Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Olympia Heights, FL.

Do you suffer from anxiety, panic or stress? Some of your symptoms might be emotional: depressed, weepy or edgy and short tempered. Physical: neck pain,shoulder, back, TMJ, constant headaches or stomach aches. What about Behavioral Symptoms; over eating, drinking, shopping, doing drugs, gambling or video addiction? Cognitions ( thoughts); feeling overwhelmed, confused, not able to make decisions, no mind clarity, lost and helpless at times.We will help you learn to stop worrying and deal with your stressors in a healthy way so you can start living again.

Do you find yourself struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma, or feeling overwhelmed? Are you finding it hard to deal with the emotional aftermath of a traumatic event? Do you have trouble sleeping or find yourself sleeping too much, affecting your personal and professional life? If you answered yes to any of these questions, therapy can provide you with the tools to comprehend what you're going through, develop coping mechanisms, regulate your emotions, and decrease the emotional effects of a traumatic experience.

Many times anxiety comes out of nowhere and can make you feel paralyzed. No matter how much you try to stop it or apply logic it just doesn't help. That's because it's an emotional reaction and emotion always trumps logic. My approach of examining the root of your anxiety along with techniques to help sooth and calm you physiologically have helped many of my clients.

Anxiety and stress are some of the most common concerns that clients bring to me in session. The constant worry of how to get everything done, while navigating a pandemic, in an ever-changing world can seem overwhelming at times. You are not alone. Whether you are looking for help with your daily challenges or feel like stress and anxiety are impacting your relationships, I can help. I look forward to working with you on ways to calm your mind and experience the peace you are looking for.

Anxiety and stress affect you both mentally and physically. Worried about worrying, can not sleep, have the nightmares and flashbacks of Post traumatic Stress Disorder? Maybe you have that "elephant of worry" sitting on your chest just waiting for that panic attack to emerge. I have helped hundreds of patients manage their stress and anxiety achieve quiet peace of mind permanently. We use NeurOptimal Nofeedback to train the brain to be more flexible and resilient in a comfortable and restful atmosphere. As your brain becomes trained, the feelings of stress and anxiety just drop away. Your brain functions more optimally permitting feeling relaxed and peaceful so you can competently function

Are you nervous a lot of the time? Isn’t it uncomfortable? And it doesn’t help to just be told to ‘calm down’. I am a highly trained clinical psychologist with years of both academic and clinical experience. I truly empathize with your emotional state(s) and can assist in improving your overall quality of life. How might this look? First, when you and I meet, you get support and time to just chat. This in itself can begin to lessen one’s stress. Together we can locate exactly what is making you anxious, and why. And then you and I create ways of decreasing your nervousness, and increasing your comfort level! Life can start to feel better when one’s anxiety is properly attended to.

Art focuses on clients to re-encounter the positive skills they have already known and used, but that life problems made them temporarily forget. This way, clients rely on their own strengths and initiatives for their lives. Treatment will also provide opportunities to learn and apply new skills that in time will become part of the clients' lives.Tool Box for Life and Relational Skills When clients graduate from treatment, they take with them a box full of "tools", such as effective anger management techniques, avoiding confrontations that lead to negative expressions of anger, resolving conflict peacefully and quietly, making the right decisions in every aspect of life, and perseverance to alw....

Do you worry a lot and find your worried thoughts difficult to control? Do you often get heightened anxiety reactions (panic attacks) that can paralyze? You may have a type of anxiety disorder that sometimes runs in families. If your symptoms are ongoing, lasting more than a couple of weeks, or seem to be part of your everyday life, I can help. Being stressed is not something to be taken lightly. Suffering from its effects over time can lead to any number of serious physical conditions including: heart disease, stomach and digestive problems, headaches, depression, fatigue and muscle aches. I offer safe, effective treatment that will help you control or eliminate your stress and anxiety.

We hold our anxiety and stress in our body. We feel tension, gut problems, hot flashes, disrupted sleep and more. I work with anxiety and stress by helping individuals learn and develop tools to re-regulate their nervous system. When we have a coherent and fluid nervous system, we can do difficult things without feeling paralyzed by overwhelming fear.

Coping with excessive worry, nervousness, or stress; intense discomfort in social settings (social anxiety); sudden and intense feelings of panic (panic disorder). Providing support and promoting healing of hopelessness, low motivation and energy, sadness, irritability, sleep disturbance, and loss of interest and pleasure in life. I'll help guide you in the process of regaining control over your anxiety & stress and equip you with effective coping skills so you can take back your life!

Working with clients who are experiencing anxiety and stress is a passion and specialty of mine. I am unique in my approach because I come from both a psychological background, but also from a background of many years studying and teaching yoga and meditation, which is the science of developing personal peace. I help clients to develop ways to decrease stress and anxiety without the use of medication by utilizing breathing techniques and mindfulness practices. I also use a cognitive behavioral approach that helps to recognize negative irrational thoughts while replacing these thoughts with more positive and realistic thoughts. I offer individual therapy and regular group therapy.

Constant worrying and feeling stressed out does not have to be your normal! Anxiety tells us that we need to avoid, avoid, avoid. We think if we avoid the things we fear, then the anxiety will go away but that's actually how we inadvertently make our anxiety worse. Through CBT and ERP, you will learn the tools to face your anxiety and increase your tolerance for the feelings that come along with it. By facing your anxiety, you can make choices that lead to doing the things you love most. In therapy, you'll also learn coping skills and be able to express your worries in a supportive space.

At Family Counseling we help patients achieve freedom from anxiety (phobias, fear of flying, panic and agoraphobia) may be facilitated by encouraging the examination of unsettled and profoundly ingrained conflicts, often of an unconscious nature that are often displace onto “safer” objects or sitatuations, by questioning the veracity and effectiveness of cognitive distortions that emanate from these conflicts, and by empowering the person to modify behaviors that perpetuate the disorders. We also use EMDR as a powerful tool to reprocess memories and experiences that can be attached to disturbing feelings and negative and limiting views of self and others.