Anxiety & Stress Counseling and Therapy
Stress is your body’s response to environmental demands or pressures. Stress is often experienced through a variety of emotional and physical symptoms, such as tension headaches, digestive problems, or a general lack of a sense of well-being or balance in life.
Anxiety is usually related to fear or apprehension, and is usually the result of circumstances that we feel are out of our control. Situations in life that are outside of our control can cause us to internalize the loss of control and experience anxiety, panic attacks, or the need to maintain excessive order and control in other areas of life.
Depression Counseling and Therpay
Depression affects some 15 million Americans each year. Feeling a little “down” at times is normal, but if these feelings become more intense and longer lasting you may be experiencing depression. Estimates show that some 15 million Americans struggle with depression. Depression manifests in a variety of physical and emotional symptoms. You may feel lost and hopeless, or feel that life is not worth living. You may feel overwhelmed, exhausted and empty or lose interest in activities you previously enjoyed and may experience unhealthy changes in sleeping and eating patterns.
Self-esteem Counseling and Therapy
Self-esteem is best described as the degree to which you view your own self-worth or value as a person. Your self-image begins developing during childhood and continues throughout the life-span. Low self-esteem tends to predict the type of future you will have because your beliefs about yourself will determine the choices you make in life.
Anger Counseling and Therpay
Anger is a normal human reaction to many of life’s circumstances. However, when anger is repeatedly expressed inappropriately or when it becomes the dominant emotion in our lives anger can rob us of healthy relationships and joy. Frequent angry reactions can disrupt otherwise healthy relationships at home, work or school.
Grief & Loss Counseling and Therapy
Grief is a natural reaction to the losses that we all experience at some time in our lives. Grief is a process that is as unique as a finger print and can involve a wide range of emotions from numbness and disbelief to anger, guilt, loneliness, bitterness, and overwhelming sorrow. Grief can be the result of any number of situations from the loss of a job to a divorce or separation, traumatic injury or illness, or the death of a child, spouce or friend.
Trauma Counseling and Therpay
Trauma affects people in a wide variety of ways. If you have gone through a traumatic experience, you may be struggling with upsetting emotions, frightening memories, or a sense of constant danger that won’t go away. Or you may feel numb, disconnected, and unable to trust other people. Traumatic events can be one-time events, such as natural disasters, plane crashes, car accidents, assault, robbery, or the death of a loved one. Or they can be repeated or long-term events such as repeated abuse or an individual held captive for a long period. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is often linked to long-term trauma, but can also be the result of one-time traumatic events.
Career Counseling
Career Counseling is not just for college students preparing to enter the workforce for the first time. Lay-offs, mergers, closings, and employee burnout are all too common in today’s workforce. we often find our sense of identity in our work and through career transitions and job changes we sometimes lose a sense of who we are. Whether the change is chosen or forced upon us we experience stress with transitions in our careers.