Individual Relationship Therapy
Individual Relationship Therapy is a form of therapy that involves working one-on-one with Dr. Monan, a licensed clinical psychologist with 38 years of experience and advanced training from Columbia, Harvard, and the University of Michigan Hospital Systems. She guides individuals facing issues in their relationships or any personal issues, including the search for true love. Dr. Monan helps boost their confidence and improve self-growth in a safe, caring, and confidential environment.
IMAGO-Informed Individual Therapy
Using principles from IMAGO Therapy, individual sessions help clients understand how early life experiences shape present relationship patterns. Clients become aware of their emotional and neurobiological “tender spots,” identify unmet attachment needs, and learn to separate past wounds from current relationships. This process supports a shift from unconscious reactivity to conscious, intentional relating, creating greater clarity, empathy, and hope. IMAGO-based work can be especially helpful for individuals with ADHD/ADD.
IMAGO-Informed Individual Therapy
Using principles from IMAGO Therapy, individual sessions help clients understand how early life experiences shape present relationship patterns. Clients become aware of their emotional and neurobiological “tender spots,” identify unmet attachment needs, and learn to separate past wounds from current relationships. This process supports a shift from unconscious reactivity to conscious, intentional relating, creating greater clarity, empathy, and hope. IMAGO-based work can be especially helpful for individuals with ADHD/ADD.
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EFT-Informed Individual Therapy
Drawing from Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Dr. Monan helps individuals recognize unhelpful emotional cycles that lead to disconnection in relationships. Clients learn to understand their deeper emotions and attachment longings, reduce reactivity, and become more open and emotionally responsive. EFT-informed individual work also supports the healing of attachment injuries, helping clients build safer, more secure relational bonds. PACT-Informed Individual Therapy PACT-informed therapy uses neuroscience, attachment theory, and nervous system regulation to help individuals understand how their brain and body influence relationship behavior. Clients learn to recognize threat responses, regulate emotional intensity, and develop greater self-awareness of their attachment style. This approach supports secure functioning, self-soothing, and the ability to create relationships grounded in kindness, fairness, and mutuality. The areas that I help individuals with include:
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“It is never too late to be who you might have been” ~ George Eliot
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I have been practicing for over 38years and have integrated many ways of helping. Individual Relationship Therapy modalities include interpersonal, cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, mindfulness, and skill-building approaches, short or longer term, depending on the unique needs of the individual. I also use my Imago, EFT, and PACT relationship skills with individuals. I provide neurocognitive psychotherapy for Adults with ADHD, and intensive psychotherapy for individuals with personality disorders, or chronic self-defeating patterns. Hypnotherapy is offered for selected problems.
Adult ADHD/ADD Neurocognitive Psychotherapy: The neurocognitive approach to ADHD/ADD helps clients to understand and accept their brain style. I strive to help them understand their strengths and weaknesses as they go through their daily lives, and focus on their strengths. We will work together to help you develop more "ADD-friendly" lives through learning compensatory strategies for the problem areas and overall management/organizational skills. And most importantly, I will help you celebrate your own unique ADD related “gifts”, and your unique essence.
Self Esteem and Self Compassion Issues: I truly believe that when one learns to deeply and completely love and accept oneself, everything in life gets better. Jack Kornfield said “compassion that does not include the self is incomplete.” In this area, I help my clients become aware of the voice(s) in their head, the conversation, and the sort of company they keep with themselves every day. These unkind, critical voices are most often the internalized voices of negative messages from the past. Through reading, journaling, and becoming more aware, my clients learn to develop a kinder supportive voice that helps them reach for new things and improve their feelings about themselves. They develop a strong sense of “being with “themselves. This is such an important focus for many people in individual work, and can transform a life. A positive, affirming voice that lives within affects for the better, one’s mood, sense of hope, aspirations, and beliefs about what can be accomplished. The sky is the limit.
