Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Carmel, IN.

Everyone feels anxiety at some point in their lives but when it starts to interfere with your life, counseling can help. Although anxiety can feel debilitating, it is treatable. People with anxiety don’t always share the same symptoms, they vary from person to person. Therapy will help you to reclaim your life and function in a chronically stressful world.

I assist in helping clients with anxiety and stress move “from defensiveness and rigidity” to be more open to their experience, more able to engage with strong emotions, and create a coherent meaningful narrative about themselves and their relationships. Clients learn to trust their own experience, accept their own feelings, and learn that they can be themselves in relation to one another. They are confirmed in their existence as worthwhile people, which helps reduce anxiety and stress.

Life comes with a certain amount of stress and anxiety. But when stress and anxiety begin to keep you from living the full and relationally fulfilling life you want and deserve, it may be time to rethink your current strategies and ways of coping. Helping people find more effective and productive ways of regulating their emotional and relational self is often a key factor in helping them reduce their stress and anxiety. Take the first step in living a less stressful and less anxious life by scheduling your evaluation at Chrysalis Connections, where we create connections one relationship at a time.

My approach to anxiety and stress first involves identifying the source or root causes. Using a solution focused approach we will identify what areas of life can be changed or controlled to reduce the anxiety. We will then identify areas that cannot be changed or controlled and implement coping strategies which may be either cognitive and/or behavioral in nature. I use Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy to address distorted thinking and help develop healthy coping strategies for anxiety, panic attacks and phobias. We will establish collaborative and quantifiable treatment goals in order to track progress and reach agreed upon objectives so that change can be realized.