If you are tormented by anxiety, you are not alone. Whether you suffer from panic attacks, stress, chronic tension, OCD, phobias, or social anxiety, anxiety can be crippling and negatively affect your quality of life. Resolving one’s anxious feelings not only brings peace and clarity, but frees up wasted energy that can then be put toward creating the life you want.

One of the most profound determinants of how we experience our lives is how we feel about ourselves– our sense of worthiness. We live with ourselves day in and day out- and the story about ourselves and our lives that we create as we go. Developing self-esteem and self worth provides resilience to life challenges. If you have a negative view of yourself, it is not your fault. Lack of felt worthiness means you didn’t get what you needed to feel valued somewhere along the way.

Whether you have lost interest in things you used to enjoy, want to sleep all the time or at least stay wrapped up in bed, or see yourself isolating from your important relationships and withdrawing from life, depression is a miserable experience that can leave you lifeless and even wanting to die.  The good news is, most people with depression, even severe depression, can get better with depression counseling.

While PTSD can be triggered by incredibly frightening events, it can also result from more chronic forms of stress, such as emotional neglect, shame, bullying, etc.  Certain patterns of how we were treated in our families growing up were so repetitive that cumulatively it greatly impacts our nervous systems and experience of life.  These more underlying forms of trauma are just as important to address and our therapists are here to help you work through them.

Child therapy focuses on supporting kids through life experiences and helping them navigate personal and developmental changes. As child therapists we help children process feelings, explore, understand themselves and their world, solve problems, modify behavior, and make positive changes in their lives. We build a therapeutic bond with children and their parents through patience, kindness, and empathy.

Chronic stress affects our health–blood pressure, immune system, life expectancy–and, of course, life satisfaction and contentment!

Sometimes we just need to discover personalized coping mechanisms and stress management skills to help us handle all we carry logistically and emotionally. Other times it takes developing a new perspective to allow us to have inner calm in the storm while accomplishing just as much. We’re here to help you on your journey to freedom from chronic stress.