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Depression / Anxiety
Depression and anxiety affect countless people in the world today. Depression leaves people feeling helpless, hopeless,
and worthless. Anxiety consumes people, and leaves them feeling worried, irritable, and uneasy. While depression
and anxiety disorders are quite common in our world today, they are also very treatable.
In my work with individuals who are depressed and/or anxious, I use an integrative approach. I use cognitive-behavioral
therapy, insight-oriented therapy, experiential therapy, and EMDR.
I use cognitive-behavioral therapy to assist my clients in challenging common thought distortions that maintain
their depression and anxiety. I also challenge my clients to examine the fear-based, self-limiting beliefs that
bind them, and assist them in exchanging these beliefs for newer, healthier ones.
Psychodynamic, insight-oriented therapy is used to help clients
bring to conscious awareness those events in the past that have shaped who they are in the present. With new insight
and greater self-awareness, clients have enough conscious awareness to make new choices on how they want to live
their lives.
Experiential therapy enables clients to experience themselves differently than they have ever before. While it
is important for a client to have an intellectual understanding of his or her problem, it is also paramount that
he or she experiences in their bodies what it is like to feel empowered, alive, and self-assured.
Finally, I use EMDR to help clients’ come to terms with traumatic life events that may be triggering his or her
anxiety and depression. Moreover, I use the technique known as resource installation to help clients focus on their
personal strengths, as well focus on the gains they have made, and this in turn elevates their mood and raises
their self-esteem.
Depression and anxiety are as prevalent in our world today as the common cold. Never the less, I have found that
an integrative psychotherapeutic approach effectively treats these two afflictions.
Read
my published article about how self image relates to depression and anxiety here > |
