Everybody worries or gets anxious from time to time, as life throws curveballs at our way more than we think we can handle. However, when our worry and anxiety interfere with our ability to function, it may be a sign of a more complex anxiety disorder that requires professional help in making manageable. You are not alone in experiencing anxiety, despite what it tells you. Therapy helps you learn how to cope with your stressors, challenge your negative thought patterns, and find peace and resilience.

A client told me that depression feels like sinking into a pit of not-so-quick sand. You don’t often know that it’s trying to pull you under until it’s too late. By the time that you try to escape, it feels impossible and exhausting. You can sometimes see the way out, sometimes see a hand coming to pull you out, but you can’t get yourself to grasp on to that help. While going to therapy while experiencing depression can be hard, finding relief and maintaining that relief with proven treatments is worth the effort it takes.

Family wounds are hard and often taboo to speak about. However, some of us grow up in families that didn’t protect us from harm, didn’t allow us to safely build trust, and didn’t teach us how to form healthy relationships. Therapy is a helpful tool in teaching your body and mind that you are safe, you are not guilty for what happened to you, and you can safely be vulnerable.

The demands that grief requires can feel overwhelming. From making arrangements in the immediate to trying to function on big days even years after a loss, grief is exhausting, time consuming, and ongoing and comes in waves. However, our culture’s commentary on grief makes those with lingering helplessness, depression, and anger feel like they’re doing something wrong. The reality is that there is no “normal” way to grieve. Anything and everything that you are feeling is a normal response to grief, whether the grief is caused by an expected loss or an unexpected loss. However, there is hope, purpose, love, and joy on the other side of the pain you are facing, and we can work together to help you find it.

Motherhood is beautiful, difficult, purpose-giving, and terrifying. Becoming a mom is a life transition, and, just like any life transition, it can cause anxiety, fear, and depression. However, unlike any other transition, you don’t always believe that it’s safe to say what you’re actually thinking out loud. Therapy is a space for you to share every thought you have - even the most terrifying ones.

Traumatic experiences often leave people feeling stuck, unsafe, and overwhelmed with reminders of how what’s happened to them has affected them. Sometimes, we’re able to put on a brave face after our traumatic experiences and show the outside world that we’re okay. Sometimes, we immediately fall apart. No matter where you are in your healing from trauma journey, the good news is that counseling works, and there are several evidence-based treatments that are proven to help reduce your symptoms, solidify your healing, and help you live a healthy, happy life.