Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Lakeside, TX.

Are you stressed or anxious? Dr. Minatrea can help you explore the source of your anxiety and learn how to reduce it. You can learn relaxation techniques, including deep breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, and guided imagery exercises. You can also learn how your thoughts about the situation may be keeping you stuck. Often, if you change the way you are thinking about something, it will become less stressful. If you would like to change your thinking and learn to relax, give Dr. Minatrea a call.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ( ACT ) is an evidence-based treatment model. From an ACT perspective, struggling and pain are part of the human experience. The essential components of ACT include stop struggling with unwanted thoughts and feelings, being mindfully aware of the present moment, and committing to a course of action that is consistent with what matters to you in life. ACT helps you stop fighting and/or avoiding your anxiety, develop a new relationship with your thoughts and feelings, and live the life you desire.

Anxiety and stress make it impossible for you to think through immediate issues let alone work through complex interpersonal conflict and trauma. I work with my clients on mindful approaches to anxiety. It's important to utilize skills that help us relax our bodies so that our minds can come back online and work through the actual problems we face.

In a stress filled culture and COVID-19 concerns, individuals are prone to become worried and fretful about issues they have no control over. The results of such worries... an increase of anxiety and stress. At Christ Centered Counseling the goal for clients who battle anxiety and stressed, is a reduction of anxious thoughts and stress related behaviors. To reduce anxiety and stress we teach clients calming, peaceful, scriptural principles. Client will learn biblical strategies for controlling and reducing anxiety and stress.

Everyone experiences anxiety at some point, but for some the anxiety is so frequent or intense that it interferes with their lives or even triggers panic attacks. I use Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to help my clients get a sense of control over their own anxiety. We collaborate to learn skills to reduce the frequency or intensity of the anxious feelings, to tolerate the anxiety when it does occur so they can still function through it, and to practice habits that reduce stress and improve general mental health.

Our culture breeds anxiety & stress! We help our clients develop coping skills and stress management strategies through talk therapy, biofeedback/neurofeedback (BFB/NFB) to reduce and, over time, eliminate anxious worry and paralyzing stress. Many of our clients are uncomfortable with taking medications to control their symptoms (due to side effects or fear of dependency - which is a real possibility) and opt for BFB/NFB to help reduce their stress while they learn new coping skills & strategies. The goal of treatment is not the avoidance of stress, but the reduction in levels of stress experienced by the client & the elimination of behaviors that produce stress & anxiety

Anxiety and stress seems to have a way of creeping into all aspects of our lives. Exploring ways to reduce anxiety and stress may include meditation,positive visualization,creating coping mechanisms which may include progressive relaxation, , creating an anxiety hierarchy where calming strategies are used for less stressful situations then adapted to help calm you during more stressful situations.

Lake Austin Psychotherapy offers Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for anxiety disorder as well as EMDR (Eye Movement, Desensitization and Reprocessing) to accelerate symptom relief from anxiety, stress and panic disorder. Somatic Experiencing is also incorporated to promote mind-body connections and autonomic regulation for heightened nervous system response.

Anxiety is an important survival skill- but it can get out of hand! If you are thinking worst case scenario all the time or feeling nervous about little or everyday things, let me help. We can get your brain back to thinking in a more positive and realistic way. We should be anxious when something is wrong, but if nothing's wrong, you might need to re-learn how to be calm and relaxed. And if something is wrong, I believe you have the tools to handle it! I understand anxiety and where it comes from and I specialize in helping clients re-train their brain to be more balanced and reasonable. Just one session of talking over your anxieties can help immediately!

Anxiety and stress are joy-robbers. A nagging worry to a full-blown panic attack or post-traumatic stress can keep you from experiencing the good things in life. I can teach you anxiety and stress reduction techniques to help you control and/or eliminate these feelings. You don't have to go through life missing a lot of the good stuff. Your Tomorrow Can Feel Better Than Today.

Is your soul anxious, stressed, worried? Do you feel like your ship is about to sink or are you seeing signs that it's already sinkiing? I am here to help. I offer relaxation therapy and can help you regain control over the battle in your mind, emotions and body. Life does not have to be this way any longer! You can take control and don't have to let this control you. I will personalize your therapy and together we will overcome!

Anxiety can manifest in many different forms, and can deeply interfere with quality of life. Anxiety is a natural human emotion that we all experience (for some of us it is situational, and for others, it can be more generalized). When anxiety is experienced in extremes, or feels unmanageable, therapy can be a valuable resource for discovering how to better manage and cope with anxiety.

Do you need help learning to calm yourself when you start to get panicked? Do you find yourself stressed out by everyday events that most people seem to handle without difficulty? Are you anxious about money, relatiionships, your job, your school work, or your life in general? Come talk with me about things you can learn to do, now, that will move you toward approaching life in a calmer, less anxious manner.