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For When Life Gets Difficult and You Realize You Need Help
For When Life Gets Difficult and You Realize You Need Help
Leaving you feeling overwhelmed, stressed, anxious, depressed, or scared…
If that’s where you’ve been living lately, the first thing I want you to know is that you are not alone in it.
Most of my clients tell me the hardest part wasn’t the therapy. It was picking up the phone in the first place. Fear has a way of freezing us at exactly the moment we most need to move.
So let today be the day you look that fear in the eye and let it know it doesn’t get to win.
Billy* was fifteen when it happened. He went in for a routine round of vaccinations already dreading it. The worry had been building for days.
When the nurse came in with the needle, he panicked. He couldn’t breathe. His heart hammered, he was shaking and crying, and in the end the nurse and his mother had to hold him down while he screamed.
When they let go, he ran. Out of the office, out of the building, into an open field, where he sat and sobbed.
That was fifteen years ago. Billy is thirty now, and he has not let anyone near him with a needle since. Not once. Not a single blood draw to check on his health in all that time. He was too scared to allow it.
And needles were only the beginning. The fear didn’t stay in its lane. It spilled into everything. He worried constantly, about everything, and felt helpless to stop it.
He pulled away from the people who loved him, and they didn’t know how to reach him. He started to feel ashamed of himself. Some days, he genuinely hated himself.
Most of all, he felt trapped.
*A fictitious name and scenario, used to illustrate a very real situation.
Billy called to ask if I could help with the anxiety that had taken over his life. He was scared, but he was also done, and willing to do whatever it took.
He told me he’d seen other therapists before, and that none of them had ever really understood him. He never felt like they were treating him as his own person.
So we did it differently. We went at Billy’s pace. Slowly, session by session, we made progress, and he was scared the whole way, but boy, was he brave.
Today, Billy has had his blood drawn twice. The first time, I was right there beside him. It was hard, and we did it anyway. The second time, he went on his own, and did it with ease.
No issue is too big. None is too small. None is too serious, and none is too trivial to bring to me.
I’ll meet you where you are. Wherever that is.
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All the training and experience in the world is worthless in therapy if there’s no real trust between us. Building that trust is the thing I do best. It’s the foundation everything else stands on.
As a licensed psychologist, my training and experience exist to serve that connection, not to stand in for it.
I believe most of what we struggle with is rooted in three places: our experiences, our thinking patterns, and our behavior. Early on, I work to figure out which of those is driving what you’re going through right now. And then, together, we get to work changing it.
We develop a warm, healing, and non-judgmental environment in which you can open up about your deepest issues. Then, we identify what you are struggling with and develop a plan of action.
Excessive worry, fear, stress and impending doom – they lead to sleepless nights and brutal mornings of sluggish dread. In therapy you will learn to keep your anxiety at bay and take your life back.
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