Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Elkridge, MD.

Let's face it. Life can be overwhelming and stressful at times. When your normal coping is no longer effective, that stress and anxiety can take over. The clinicians at GBCC are exemplarly and helping with anxiety. Our clinicians specialize in relaxation techniques that can help reduce overall stress and anxiety to help you get on to better living.

Time of Need Counseling offers Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients who suffer from unhealthy anxiety. Anxiety effects mind and body. It can impact a person’s ability to function at work, school, in public places, and in social setting. Our counselors can assist you to identify ways to find relief from worry, social anxiety, phobias, and debilitating fear.

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'.

From time to time most of us will experience stress and anxiety. From a neuro-biological perspective, some of us are more prone to anxiety when we feel threatened or defensive. We together can use many strategies to lower the level of anxiety and work through the stress. Some of them include meditation and deep breathing, visualizing and 'anchoring' times you felt competent and have gotten though a stressful event successfully, writing journal of your experiences, using EMDR to visualize experiences in a different way changing your beliefs to positive ones.

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.

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.

A lot of people experience anxiety when they feel stressed out. In fact, stress and anxiety go hand by hand. Hence, learning to deal with stress can also help you to manage anxiety in a better way. Anxiety is not really a bad thing as anxiety can motivate us to do things better, but anxiety can become a problem when it gets too much. Hence, how to keep “good” anxiety and get rid of “bad anxiety” and this is something that we can work on together.

Anxiety and stress stem from the perception that you are not up to whatever challenges life may present. I help people to take a closer look at the ways in which they think that they do not have the resources they need to meet life's challenges. Sometimes this involves finding strengths and resources inside yourself that you did not realize you had. Sometimes is involves having the courage to look for such strength inside yourself and to ask others (such as fellow members of a therapy group) to help you.

Are you a worrier or are you often nervous? Do you have panic attacks? I can help you feel calmer and more peaceful. I know that worry can be disabling in your life, but with help you can live free of worry. I use cognitive therapy as well as guided imagery to help you feel more grounded and living in the moment. I also use hypnosis which can help uncover your strengths.

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 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

Through a mind, body, and spirit approach, you will learn how to relax and manage stress and anxiety. In this busy world, it's easy to get stressed out. Often times we over identify with our jobs, our responsibilities, our things, our bodies, and even our own philosophies. "Over identifying" leads to self criticism and or stressful living! Each session will provide you relief, and learn strategies to take charge of your body and mind, so you can feel at ease while getting your "todo"list complete. My expertise in breathwork, cognitive restructuring, hypnosis, yoga and behavior modification will help you relax.

There is normal stress and anxiety and then there are levels which are far beyond what you imagine to be on that range. We live high-stress and fast-paced lives and it is understandable why we sometimes feel overwhelmed and highly stressed out. There is help available to assist you in calming your nerves and finding productive and safe methods for dealing with the many painful stressors around us.