Individual Therapy
Individual therapy is your private space to do the deeper work, one-on-one with a licensed clinician who knows your whole story. Our individual therapy for mental health and addiction in Massachusetts pairs you with the same therapist across every level of care, so trust builds and progress never resets.
What Is Individual Therapy?
Individual therapy is one-on-one work between you and a licensed clinician, focused entirely on you, your history, your triggers, your goals. While group therapy offers connection, individual sessions offer depth and privacy. It is where the most personal work happens, the trauma, the patterns, the things that are hard to say out loud in a room full of people.
What makes New Wave different is continuity. With our individual therapy for mental health and addiction in Massachusetts, you keep the same therapist as you move from one level of care to the next. You are never handed off and never asked to start your story over, and that continuous relationship is part of what makes the work go deep and the change hold.
Who Individual Therapy Is For
Individual therapy benefits nearly everyone in recovery, and it is especially important if you:
- Are carrying trauma you have never fully addressed
- Live with a mental health condition alongside substance use
- Find it hard to open up in group settings
- Want care tailored precisely to your history and goals
- Need a private space to work through shame or grief
- Value building deep trust with one consistent clinician
How Individual Therapy Helps Mental Health and Addiction
One-on-one work is where the roots of both addiction and mental health struggles get untangled, because the two are almost always connected.
For addiction, individual therapy uncovers the personal triggers and beliefs that drive use, then builds tailored strategies to interrupt them. Because the work is private, you can be fully honest about cravings, slips, and fears in a way that is hard to do anywhere else, which makes the relapse-prevention planning far more precise.
For mental health, individual sessions are often where trauma, anxiety, and depression are treated directly, at your own pace, with a clinician you trust. Since untreated mental health conditions are one of the biggest drivers of relapse, healing them one-on-one protects your sobriety at the same time. This is the core of true dual-diagnosis care.
Specific techniques your therapist may draw on include:
Your individual sessions work alongside group therapy and daily holistic care, and coordinate with medication management when that is part of your plan.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to reframe unhelpful thoughts
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills for intense emotions
- Trauma-informed approaches that move at your pace
- Motivational work to strengthen your commitment to change
- Personalized trigger mapping and relapse-prevention planning
- Goal-setting and steady progress tracking session to session
The Benefits of Individual Therapy
Your one-on-one sessions are tailored entirely to you, which is what lets the work reach the things underneath the surface.
The relationship you build with your therapist is itself part of the healing, and it is one you keep from your first day to your last.
- A private, judgment-free space to be fully honest
- Work on trauma, anxiety, depression, and the roots of use
- Personalized coping and relapse-prevention strategies
- Goal-setting and steady progress tracking
- The same trusted therapist across all levels of care
- Care tailored to your pace and your needs
Explore Our Clinical Therapies
Each of our evidence-based therapies works together as part of your individualized plan. Explore the others in this approach.
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Individual Therapy
One-on-one work with your own clinician.
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The same therapist throughout
You keep your private therapist as you move between levels of care, so your progress is never interrupted and you never start over.
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Reiki, yoga, sound healing, and mindfulness are woven into daily treatment alongside evidence-based therapy, not offered once in a while.
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Our licensed clinicians and team, many in long-term recovery themselves, are who you will work with at New Wave.
Angela Faccone
Co-Founder & Program Director
Charles Draleau
Executive Director
Melanie Draleau
Co-Founder & Reiki Practitioner
Ryan SmithBratton
Co-Founder & Director of Community Outreach
Danielle Visone
Mental Health Counselor & Clinical Director
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Individual Therapy FAQs
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What is individual therapy in addiction and mental health treatment?
Individual therapy is private, one-on-one work with a licensed clinician focused on your personal history, triggers, and recovery goals. It allows for deeper work on both addiction and co-occurring mental health conditions than group settings alone.
Will I have the same therapist throughout?
Yes. At New Wave you keep the same private therapist as you move between levels of care, so your progress is never interrupted and you never start over.
Can individual therapy treat anxiety, depression, or trauma?
Yes. One-on-one sessions are often where mental health conditions and trauma are treated directly, at your own pace, with a trauma-informed clinician you trust.
What approaches are used in individual therapy?
Your therapist tailors the work to you, often drawing on evidence-based approaches like CBT and DBT, alongside trauma-informed and motivational techniques.
How often will I have individual sessions?
It depends on your level of care and your individual plan. Your therapist will set a rhythm that fits your needs and adjust it as you progress.
Is individual therapy covered by insurance?
Often yes. We are in-network with WellSense and approved through MassHealth (the plan we accept is WellSense). Our team can verify your benefits.
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