Challenges We Can Face Together
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Anxiety
Do you ever feel like something is sitting on your chest, restless energy, sick to your stomach, sweaty palms, racing thoughts, replaying past conversations or something thats to come in the future? All of these and other symptoms can be linked to anxiety when there is excessive amount of worry, nervousness or stress. It can be linked specifically to social events, or one specific thing or can be generalized to life in general.
Learn how to challenge your thoughts and approach situations from a realistic perspective by looking at evidence and building confidence in yourself and your strategies.
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Do you feel helpless, numb, unable to move, counting down the hours until you can go to sleep and shut out the world. Feel trapped—an unwilling witness to those living what appear to be happy lives or as if you are an actor putting on an Academy Award worthy performance of someone enjoying life. Depression can make a person feel one’s mind has taken control of the show, with self-attacking thoughts tumbling after another.​ Depression invokes hopelessness, low motivation and energy, sadness, irritability, sleep disturbance, and loss of interest and pleasure in life.
Learn how to slowly build realistic actionable steps to create movement and happiness in your life. We will look at finding ways to create or strengthen supports in your life and begin identifying and reframing unhelpful and negative thought patterns.
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Grief can come in waves or it can be an everlasting flood. When moving through life reminds us of our loss and can bring a cascade of emotions at any time, of absolute grief, removing us from the world.
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Learn how to ground yourself and reconnect with the world, riding the waves and finding peace. Be able to find happiness in the memories of those we lost by going through the grieving process with a person who can provide compassion and support.
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Are you experiencing a difficult or impactful life change either by your own choice or a loved one? This may look like transitioning into a new life stage, relationship or career or working through information brought forward by someone in your life.
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Learn how to navigate these new areas in your life by identifying what is most important to you and how to lead with these values for your self. How to communicate these to others, and to make choices for yourself that feel fulfilling and bring contentment.
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Trauma comes in many forms and is defined a person's experience. There can be one major event in someone's life or a multitude of events that happen over varying periods of time in someone's life. When a person experiences overwhelming fear, stress and/or helplessness the body and mind can respond with a variety of outcomes. Trauma can lead to difficulty relaxing and feeling at ease, difficulty focusing, negative perception of self and others, experiencing guilt and shame, troubles sleeping, flashbacks and dissociation.
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Learn how to identify triggers, to ground yourself in the present and work through the past to allow for you to live fully in the present moment and be hopeful and excited for the future.
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Infertility is painful: Emotionally, physically, and often financially. Counseling can be an important resource for support and help you to manage the difficult feelings that naturally arise during a prolonged family-building challenge. Countless elements of a fertility journey are beyond your control and yet there are also things that you still have power over. Through our work together, you will learn coping strategies and begin to incorporate balance into your thinking and your life.
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Our attachment styles develop as children and grow through our experiences. We can experience things throughout our life that challenge how we connect and communicate with others. This can look like difficulty in expressing ourselves, being overly dependent or independent of others, unhealthy relationship patterns and many other ways.
Counseling can help create effective relational and communication skill to help express one’s wants and needs in relationships. It can also be a space to explore patterns of interaction, addressing concerns, and strengthening satisfaction in relationships with others and partners.
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Do you ever feel your emotions are everywhere, that you are not the one in control. One minute you are fine, the next you are unbelievably angry or sad. You feel that your emotions do not align with the situation.
Learn how to effectively manage the ups and downs of intense emotions; developing coping skills to use in a variety of settings to calm oneself and to give an appropriate amount of space to emotions.