You’ve Been, and It Takes Longer
Months from now, the week still goes by, and most of it still goes fine.
You still get up, go, and come back.
Somebody asks how you’ve been, and the answer takes longer than one word, because there’s something in it.
The people you used to look forward to seeing hear back from you the same day.
The hour stays on the calendar, and you’d notice if it were gone now.
You Can Call Before You Have a Word for It
The consultation is complimentary and runs for 15 minutes.
We’ll sort out whether counseling here is a good fit and which of the two counselors it should be with.
Call the office or sign up online.