Is anxiety taking over your life? Does it feel like you can’t control it no matter how hard you try? Have you already tried therapy but found it ineffective?
If this sounds like you, I’m confident I can help. My practice offers the most effective forms of treatment, to get the relief from anxiety that you deserve.
When it comes to treating anxiety disorders, research shows that therapy is usually the most effective option. That’s because anxiety therapy - as opposed to anxiety medication - treats more than just symptoms of the problem.
I help clients manage anxiety and fears by identifying and understanding their specific triggers and negative thought patterns. I teach techniques to challenge and change these thoughts, promoting more balanced and realistic thinking. I also guide clients in learning relaxation methods and gradually facing their fears to build confidence. This personalized approach helps clients gain control over their anxiety and fear, leading to improved overall well-being and resilience.
We feel anxious because there are things we are avoiding. I approach anxiety with a combination of CBT, exposure, and mindfulness to explore what it is you might be avoiding and how you can safely reverse that cycle of avoidance. Please feel free to reach out to me to learn more about my approach to treating anxiety.
Did you know that anxiety can be the mind’s way of protecting itself from feelings that seem unacceptable? As therapy progresses, the hope is to develop the emotional muscle to sit with all of your feelings, without having to push them away and be anxious instead.
We will work together to decrease your anxiety and fears using different CBT techniques including but not limited to cognitive restructuring, journaling, progressive muscle relaxation and relaxed breathing
Anxiety and specific fears or phobias are often learned behaviors from our family of origin. With the use of cognitive behavioral, emotion-focused, and EMDR therapy. We can work together to untangle those anxious or fearful thought patterns and retrain your brain to problem solve instead of becoming anxious.
Everyone worries, but when we feel overwhelmed by anxious thoughts and behaviors on a daily basis, it can become incapacitating and interfere with daily functioning, robbing us of the capacity for joy. Anxiety can present as physical symptoms, interfering with our sleep and digestion, or as dysfunctional thinking (such as rumination or catastrophic thinking). Some individuals may experience panic attacks, phobias, obsessive-compulsive tendencies, constant worry, or a general feeling of dis-ease.
Anxiety is the most commonly experienced mental illness in our country, and women are twice as likely to suffer from an anxiety disorder as men. The term anxiety disorder refers to prolonged or extreme fear or worry, and includes, but is not limited to: generalized anxiety disorder, panic attacks, social anxiety, and specific phobias. Anxiety is often experienced as overwhelming fear accompanied by physical symptoms such as a pounding heart, sweating, and rapid breathing.
Joie de Vivre utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) a very common method of psychotherapy with great results to treat Anxiety Disorder. This form of therapy is geared toward helping you recognize and understand your pattern of thoughts. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on teaching you coping skills or mechanisms you can use to help you return to normal functioning and ease your feelings of anxiety. Integrative services such as, Biofeedback and Mindfulness are used to compliment your treatment and promote emotional regulation and a healthier lifestyle.
My approach to the treatment of anxiety is a combination of cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, as well as interpersonal therapy. I help people to better understand why they are experience anxiety. I will work with you to learn tools to reduce your anxiety.
I specialize in trauma, anxiety, and depressive disorders. My goal is to provide a warm and safe environment in which we can work toward your goals for recovery and healing. Working together, you can meet your goals and live a better life.
Overwhelming feelings of anxiety and fear run rapid when you feel helpless in certain situations. While you sometimes have little or no control over situations, you can control how it affects you. It is all about how you think, which can change with a little help. Therapy is a good place to tackle your anxiety and fear. I would love to help you work through to and experience a new kind of freedom.
I work with individuals who struggle with social anxiety and everyday anxiety. I help clients to practice managing their everyday anxiety to be able to live a life where they feel capable. I use CBT and DBT to help clients learn skills to practice overcoming their anxiety.
Anxiety is the most commonly experienced mental illness in our country, and women are twice as likely to suffer from an anxiety disorder as men. The term anxiety disorder refers to prolonged or extreme fear or worry, and includes, but is not limited to: generalized anxiety disorder, panic attacks, social anxiety, and specific phobias. Anxiety is often experienced as overwhelming fear accompanied by physical symptoms such as a pounding heart, sweating, and rapid breathing.
How can counseling help?
Joie de Vivre utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) a very common method of psychotherapy with great results to treat Anxiety Disorder. This form of therapy is geared toward helping you recognize and understand your pattern of thoughts. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on teaching you coping skills or mechanisms you can use to help you return to normal functioning and ease your feelings of anxiety. Integrative services such as, Biofeedback, Mindfulness and Nature Therapy are used to compliment your treatment and promote emotional regulation and a healthier lifestyle.
I understand that fear can prevent you from accomplishing what you want to in life. I help you confront anxiety, embrace a growth mindset, and overcome your fears.
Anxiety has it's origin from various experiences, it could be within the family structure, environment, and or traumatic experiences. Whatever the origin, it's a challenge that can be worked on and managed so that it's not affecting daily living, rather, if you put the work needed, you can live a healthy mental health life.
i have been a licensed therapist providing therapy since 2014. As all therapists will tell you, this career is very rewarding and most of us love what we do - helping people. What makes me different is I am laser-focused on helping each and every client learn their own personal power and how they replace sadness and fear with joy and fulfillment. We'll do this by addressing your past trauma's, family dysfunction, as well as distorted thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that developed as a result of growing up and older in unhealthy relationships. Gaining awareness, changing these patterns, and learning effective coping skills, is key to stopping anxiety and depression from robbing you of the life you so desperately want and deserve.