Coping with Anxiety and Depression: With all the latest research on the brain and its effect on mood, we now know so much more than ever before how to help individuals struggling with low mood or anxiety. I help my clients with this issue through teaching mindfulness and meditation techniques, as well as EFT, Emotional Freedom Techniques commonly known as "Tapping", (See Nick Ortner's Book "The Tapping Solution".) Difficulties are also addressed through the cognitive behavioral technique of looking at the impact of one's thoughts on mood and helping clients shift their thoughts to more helpful ones. For anxiety we focus on multiple breathing techniques, and or neurofeedback/biofeedback practices such as Heart Math which affect the brain physiology directly. Exercise, reaching out for social support, medication if necessary, and developing self-compassion are all helpful additions in this area. Finally, learning with self-compassion to face one’s feelings, rather than resist them, creates a space for a transformative shift. It is a common maxim of therapy that “If you can feel it, you can heal it”.
For Singles: Individual Relationship Therapy focused on finding and sustaining love, dealing with commitment conflicts, or love addiction: I have a special interest is working with Individuals who have been unsuccessful in love, with multiple disappointments in this area in their lives. Therapy strives to help them understand their covert patterns and barriers to love, and how these disappointments repeat. For some, there is an unconscious deep fear of commitment, for others it is more conscious. By understanding and facing their fears, and how they “show up” in relationships, they are often able to shift these patterns, to find and sustain a rewarding Love Relationship. Using concepts from Object Relations Theory, Imago, EFT, and also Katherine Woodward Thomas's "Calling in the One" program, I assist clients in understanding and releasing their internal barriers to love. Work aims at helping them make cognitive and behavioral shifts to usher in a new and deeply satisfying love experience that can be nurtured and sustained. Along these lines, I am certified to offer an Imago Workshop for Individuals called "Keeping the Love You find". This Workshop is designed to help individuals understand their problematic patterns with romantic love and make shifts that will allow for a different outcome. I currently do this in a private format.
Grief Counseling Annapolis: Rebuilding Hope
Grief Counseling Annapolis provides compassionate support for individuals and couples navigating loss. Whether you've lost a loved one, experienced a miscarriage, are facing a terminal diagnosis, or are grieving another significant loss, professional counseling can help you process your pain and find your way forward.
Dr. Teresa Hunt Monan understands that grief affects every aspect of life, including your relationships. Grief impacts everyone differently, one partner may need to talk constantly about their loss while the other processes internally. One may want to maintain routines while the other can't function normally. These differences can create misunderstandings and distance at a time when couples need each other most.
Grief Counseling Annapolis helps individuals work through their loss while also supporting couples who are grieving together. You'll learn to understand your individual grief processes and support each other through this difficult journey, honoring both your own needs and your partner's needs as you navigate loss together.
While grief never fully disappears, it does change over time. Grief Counseling Annapolis helps you find meaning after loss, rebuild your life while honoring what you've lost, and discover hope for the future. Healing doesn't mean forgetting, it means learning to carry your loss while still embracing life and connection.
Whether you're seeking couples counseling, relationship counseling, marriage counseling, or grief counseling in Annapolis, taking the first step is often the hardest part. You don't need to face these challenges alone. Contact Annapolis Relationship Therapy today to schedule your first session with Dr. Teresa Hunt Monan. With 38 years of experience and a compassionate, evidence-based approach, she can help you rebuild connection, restore hope, and create the relationship you deserve.
Adult ADHD/ADD Neurocognitive Psychotherapy: The neurocognitive approach to ADHD/ADD helps clients to understand and accept their brain style. I strive to help them understand their strengths and weaknesses as they go through their daily lives, and focus on their strengths. We will work together to help you develop more "ADD-friendly" lives through learning compensatory strategies for the problem areas and overall management/organizational skills. And most importantly, I will help you celebrate your own unique ADD related “gifts”, and your unique essence.
Self Esteem and Self Compassion Issues: I truly believe that when one learns to deeply and completely love and accept oneself, everything in life gets better. Jack Kornfield said “compassion that does not include the self is incomplete.” In this area, I help my clients become aware of the voice(s) in their head, the conversation, and the sort of company they keep with themselves every day. These unkind, critical voices are most often the internalized voices of negative messages from the past. Through reading, journaling, and becoming more aware, my clients learn to develop a kinder supportive voice that helps them reach for new things and improve their feelings about themselves. They develop a strong sense of “being with “themselves. This is such an important focus for many people in individual work, and can transform a life. A positive, affirming voice that lives within affects for the better, one’s mood, sense of hope, aspirations, and beliefs about what can be accomplished. The sky is the limit.
