Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Chestertown, MD.

Anxiety and stress can seem a constant part of our lives. Anxiety is one of the most common mental health conditions. It can also be treated very effectively. Treatment for anxiety at Perspectives Counseling Center can include cognitive behavioral therapy to address beliefs and behavior that can contribute to anxiety, relaxation and centering exercises to provide immediate relief to the unpleasant sensations associated with anxiety, and learning tools to help you create and maintain a balanced mood.

There are many stressors in life that can overtake us and leave us feeling scared, lonely and confused. Rather then being caught in the grip of anxiety, PTSD/trauma, or other types of anxiety, take the step forward to reach a new level of healing in a compassionate and comfortable environment with a supportive and knowledgeable therapist who can assist. Carol Corcoran, LCMFT, LMFT, EMDRIA Certified EMDR Therapist can help you release the fear that grips you. To learn more go to http://www.creatinghealthyconnections.com/newsite/EMDR.html

To help you manage your stress and anxiety symptoms, we start with understanding the nature and patterns of your symptoms in relation to environmental triggers, traumatic life events, and unhelpful thinking patterns that influence your daily perspective. Using a collaborative alliance, we will look for better ways to manage both your external stressors and internal reactions. A cognitive-behavioral approach offers practical methods to understand how thought patterns influence emotional reactions and behaviors. By redirecting and re-framing your thoughts with alternative thoughts, you can experience a reduction in unpleasant emotions and an increase in personal effectiveness.

There are at least four components to reducing anxiety. The first is to learn self-soothing techniques. the second is to become aware of the thoughts and images which are making you anxious and to deliberately choose other thoughts and images. The third is to discover and face what you are most afraid of. Sometimes, when there has been trauma, this fear is something that has already happened and from which you have not recovered. Often it is something out of your control, a fact of life, like death! We need to make peace with these, accept their reality and make the best of what we have. I have some excellent tools from hypnosis and a field of study called NLP to speed your progress.

Trained in critical incident intervention, we can quickly address the stress induced by fresh trauma. But the other unique feature of our practice is the integration of newly developed devices that have proven track record at reducing anxiety, stress, and PTSD symptoms, treating neurons of the brain in more direct manner than 'talk therapy'. This has brought us very quick and dramatic outcomes of improvement in patients, from the very young to 'senior'.

Learning to manage your anxiety is possible and living a life in which your fears don't cripple you is within your grasp. Anxiety and stress does not need to control your life nor limit the things you want to do. My area of expertise is in helping people understand what anxiety is, where it comes from and how to keep it from ruling their lives. I can help you learn how to face your fears and gain power over them.

Lets face it - modern living can be stressful. We can experience anxiety and stress over many things - work, family, relationships. And sometimes we can feel we are going in circles - tyring our best to manage but ultimately coming back to the place of stress and anxiety - making us feel depleted. It may be hard to believe, but we can work together in therapy to help you break out of this cycle and get you to a place of greater calm and harmony. It takes committment but it is possible.

There are few things worse than being paralyzed by anxiety and/or stress. I have worked with people experiencing symptoms that mirror a heart attack when faced with a panic attack; it is scary, overwhelming and debilitating. The good news is that there are ways to minimize this overpowering discomfort. I have helped my clients learn simple breathing exercises, relaxation techniques and other helpful coping skills to help them function better when facing overwhelming stress. I want to help you to navigate your life so that anxiety and/or stress is not winning and robbing you of joy in your daily activities. Trust me on this one, I have seen the smiles on my clients who have won.