Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Washington, CT.

When people tell you that your anxiety is “all in your head” they are wrong. The parasympathetic nervous system puts your body in a calm state when your sympathetic nervous system reacts to a stimulus or event that puts you on high alert and sends you into fight or flight. Anxiety can be a driving force in our lives but when it begins to get in the way of living a peaceful life, it’s time to make a change. Using psychotherapy, CBT, relaxation exercises, and many other therapeutic strategies, we can create a plan for you to identify stressors and calm yourself. You have the power to make change.

I assist adults in understanding causes of their current anxiety and identify the triggers that lead them to an anxious state. Teaching you how to mitigate your anxiety through positive strategies, breathing techniques, and nutritional and physical exercises, has been a primary focus of my 30+ years of clinical practice. I assist children/adolescents in helping them to build the courage to approach what they would rather avoid, minimizing their fear and maximizing their ongoing capacity to take risks throughout their lives. Early intervention is key in minimizing the impact of anxiety throughout a lifetime.

I help couples identify the triggers to their anxiety and develop a system to deal with stress before it deals with them! What would your life be like as a couple if you weren't continually activated in negative ways by stress? We will work together to make small steps toward change. Clients report less chronic pain when they are managing anxiety in healthy ways. It is possible to reduce anxiety and live life in a more vivid way, even if you situation is not optimal. I can teach you both to acknowledge and release these negative thoughts, thus releasing the "trauma" that has built up in your body (stored stress and anxiety)

I will support you in working through your anxiety and coping with your stress. Together we will look at where your anxiety originated from. I will assist you to stand in your power and face your anxiety so that it does not control your decisions in life. Plus we will go at your pace. I will help you in taking back your power and enjoy life again.

Anxiety can take over your life. All you think about is the negative, something bad happening, and the constant state of worry. Know there is help out there and we will work together to identify these thoughts, feeling, which can impact behaviors. Making this shift in thinking is a huge aspect of anxiety treatment so each of our therapists are highly training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which is the gold standard of anxiety treatment. Give us a call today to learn more!

While most treatment approaches for anxiety and stress are effective on the surface, they don’t treat the real problem. Mantras, deep breathing, and rational dialogues about your fear being irrational rarely work---for most people don’t believe it or you! Imagine if you can trick the brain into changing without you telling your conscious mind that you are changing it? Problem with anxiety and stress is that the brain in this state knows you want to change it and it resists. Contact Kevin@kevinfleminphd.com for the ultimate stress and anxiety solution that will literally change your brain's autonomic nervous system patterns while you sit on your butt. 877-606-6161.

I counsel patients with anxiety and stress incorporating exercise, spirituality and meditation. First we identify the source of the stress and then identify as many factors as possible to alleviate the stress. Counseling identifies all the factors that are out of the patients control.Learning to live with stress and living life on lives terms. Talking about problems, identifying positive responses and alternative solutions. Writing out solutions and writing to identify the problem. Life is meant to be happy, joyful and free.