Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in East Point, GA.

Do you feel stuck, but the harder you try to move forward the more overwhelmed you feel? Do you want to ask for help but you don't know how? Bridgette understands life can become difficult and asking for help can be hard so she's committed to providing her clients a safe place & empathic ear for peace & clarity to be regained. Bridgette practices "Solution Focused Brief Therapy." This practical and user friendly approach allows clients to deal with immediate problems providing instant relief and renewed hope. Then, Bridgette helps her clients address long term, underlying problems that require healing & resolution. Together, we will identify your therapy goals & work toward lasting change.

No safer place. No better time. Stress and anxiety rob you of joy. The root issue is really worry and worry is a thinking process, not an emotional one. I can help you break the ingrained patterns of thinking that are leading to your anxiety, and teach you new patterns that will result in a new worldview, giving you the necessary tools to prevent the normal stressors of life from becoming sources of anxiety. There is a way to live free from the grip of anxiety, and I can help you discover what will work for you.

Life can often seem stressful and out of control. With a world that is moving so fast it's easy to fall behind and feel like you can't catch up. Stress and anxiety can cause many problems in your personal, professional, and relational life. Overcoming these problems can be hard to do alone. In my office we will review your past to uncover the root of the things that cause you anxiety and you will be equipped with tools that can help you manage your stress and anxiety in the future.

Life can get overwhelming. I help clients tap into their own inner sense of wisdom and groundedness so they can navigate difficulties with greater confidence, clarity, curiosity, and creativity. I enjoy collaborating with clients to increase their resilience to stress and become better able to meet the challenges that come their way. Sometimes stress and anxiety is related to past trauma. In these cases, I use a combination of therapies including somatic practices and EMDR to reprocess limiting beliefs and traumatic memories.

As a therapist, I know that positive thinking alone and relaxation breathing alone will not resolve your anxiety. I have helped clients with generalized anxiety, social anxiety, presentation anxiety, interview anxiety, and anxiety related to accidents or traumatic events. "Kalpana helped me tremendously to get through a difficult time and helped me see how all the anxiety I have experienced most of my life was linked to early unresolved childhood trauma. My anxiety is still way down and not all-consuming the way it used to be. The therapy I did with Kalpana has helped me more than any other therapy I've done in my whole life. I finally feel "unstuck" and able to move forward".

Generalized Anxiety Disorder is a particularly difficult condition to cope with, since people with this disorder experience a sense of severe anxiety almost all the time. At Options we know how confusing your world can seem when you have GAD and are overwhelmed by anxiety all the time. However, you are more than just the symptoms of your disorder. At Options, we strive to focus on your entire person, not just the symptoms you are experiencing.

Stress and anxiety are like a snowball that gets bigger and more daunting with each revolution and addition of new snow. Stress and anxiety are rooted in our core beliefs and manifest in irrational thinking patterns. I can help by teaching symptom coping skills, challenging and changing core beliefs and identifying and resolving irrational thinking patterns.

If your anxiety or stress is related to your work, it's worth your time to evaluate your career plan with the help of a Career Counselor. Being unhappy with the type of work you do can spill over into other areas of your life. Part of my working with clients on career issues involves helping to better deal with stress, and overcome anxiety. Career Counseling can help you to work through issues at your current job to make things run more smoothly, or you might determine if you would be happier with a new job, or even a new career. Job searching can also bring up anxiety and stress, and working together we can evaluate your job seach plan and find additional resources to ease the transition.

Anxiety and Stress usually have both physical and mental symptoms. Physical symptoms like sweating, nausea, difficulty breathing, tense muscles, and rapid heart rate. And mental symptoms like racing thoughts, easily getting distracted, or not being able to turn your mind off. I can help you become aware of your reaction to anxiety and stress, both physically and mentally, and develop coping strategies to manage these symptoms so you can feel relief. I can teach you relaxation strategies and mindful exercises. I can help you examine your thinking patterns in an effort to reframe and reprogram them, as a lot of anxiety is caused by the way we think about things.

The world we live can create many anxiety-provoking and stressful situations in our lives. We, at The Fort Christian Psychiatric Center, understand. As a psychiatrist I am trained in various psychotherapy modules, so I am able to treat various anxiety and stress-related disorders in my practice. My approach uses a Biblical foundation and a Christian framework. The therapy module that I use depends on the type of anxiety or stress that I'm treating, as well as the person I'm helping.

Anxiety and worry seem to take up all of your energy. Your thoughts seem to spiral into the worst case scenario in spite of your best efforts. It seems to ramp up out of nowhere. Sometimes you don't notice how anxious you are until someone else mentions it. Let me help. As part of our work together, we'll look at how the past has affected your present. We'll work to identify more effective coping skills and helpful ways to manage your anxiety.

Problems with anxiety can manifest in many ways. Panic attacks, obsessive compulsive disorders, avoiding certain situations or places, and how we interact with others. Getting to the core of the anxiety with EMDR can help clients process the event that has created the anxiety desensitizing its triggers to help the client move past the traumatic event. Children can also experience worry and anxiety. These may include things such as problems with friends, problems in school, worry about the future or their parent’s relationship. Getting help is the first step to making change.

When working on anxiety and stress with me, you will learn about how the brain works when it responds with anxiety or fear. You will learn techniques for calming this anxiety response down so that you can live life more fully and more relaxed again. You will learn methods of self-care to help you manage every day stress and major stressful events.