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Life today might not look the way you want it to. I’m here to tell you that that’s okay…and that it doesn’t have to stay this way. Whether anxiety or trauma is affecting your day-to-day life, you no longer want to feel dependent on substances, or you’re just ready to invest in your wellness in a new way, this is a place for you. When living with anxiety or depression, it’s easy to try to suppress it — to avoid it, pretend it isn’t there, or simply try to push through it. But eventually, it can feel like too much to handle on your own. You might be finding yourself in patterns of self-sabotage that you know aren’t good for you but can’t seem to break: not exercising or taking care of yourself physically, continually seeking out unhealthy relationships, or isolating yourself even though you are desperate for connection. Maybe it’s the impacts at work or in your romantic relationships that are causing you to realize you don’t want to keep trying to hold it all together on your own

Do you find yourself…

·   Consumed by racing thoughts?

·   Ruminating on what “could” happen?

·   Feeling hopeless or like a burden to those around you?

·   Saying to yourself “I can’t understand why I keep doing this”?

·   Avoiding people or relationships?

If you’re ready to get support to overcome your anxiety or depression, I can help.

It’s normal to want to avoid the discomfort that comes with anxiety and depression (or any life challenge). But what if staying comfortable wasn’t the only goal? What if, instead, you could use that discomfort to grow and evolve?

That’s what we work on together in depression and anxiety counseling. Not only will it help you develop new coping skills and feel more hope and peace about the future, but it will teach you how to use the difficult and uncomfortable things you’re feeling today to become a more confident, fulfilled version of yourself — no matter what life throws at you.

Anxiety and Depression Counseling

Trauma Therapy

Trauma comes in all forms, from large, significant events to smaller, ongoing experiences that impact us negatively over time. Regardless of the form trauma takes, when it is unresolved, the past unfortunately doesn’t stay there — it begins to show up in our day-to-day lives. Perhaps it’s showing up in your romantic relationships as you struggle with intimacy or anger. Maybe your past experiences have led you to consider harming yourself or you find yourself relying on substances to cope or numb how you are feeling. Or maybe you simply can’t stop thinking about what’s happened and want more than anything to be free of its effects on you. 

Trauma therapy can help you move beyond the past. Often, trauma survivors feel like they “should” be over this “by now” — as if there is some deadline they’re not meeting. Maybe you’re frustrated that something that happened so long ago is still bothering you or affecting you this much. 

Trauma therapy is about helping you, first and foremost, show yourself compassion. There is no timeline on trauma (or its impacts)! Once you are able to allow yourself the time and space to feel whatever it is that you are feeling, you can experience the freedom that comes from accepting and working through what was and confidently working toward what will be.

My approach to trauma therapy is highly individualized. I’ll start not only by helping you identify your goals for therapy but also which additional tools or interventions might be most helpful for you. These may include Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), meditation or mindfulness exercises, or other methods. From there, we’ll work together to unpack your experiences, find ways to cope with and heal from them, and help to restore your self-esteem and outlook on life as you move forward into a brighter, more hopeful future.