Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Dakota Ridge, CO.

Anxiety is the body’s alarm system working overtime. My approach blends mindfulness and somatic regulation to help your nervous system discern real threat from old conditioning. Instead of managing symptoms, we teach your body how to stand down. As you learn to notice without bracing, your body recalibrates. Over time, anxiety becomes less of an enemy and more of a message that no longer needs to shout. The goal isn’t to eliminate anxiety, but rather to build a steadier baseline where calm feels safe again.

True Happiness and Stability Stems from the Quality of our Significant Relationships! I provide therapy for children, adolescents, individuals, elders, couples, and families. I focus on people's strengths and possibilities while addressing their real life difficulties. I provide a wide variety of evidence-based treatment approaches. Which means that all the therapy that I implement is highly researched and therefore, proven to work, if followed correctly. I believe in a holistic approach to the therapeutic process that incorporates biological, psychological, social, and spiritual dimensions empowering a person or family towards mastering life to its fullest.

Diamond Counseling provides anxiety therapy for men, women, teens and children. You know it is time to see a therapist when your social life, school activities, job functioning, self-esteem or relationships are suffering as a result of anxiety. I provide office hours to fit your busy schedule; Monday through Thursday; daytime and evenings and Saturday mornings. My office is conveniently located at Hampden and Wadsworth.

Lao Tzu said, "If you're anxious, it's because you're living in the future. If you're at peace, it's because you're living in the present." Often anxiety looks like leaving the present moment and projecting into the future, trying to think 10 steps ahead about things that haven't happened yet. This future thinking leads to stress in the present. I teach clients how to tune into their emotions (including anxiety), their bodies (as an anchor to the present moment) and move through anxiety as it arises using their breath. Anxiety and stress don't have to run your life. I'm here to support you in regulating your anxiety and stress by staying with yourself in the present moment.

We can use mindfulness techniques to work with difficult emotions or a lack of emotions day to day. Exercise, diet, sleep and many daily activities can be utilized to help with difficult times. Self care is an exploration. I support the use of medications when needed depending on what you want to do. I take an individualized approach so the process depends on how you want to approach it and what your needs are.

If you are suffering with anxiety or constant stress in your life, then your plate is already full. If you decide to commit some time to attending therapy, I will help you to understand what is causing your stress and/or anxiety so that you can do something different. I will provide a safe, calm environment where you can learn how to relax and take care of yourself before you reach your capacity.

While most treatment approaches for anxiety and stress are effective on the surface, they dont treat the real problem. Mantras, deep breathing, and rational dialogues about your fear being irrational rarely work---for most people dont believe it or you!. Imagine if you can trick the brain into changing without you telling your conscious mind that you are changing it? Problem with anxiety and stress is that the brain in this state knows you want to change it and it resists. Contact Kevin@kevinflemingphd.com for the ultimate stress and anxiety solution that will literally change your brain's autonomic nervous system patterns while you sit on your butt. 877-606-6161

I believe that there are certain levels of Anxiety and Stress that can be a positive influence for each of us. It is when Anxiety and Stress start to negatively impact our lives that we need to begin the work to discover how we can implement change. My goal as a therapist is to help you explore where the Anxiety and Stress are coming from and to help you make educated choices about how you want to transform.

I use talk therapy, CBT, and EMDR to approach the treatment process for clients suffering from anxiety and stress. With anxiety, EMDR can prove to be key because it allows the brain to search the root causes of a person's anxiety and find healing at a base level. This is much more affective than simply treating symptoms of anxiety. Once the root cause is discovered, relief will naturally occur. However, it is also important to address the present symptoms and help clients make changes in their lives to alleviate anxiety and develop healthy coping skills.

I will help you address anxiety and stress by taking small, manageable steps that will eventually lead to big changes. I take a gentle cognitive-behavioral approach to helping clients gradually overcome anxiety. I will help you identify beliefs that keep you stuck, and challenge thoughts that perpetuate these unhelpful ideas. I will share with you how avoidance keeps us stuck by tricking our brain and validating that this is how we are kept safe. With support, we will change this cycle by developing corrective experiences that promote new beliefs and ways of being.

Anxiety and stress are such common experiences especially in our busy and demanding culture. Learning to cope and manage stress and anxiety are important life-skills; I can give you tools and techniques to do this. However working on the core issues is valuable or these tools will end up being like a bandaid just covering up the real problem. Together we can work on the core issues driving your anxiety and stress in order to experience lasting relief.

How much is your anxiety costing you? Individuals who suffer from anxiety and chronic stress are less productive at work and are more likely to call in sick. They are 3-5 times more likely to go to the doctor as anxiety often feels like physical illness. Their relationships with family and friends suffer or are sometimes cut off completely. Counseling is the single most effective treatment for anxiety and stress, and the benefits begin immediately. Call today to get started: (970) 227-2770.

When working with me on issues of stress or anxiety, we first start with teaching and building resources to manage the stress and anxiety. After certain skill and techniques are established we can move into deeper layers of processing the roots of the stress and anxiety. Through a combination of talk therapy and emotional regulation techniques we can start to see a decrease in managing anxiety symptoms so you can experience more freedom in your life.