Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Ripon, CA.

If Anxiety and stress is keeping you from living the life you want please call today for a free consultation. My approach to treating anxiety and stress involves collaborating with the client, providing a safe and comfortable environment, and being supportive throughout the process. There are a number of benefits to seeking support: improving your health and well-being, improving both current and future relationship, learning to handle life problems both now and in the future. Therapy can help you provide with skills, strategies and techniques to deal with anxiety and stress today and in the future.

Anxiety, stress and panic often stem from past trauma. Most people don't realize how past trauma can effect their present coping skills. Present economic times bring so much stress and anxiety to people. Stress can cause many health issues as a direct result. I offer stress management to my client with CBT and the state of the art treatment on EMDR. I am trained and EMDRIA certified clinician.

I begin by creating a symptom profile of your anxiety and look for a baseline so that we can work together to really have a great treatment plan. By using mindfulness techniques with DBT we can create ways to calm the mind and the adrenogenic responses often seen in anxiety clients. By learning how to identify stressors and triggers, you can begin the process to cope better and reduce the severity of an anxiety response. I often include de-sensitization training for many cases.

With the current times, stress and anxiety may be heightened and affecting various aspects of your life such as: work, relationships, sleep, and every day responsibilities. Anxiety can be overwhelming but it can be treated and you will get better. I will help you learn tools to manage and decrease your anxiety by developing an awareness of your triggers.

Anxiety can arise from several places - one is the mind - people can think & imagine scenarios in their minds that create anxiety, when their thoughts and imagination may not even be true. Anxiety is also common in people who did not have a safe & secure experience with caregivers as they were growing up. The brain ends up being wired in a way that reproduces anxiety. Fortunately, due to new research in the field of neuropsychology & neuroplasticity, this can be changed!

If you suffer from anxiety and stress then you are probably anxious about whether or not therapy will help you. My approach to anxiety is a cgnitive behavioral one which means that you will learn how to manage your anxiety, when appropriate, by behavioral techniques such as relaxation, deep breathing, visiualization, and refocusing. Cognitive techniques include looking at the triggers of anxiety, recognizing the automatic negative responses of our thinking, and learning positive, truthful self talk. Occasionally, trying to stop the anxiety can make one more anxious about not stopping it. Client will learn that at these times it may be best to "ride it out".

I begin by understanding how you experience anxiety/stress because how you experience them is unique for you. Then we begin to increase your tolerance for how you experience anxious/stressful thoughts, feelings, memories, and/or situations. This is necessary so the anxiety/stress stops being an overwhelming experience that interferes and gets in the way of your life. It's crucial to be able to become more comfortable when you experience anxiety/stress because they're a part life. The problem is the distressing and limiting to debilitating effect they have on you. As you learn to be able to do this, you will begin to experience more peacefulness, calm, hope, self-confidence and self-esteem.