Anxiety and Stress
I do a lot of work with anxiety - from general anxiety and stress to social anxiety to PTSD and phobias. While these present differently, they all have one thing in common - they impact your quality of life in a big way. Anxiety symptoms can feel hard to deal with especially when they cause you to experience strong physical sensations like pounding chest, sweating, shortness of breath and headaches. I want to help you work though these overwhelming feelings at the root in order to heal and live a more peaceful life.
Brainspotting
Brainspotting is one type of therapy I use that helps us access your sub-cortical brain and heal trauma at a deeper level so it stops affecting your daily life the way it does now. Brainspotting is a neurobiological approach that can be really transformative and help heal trauma quickly. Like other somatic healing, Brainspotting brings significant mental health benefits associated including some with epigenetic changes. My hope is for you to feel free of that trauma, and finally leave it behind you.
More information can be found at: https://brainspotting.com/about-bsp/
Other modalities I use include: Trauma Focused, CBT, DBT, Mindfulness, somatic breath-work and a strength based approach.
Chronic Illness
Physical and chronic illness are a specific kind of trauma - medical trauma- that I specialize in. Like all trauma, there is a spectrum in which you can fall. From congenital heart disease to cancer to fibromyalgia and everything in between. Getting a diagnosis, having surgery and/or experiencing the physical symptoms takes a great toll on a person. A psychological reaction to a prognosis, the pain and/or incapacity caused by the illness or its treatment all can contribute to emotional strife. Family dynamics, ability to work and function, finances and loss in autonomy are all areas affected by this trauma which can manifest as anxiety, depression and other mental and emotional struggles.
As if the physical illness wasn’t enough, statistically, people with physical or chronic illness have more than double the risk of having a mental health diagnosis with it, such as anxiety or depression. 18.1% of Americans have anxiety. While 80% of Americas with a severe heart defect have anxiety. That is 4x more likely than someone without a heart defect.
Trauma Therapy
I feel it is important to provide information on trauma because it is the base of many symptoms. From troubles with concentration to sleep, panic attacks to having trouble getting motivated and many more. Trauma is on a spectrum ranging in severity. Every trauma is significant and impactful. Trauma manifests differently for everyone. I want to help you look at your trauma so you can learn individual triggers, warning signs and help heal from it so you can move on. I have extensive experience with developmental trauma and Developmental Trauma Disorder.
