Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Port Charlotte, FL.

When you have a stress reaction (racing heart, racing thoughts, quick breathing, shaking, inability to think clearly, etc) it actually is due to a chemical reaction starting in your brain. It often happens immediately because your brain and body have adapted over millennia to ensure your safety. The fight/flight response is great when necessary, but not so great when a person is not really in danger. I help people understand this reaction and decrease the symptoms using several techniques such as EMDR and self-regulation skills.

Are you nervous a lot of the time? Isn’t it uncomfortable? And it doesn’t help to just be told to ‘calm down’. I am a highly trained clinical psychologist with years of both academic and clinical experience. I truly empathize with your emotional state(s) and can assist in improving your overall quality of life. How might this look? First, when you and I meet, you get support and time to just chat. This in itself can begin to lessen one’s stress. Together we can locate exactly what is making you anxious, and why. And then you and I create ways of decreasing your nervousness, and increasing your comfort level! Life can start to feel better when one’s anxiety is properly attended to.

Anxiety can affect your life in so many ways. Anxiety can keep you from reaching out for that relationship, or attempting for a better job. Anxiety can be healthy, but when you have too much it reduces your life. I really understand anxiety and stress, and can give you the tools and self-esteem to roam freely though this world, being all that you were meant to be. Let's do this!

Stress is a normal part of everyone's lives, however, when left unmanaged it can become overwhelming. We help our clients to manage stress and reduce anxious symptoms by holding safe therapeutic space for them to work through difficult emotions and experiences in a supportive environment. Anxiety can be caused by many different factors and can be temporary or chronic. Processing traumatic experiences and gaining perspective into what is contributing to your symptoms can shed light on how to lessen the severity and have more good days than bad. We will utilize therapy techniques tailored to your specific needs to assist you in making progress.

Anxiety, stress, phobias, and panic attacks can be addressed through; CBT, DBT, Narrative Therapy, Solution Focus Therapy and other effective therapy techniques. I find it best to start with SFT. Exploring the solution and finding it first works best, then looking at and addressing influencing behavior traits. For instance, knowing you are having a panic attack and not a heart attack is solution focus, then devising an action plan to follow when you are having an attack is solution focus. Keeping track of successful attempts to calm down, and setting goals to achieve less of them or eliminate attacks is all solution focus. Once anxiety is‘called out’, underlying causes are uncovered.

We hold our anxiety and stress in our body. We feel tension, gut problems, hot flashes, disrupted sleep and more. I work with anxiety and stress by helping individuals learn and develop tools to re-regulate their nervous system. When we have a coherent and fluid nervous system, we can do difficult things without feeling paralyzed by overwhelming fear.

Many individuals with stress and anxiety feel very overwhelmed and it affects their body, mind, and spirit. In therapy, we work on finding the core of the problem and then learning how to reframe it through positive coping strategies. Positive coping strategies can counteract the anxiety and can allow individuals to let go of their fears so that they will be more productive in their lives.

Anxiety and stress can be debilitating; however, there are ways to keep both emotions in check. I will help you learn skills which include but are not limited to identifying triggers, identifying your body’s response and/or reaction to a stressor or perceived threat, controlled breathing, identifying relaxing activities, staying present and thought stopping in which you assess 1) whether there is reason for alarm, 2) evidence that supports the reason, and 3) whether the reaction is warranted or not.

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.

Excessive anxiety & worry interferes with relationships, sleeping patterns, eating habits, work, school, and all other areas of life, including your health. Medications are helpful, and sometimes lifesaving for those paralyzed by anxiety & panic. However useful psychotropic medications may be at symptom reduction, they fail to address the emotional & psychological causes of anxiety, which more often than not, play a powerful role in the formation and maintenance of anxiety. My approach is to help you to focus internally, so that you can begin to understand, unravel, and heal the source of the anxiety. Whatever the cause, anxiety can be reduced, if not resolved completely, with therapy.

Approximately 50 million Americans alone deal with anxiety and stress on a daily basis. David will take you back to the origin of the stress/anxiety, to see if it is specific or generalized anxiety disorder. He uses in depth talk and journal therapy to begin the release of the stress, and then uses amino acid therapy, CBT, and other effective options to help you heal. Anxiety does not have to be a life sentence anymore with David's help.

We are all hit with feeling stressed in different parts of our daily lives. When it becomes overwhelming and affects our daily function, we may need help! We can provide that balance to find your insight and work on your inner dialogue of recognizing what you can and cannot control! Don't do life alone, let us help you find your balance! Remember a little bit helps us, too much slows us down so that balance is what we seek!