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Depression

Almost everyone has dark thoughts when his or her mood is bad. With depression, though, the thoughts can be extremely negative. They can also take over and distort your view of reality. Cognitive therapy can be an effective way to defuse those thoughts. When used for depression, cognitive therapy provides a mental tool kit that can be used to challenge negative thoughts. Over the long term, cognitive therapy for depression can change the way a depressed person sees the world.

Studies have shown that cognitive therapy works at least as well as antidepressants in helping people with mild to moderate depression. Treatment with medication and/or psychotherapy can shorten depression's course and can help reduce symptoms such as fatigue and poor self-esteem that accompany depression.

Chronic Illness

Generally speaking, a chronic illness is a disease or condition that is recurrent over varying amounts of time. Sometimes chronic illness persists and lasts for years, while other forms of chronic illness are intermittent and may be sporadic. Either way, chronic illness can be debilitating to a person’s physical, social, and psychological well-being. Because chronic illnesses are so varied, their causes and symptoms can be very different. However, there may be several steps you can take to diminish your chances of getting a chronic illness and improving your overall health. Let’s review a few simple steps:

- Exercise – Make sure you spend enough time exercising. This doesn’t mean you have to run 5 miles a day; instead, try taking the stairs instead of the elevator or bike to work!

- Eat better – We’ve all heard the expression “you are what you eat.” Try to incorporate a few healthy snacks to your diet. For example, grab an apple instead of chips for your afternoon snack.

- Monitor substance use – It’s important to understand that smoking and drinking are both connected to chronic illness.

- Get enough sleep – Sleeping allows your body and mind to recharge. Even if you can only go to bed 15 minutes earlier each night, it’s worth it!

- Incorpate the aboves with Therapy and you will have strong conditions for a healthy life both physically and mentally.

Trauma

Emotional and psychological trauma is the result of extraordinarily stressful events that shatter your sense of security, making you feel helpless and vulnerable in a dangerous world. Traumatic experiences often involve a threat to life or safety, but any situation that leaves you feeling overwhelmed and alone can be traumatic, even if it doesn’t involve physical harm. It’s not the objective facts that determine whether an event is traumatic, but your subjective emotional experience of the event. The more frightened and helpless you feel, the more likely you are to be traumatized.

Anxiety

When it comes to treating anxiety disorders, research shows that therapy is usually the most effective option. That’s because anxiety therapy—unlike anxiety medication—treats more than just the symptoms of the problem. Therapy can help you uncover the underlying causes of your worries and fears; learn how to relax; look at situations in new, less frightening ways; and develop better coping and problem-solving skills. Therapy gives you the tools to overcome anxiety and teaches you how to use them.

The anxiety disorders differ considerably, so therapy should be tailored to your specific symptoms and concerns. If you have obsessive-compulsive disorder, your treatment will be different from someone who’s getting help for anxiety attacks.

Marital Therapy

Keeping a marriage healthy and happy over time takes work, and is sometimes quite a difficult task. It is wonderful when a couple in a troubled relationship is able to recognize and jointly work out their differences. This process is seldom easy, however. Once problems have started to become chronic, each partner feels betrayed by the other and compromise feels unsafe. In such cases, the safe and protected haven offered by a marital or couples therapist can make the difference between a marriage that fails and one that recovers itself.

Marital therapy is probably the best single thing that people in troubled marriages can do to help heal their marriages. A skilled marriage therapist offers support and intervention that can help distrusting disengaged partners to safely address their difficulties and begin the process of problem solving and healing.

Session Fees

$250 Per Session

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Lisa's therapy helped me heal from trauma; her approach is truly compassionate and effective.

Emily R.

I felt safe and understood during my sessions; highly recommend her for couples therapy.

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