Individual Therapy in Tampa, FL

Private time with your therapist is a working conversation built around your own treatment goals, not a lecture and not a free-for-all. Most meetings follow a loose arc that your therapist adapts to whatever the week brought:

1. A check-in on the days since you last met — sleep, mood, work, the moments that went sideways and the ones that went better than expected.
2. A look back at group material — anything from the week’s theme that stirred something up, or that you held back from saying in a room full of people.
3. Focused skill work — rehearsing a coping tool, challenging a thought pattern, or planning a small exposure step if anxiety or OCD is part of the picture.
4. A plan for the coming days — one or two concrete things to try before your next group, so practice happens in real life rather than only in the office.

Nothing is scripted. Some weeks are mostly listening and sorting through a hard event; others are almost entirely practice. Your therapist reads where you are and shapes the time around it.

Individual therapy and group therapy run as two halves of one plan. Each person in Karuna’s ten-week intensive outpatient program in Tampa attends three days of group therapy per week and one individual therapy session per week, and the two are designed to feed each other.

Groups teach and practice skills around a rotating theme — boundaries and codependency, anger and forgiveness, grief and loss, control and surrender, among others. Your individual time is where that theme meets your actual life. If a group on boundaries leaves you thinking about a particular relationship, that relationship becomes the material you and your therapist work with privately. If something in group felt too raw to share aloud, it has a safe place to land.

Because the themes rotate rather than run in a set order, it does not matter which week you start. Your therapist helps you connect whatever theme is current to the goals you set at intake.

Your individual time is scheduled around the track you choose. Groups meet Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, either 9:00am to 12:00pm or 6:00pm to 9:00pm, and your one-on-one meeting is fitted somewhere into that week — sometimes inside group hours, sometimes just outside them, depending on what works for you and your therapist.

• Evening participants work one-on-one with Mia Martinez, a master’s level clinician who provides individual therapy for the evening program.
• Morning participants meet an individual therapist from the same in-house clinical team, working under the program built by clinic director Dylan Hollander.
• In person or on screen — meet at 10840 Sheldon Rd Suite B, or join through our secure video therapy option for Tampa and the rest of Florida. Many people mix the two from week to week.

Progress is measured at four set points: when you start, after your first month, after your second month and when you finish. Your individual therapist reviews those check-ins with you, so conversations about how things are going rest on something more concrete than a general sense of better or worse.

Those measures also guide decisions about length of stay. Ten weeks is the minimum commitment rather than a ceiling, and if you and your therapist agree more time would help, the program can continue. When you finish, an optional alumni connection keeps periodic check-in calls and an open line back to the team.

The program operates under accreditation from The Joint Commission and a Florida AHCA Health Care Clinic license, #14736; both are listed on our accreditation and licensure details.

“Could I come for the individual part only?”

No — and the reason is clinical, not administrative. Private time works because it sits beside the group days, where skills get taught and practiced with other adults. As Karuna’s CEO Harrison Spielman puts it: “We don’t offer a magic pill. We don’t offer a magic solution, but we offer those skills.” The combination is how those skills get built.

“How is this different from seeing a private therapist once a week?”

A typical weekly appointment stands alone, with a full week of real life between visits. Here your therapist already knows what you worked on in group earlier that week, and another group follows soon after. That tighter loop suits adults whose symptoms have outgrown a once-a-week check-in.

“What actually happens after I call?”

A short phone conversation, then an assessment, then your first group — and for someone who is ready, all of it can happen on the same day. We check your benefits during that process. With in-network insurance (Blue Cross Blue Shield or TriCare) you are responsible for your plan’s deductible only; private pay is accepted, and payment plans are available.

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