Individual Counseling at NorthShore

Individual counseling involves assessing patients’ thinking and behaviors in order to educate and provide solution-focused interventions. There is a heavy reliance on motivational interviewing and stages of change when providing these interventions. These services have been found to decrease the numbers of stress-related medical care issues and help provide patients with better coping skills for dealing with the problems they are facing, whether the behavioral health care is accompanied by treatment with medications or not.