Counseling Services

 It is normal and even helpful at times to experience some levels of anxiety, but when anxiety feels persistent, uncontrollable and overwhelming, you may be suffering from an anxiety disorder. Anxiety can look like difficulty sleeping, panic attacks, racing thoughts, headaches or other physical issues. Challenging irrational thoughts and learning new ways to cope with anxiety through therapy may help to take back control of your life.  

Maybe you are stuck in a never-ending cycle of dieting, bingeing, purging, or over exercising and having trouble figuring out how to stop. Perhaps you have felt social pressure and have difficulty with shame and guilt about your body and food choices. Therapy can help you break the cycle and achieve peace with food and your body, and restore your life. Eating disorders can be difficult to treat, but with support and tools to support a life in recovery, change is possible.  

At one point or another, we all may struggle with intrusive thoughts or unwanted obsessions. With Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, this struggle becomes so extreme it can take up all of  your time, energy, and there is little to no relief. These thoughts are usually accompanied by intense and uncomfortable feelings such as fear, disgust, doubt, or a feeling that things have to be done in a way that is “just right.”  Through interventions like Exposure and Response Prevention, you can begin to safely challenge these thoughts and practice gaining tolerance for the discomfort to free yourself from rituals and obsessions.

Traumatic events can leave you feeling unsafe and out of control. The effects of a trauma can linger long after the event has passed.  You can see the effects of these changes in your body through symptoms like a racing heartbeat, dizziness, nausea, shortness of breath, shaking, feeling hot and flushed, and sweating. Traumatic memories can become less painful and more manageable over time with specialized intervention and healing through therapy.