Coping with Anxiety and Depression: With all the latest research on the brain and its effect on mood, we now know so much more than ever before how to help individuals struggling with low mood or anxiety. I help my clients with this issue through teaching mindfulness and meditation techniques, as well as EFT, Emotional Freedom Techniques commonly known as "Tapping", (See Nick Ortner's Book "The Tapping Solution".) Difficulties are also addressed through the cognitive behavioral technique of looking at the impact of one's thoughts on mood and helping clients shift their thoughts to more helpful ones. For anxiety we focus on multiple breathing techniques, and or neurofeedback/biofeedback practices such as Heart Math which affect the brain physiology directly. Exercise, reaching out for social support, medication if necessary, and developing self-compassion are all helpful additions in this area. Finally, learning with self-compassion to face one’s feelings, rather than resist them, creates a space for a transformative shift. It is a common maxim of therapy that “If you can feel it, you can heal it”.
For Singles: Individual Relationship Therapy focused on finding and sustaining love, dealing with commitment conflicts, or love addiction: I have a special interest is working with Individuals who have been unsuccessful in love, with multiple disappointments in this area in their lives. Therapy strives to help them understand their covert patterns and barriers to love, and how these disappointments repeat. For some, there is an unconscious deep fear of commitment, for others it is more conscious. By understanding and facing their fears, and how they “show up” in relationships, they are often able to shift these patterns, to find and sustain a rewarding Love Relationship. Using concepts from Object Relations Theory, Imago, EFT, and also Katherine Woodward Thomas's "Calling in the One" program, I assist clients in understanding and releasing their internal barriers to love. Work aims at helping them make cognitive and behavioral shifts to usher in a new and deeply satisfying love experience that can be nurtured and sustained. Along these lines, I am certified to offer an Imago Workshop for Individuals called "Keeping the Love You find". This Workshop is designed to help individuals understand their problematic patterns with romantic love and make shifts that will allow for a different outcome. I currently do this in a private format.
Grief Counseling Annapolis: Rebuilding Hope
Grief Counseling Annapolis provides compassionate support for individuals and couples navigating loss. Whether you've lost a loved one, experienced a miscarriage, are facing a terminal diagnosis, or are grieving another significant loss, professional counseling can help you process your pain and find your way forward.
Dr. Teresa Hunt Monan understands that grief affects every aspect of life, including your relationships. Grief impacts everyone differently, one partner may need to talk constantly about their loss while the other processes internally. One may want to maintain routines while the other can't function normally. These differences can create misunderstandings and distance at a time when couples need each other most.
Grief Counseling Annapolis helps individuals work through their loss while also supporting couples who are grieving together. You'll learn to understand your individual grief processes and support each other through this difficult journey, honoring both your own needs and your partner's needs as you navigate loss together.
While grief never fully disappears, it does change over time. Grief Counseling Annapolis helps you find meaning after loss, rebuild your life while honoring what you've lost, and discover hope for the future. Healing doesn't mean forgetting, it means learning to carry your loss while still embracing life and connection.
Whether you're seeking couples counseling, relationship counseling, marriage counseling, or grief counseling in Annapolis, taking the first step is often the hardest part. You don't need to face these challenges alone. Contact Annapolis Relationship Therapy today to schedule your first session with Dr. Teresa Hunt Monan. With 38 years of experience and a compassionate, evidence-based approach, she can help you rebuild connection, restore hope, and create the relationship you deserve.
FAQ's
1. Do I need to be in a relationship to benefit from Individual Relationship Therapy?
No! This therapy helps whether you're single, dating, in a relationship, or recovering from a breakup. You'll understand your relationship patterns, attachment style, and how past experiences shape your connections-preparing you for healthier relationships.
2. Can Individual Relationship Therapy help if my partner won't come to couples therapy?
Yes. Working on your own patterns, emotional regulation, and communication skills can shift your relationship dynamics. When one partner changes, it often positively influences the relationship and may encourage the other partner to join therapy later.
3. What issues can Individual Relationship Therapy address?
Dr. Monan helps with relationship issues, life transitions, family conflicts, finding true love, self-esteem, anxiety, depression, emotional regulation, grief and loss, childhood trauma, Adult ADHD/ADD, self-defeating patterns, and more. Treatment is tailored to your unique needs.
