Individual and Group Therapy
Individual Therapy
Individual psychotherapy provides students with a place to focus intensively on personal issues and their solutions, build a trusting client-therapist relationship, and have their progress monitored by a supportive professional. From this base a student can begin a healing process that is based on a deep understanding of self. Our therapists have the expertise to apply a variety of treatment modalities based on the needs of each young woman in their care. By consulting with other Fulshear staff as part of an inner-disciplinary team, our therapists have the benefit of real-time information from academics, group therapy, and campus life to inform their therapy. This creates a high level of safety and therapeutic responsiveness, which greatly benefits our students.
Fulshear offers individual therapy sessions twice per week during Phase One and once per week during Phase Two and Phase Three.
Group Therapy
Group psychotherapy allows students to apply their individual psychotherapeutic progress in a safe but challenging social context. By interacting in a group setting, a student can gain input from other students and from staff regarding their style of interacting and the behaviors or attitudes they may act out unawares. The group setting also creates a sense of safety, support, and normalcy as young women realize that they are not alone in their personal challenges.
At Fulshear, group therapy is more topical than individual therapy sessions and are often based on a psycho-educational curriculum. Young women can attend groups designed around specific issues, such as body image, addictions, eating disorders, depression, PTSD, sexual boundaries, and school difficulties. This topical focus allows the facilitating therapist to combine education and therapy, and allows young women to support one another as they apply new insights and techniques to a shared struggle. This combination of mutual support, mutual accountability, content-based curriculum, and social practice complements the more focused work of individual therapy.
Fulshear offers numerous groups each week from which students may select.
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