Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Houston, TX.

It is hard to make it through the teen and adult years without experiencing anxiety and stress at some point. People sometimes lose themselves in parenthood, marriages, school, and/or work. My goal is to provide a safe place for emotional expression while at the same time providing tools to allow a person to cope with difficult life's most difficult experiences.

Does this sound like you? Nervous; feelings of dread; insomnia; digestive problems and/or difficulty focusing? These are all symptoms of stress and anxiety. I partner with my clients to get to the root cause of these feelings. What are your automatic thoughts in triggering situations? What are your core beliefs about how the world works? How do you talk to yourself? Let's team up and find the reasons behind your symptoms so that you can feel better.

Anxiety is a normal part of life. Sometimes, however, anxiety or stress can become overwhelming and take control of your life. Anxiety can affect your thoughts, behaviors, feelings, and even physical sensations. We utilize a cognitive-behavioral approach to help you manage anxiety symptoms, change unproductive thought patterns, identify triggers, express your deeper feelings and needs, and feel more calm and relaxed.

Anxiety can get in the way of every day life. Anything from not being able to advance at work, to social anxiety keeping you from moving forward, to significant traumatic experiences (PTSD). Anxiety is best treated utilizing a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) approach. We will work with you on systematic ways to reduce and manage your anxiety. Trauma is a specialty of ours. When your body experiences trauma it keeps your body in "fight or flight." We know what you went through was extremely scary and rocked your entire sense of self and sense of the world. We utilize CBT tools and techniques, grounding, breathing, reducing negative thoughts as well as psychodynamic approaches.

You can learn to be less anxious in one session and can learn tools you can use for the rest of your life to reduce your level of anxiety. You can learn to change your self-talk and also learn deep muscle relaxation. Stress is normal and natural, but you can learn techniques of how to minimize stress and how to handle it better. You can control your stress instead of allowing your stress to control you.

Unrecognized fears, such as loss and/or failure sometimes feed one's anxiety and stress. Other times anxiety and stress might be read as a need for change. Often times having the space and freedom to vent relieves this pressure but when talking is not enough we will look at the width of your anxiety threshold and explore ways of pushing against the confining walls that seem to keep you trapped in this space.

I work with clients facing overwhelming stress and anxiety by utilizing various modalities tailored specifically for them, I employ a holistic approach and believe through mindfulness, meditation, cognitive behavioral therapy, narrative therapy, and emotionally focused therapy that clients feel a sense of relief and calm by being able to take stock of their thoughts, feelings and behaviors and make sense of what the real issues are and by devising a plan to tackle them head-on.

Anxiety and Stress are parts of life, managing them can be learned. Real Talk Therapy will offer a number of strategies, behavioral skills, coping mechanisms to assist in blocking intrusive thoughts, reducing stress, resolving anxiety provoking circumstances. A person functioning depends upon being able to reduce as much stress and anxiety as possible.

If worries plague you I would be happy to help you learn new ways to face and deal with them. Stress can be relieved in many ways, and I would be pleased to help you figure out which ways will work best for you. I will help you explore how you may have become anxious and stressed and learn useful coping mechanisms for now and ways of living that will reduce your anxiety and stress in the future.

Anxiety & Stress can leave you feeling overwhelmed, drained and unmotivated. I can help you look at your anxiety & stress in a whole new way. As we work with root causes of anxiety and learn to utilize anxious symptoms to our benefit, our stress can go down. As a therapist that has suffered from anxiety, I can relate and help you navigate, manage and overcome your anxiety.

We all experience anxiety at times. Anxiety is a way our body tells us that something is wrong. By using tried and true techniques to help you become more aware of what is occurring in your body, mind and emotional self, we help you to identify where you feel the anxiety in your body, how you feel it emotionally and the thoughts you experience when anxiety occurs. You can make meaningful changes in your life by learning how to slow these thoughts down while we work together to unravel the root causes of your stress and anxiety. We can help you to learn relaxation techniques and in some cases we collaborate with your Dr. to help you manage symptoms while working towards long term solutions.

If you’re feeling stressed out, overwhelmed, or stuck, I’m your girl. Can you imagine what life could be like without constantly worrying and putting this much pressure on yourself? I specialize in helping over-achieving adults and older teens (high school age and up) find balance and work through struggles with anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and body image issues. I also provide Christian counseling upon request. If you’re ready for some relief, call me at 281-785-2273 or email me at kelley.dawson.counseling@gmail.com and we can chat about what you’re going through and how I can help!

Seems like stress is everywhere these days - at home, at work, in our relationships. While we laugh about how stressed out everyone is, the facts are that stress can really have a negative impact on your body. Don't wait until you are feeling overwhelmed and burned out. Working together, we can reduce your stress and anxiety with a buffet of easy-to-use techniques. It really does help to talk about what stresses you out. And it helps to have some things to do when you are in the car, waiting in line, about to meet with your boss, or upset about a relationship. It's a good time to take care of your mind and body - right now!