Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Bangor, PA.

I specialize in helping clients understand the effect of stress on their minds and bodies, and how the nervous system operates in anxiety disorders. I like to say that you can't "logic" your way out of anxiety! While cognitive therapy helps you change negative thoughts to more positive ones, I've come to understand the importance of healing your brain and nervous system as well. Meaningful, lasting change comes from treating anxiety holistically. I look forward to helping you understand how and why your body reacts with anxiety, and how to achieve greater peace and calm.

While most treatment approaches for anxiety and stress are effective on the surface, they don’t treat the real problem. Mantras, deep breathing, and rational dialogues about your fear being irrational rarely work---for most people don’t 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@kevinfleminphd.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.

Anxiety is among the most common topics causing individuals to seek therapy. If you are experiencing anxiety, that is your minds way of tell you something in your life needs to change. Therapy can provide you with a safe space to determine what that problem is. Sometimes circumstances or toxic relationships in our lives cause us to feel anxious. Sometimes it is an inaccurate perspective. Regardless of the causes, therapy can help you toward a calmer, more peaceful existence.

Many of our clients have stress in their lives. Stressors can include parent- child conflicts, marital conflict, relationships, or stress caused by an event in their lives. Some of these may include divorce, abuse, significant loss or change. We believe that talk therapy can be very effective in the treatment of anxiety and stress. Our goal as therapists is to help clients find ways to alleviate or minimalize stress and anxiety, and to help them achieve positive mental health.

It can be very difficult to admit, as a Christian that we are suffering from anxiety and stress. That is where all change begins. Admitting that something is wrong. Sometimes we turn to a unhealthy coping mechanisms that eventually make matters worse. Things like alcohol, food or even endless hours in front of the television or phone. Together we can take steps to identify the issues and care for you spirit, soul and body.

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.

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.