Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Brookhaven, NY.

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.

Anxiety and stress are common problems that bring folks into our care. We take a whole person talk therapy approach to explore triggers. We partner with medical and psych providers to explore medical model fixes. We enhance creativity through creative arts interventions targeted at stress reduction and anxiety relief. Further we provide in home "serene spaces" evaluations/ organization/coaching to explore ways to help your home environment from triggering your stress and anxiety.

If you are up at 3am thinking about the “what if’s”, you are in the right place. I believe in providing a safe, nonjudgmental space and exploring to address and manage stress and anxiety. Some of these strategies are for crisis moments: grounding techniques like breathing, tapping, mental exercises; and some of these strategies are preventative: daily expression making, challenging negative thought patterns, wellness planning, self-care. Session can be used to talk through stressors and anxiety triggers; it can be used to practice the above strategies (and more); it can be used to build your understanding of stress and anxiety; creatively release stress and anxiety with art.

The modern world we live in is full of amazing technological advancements and organizational wonders, but it is also more complex and demanding than ever before. The myriad competing demands of our lives, how busy we are, the continual pressure to do and be more creates enormous stress for all of us. This stress can escalate into anxiety and the added strain of these issues easily begins to short-circuit our ability to function at our best, to feel good, to maintain relationships and responsibilities. I can help you understand the internal and external forces creating these negative feelings, and together we can find strategies for minimizing stress and anxiety so you can feel better.

Most of us experience anxiety and/or stress at some point. However, when it persists and reaches a heightened level of intensity, therapy may be needed and can have a powerful impact on reducing these symptoms. Talk therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy are two approaches shown to have success in treating anxiety. Talk therapy allows for my clients to open up and unburden themselves from the weight of what they may be carrying and validating their experience and emotions. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps address and shift any unhealthy thinking or behaviors associated with the anxiety. This can significantly improve ones ability to manage their anxiety.

Our therapist's teach our clients a variety of relaxation techniques and stress management techniques in order for our clients to feel empowered by their ability to manage stress and anxiety. Some of the techniques utilized are guided imagery, diaphragmatic breathing, and progressive relaxation technique. We will also examine how their thoughts influence your anxiety level and identify any distorted thought patterns in order to correct them.

Approaching anxiety and stress looks different for everyone, but I would work with each person to see what resources the person has to help cope with these feelings so far, and working to provide more resources to them as well. Using Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is helpful to find ways of using mindfulness, discussing emotion regulation, increasing frustration tolerance and more. I can provide the structure of DBT as well as being able to combine Art Therapy so that my clients are able to express themselves as well when discussing these topics.