I am particularly experienced in helping patients dealing with stress and overwhelm. Stress management is a skill that can be learned. Together we will create a plan to help you move toward a healthy state of being.
Are you tired of struggling to keep up with all of the demands in your life? Or maybe you are facing a recent challenge in your life that pulled the rug out from under you and you can’t seem to get back up. Everyday tasks become more difficult and overwhelming and you don’t see a way out. You don’t have to struggle alone. Having a therapist that you can trust and open up to can provide the comfort, empathy and compassion you need to find your way. I can help you learn effective ways to cope with your challenges so that you can begin to face them with more confidence. We can explore different paths to healing that may include mindfulness to promote self compassion and calm your nervous system, learning how to reduce and cope with stress, setting healthy boundaries, learning how to communicate your needs more effectively and/or identifying and changing negative thought patterns that are contributing to your distress.
Living with stress can be overwhelming and have an impact on your daily life, causing problems at work and at home. My goal is to identify factors that contribute to the problem and help to make a plan to minimize it's effects so that you can be more relaxed and experience safety within yourself.
Marriage and Family Therapist, EdD; EdS; MA; MA; LCMFT#0404011018; BCCLC#0131
Skills taught include relaxation training, breathing retraining, positive thinking, assertiveness training and thought stopping. Cognitive therapy helps clients change irrational beliefs that interfere with psychological functioning and create emotional disturbances. With Exposure therapy I encourage clients to confront stress/anxiety symptom triggers.
Stress has been named one of the top six killers in the United States of America. Leading to many health issues and even mental health crisis. It is important you take stress seriously and find ways to de-stress. Reaching out to a counselor is a great step toward finding out how to manage the stress and move forward. Especially in todays world where all things have become stressful in some way. our counselors are experts in helping deal with how you feel. Don't spend another day living in stress with the proper help.
All staff are trained in working with stress. Both normative and non-normative stress presentations can be addressed in therapy. Coping strategies using stress reduction techniques, exposure therapy, CBT, solution-focused, and mindfulness are integrated into our therapy approaches.
I can help you cope with stress, which is a natural physiological and psychological response to demands or pressures perceived as challenging or threatening, triggering a range of physiological, emotional, and cognitive reactions.