Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Sanibel, FL.

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!

Anxiety and stress can be so difficult to manage and seem to come out of nowhere. When we dig in, we will work to learn the core of the distress that you are experiencing. As we learn your life story, we may find that some of the distress is rooted in early childhood trauma and attachment wounding. We'll embrace all parts that make you "you" and learn about the challenging messages you may have grown up with that manifested into the distress you feel today. Anxiety and stress can be a messenger, an alarm telling you that it is time to heal experiences from earlier in life. In our work together, we'll use EMDR, Emotion Focused Therapy and Expressive Arts to help you heal!

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.

“The only way out is through.” I consider anxiety for a piece of information. The message anxiety delivers to you is supposed to protect you and help you. The key is to learn to read and use your anxiety for your benefit. In psychotherapy you will learn to relax, meditate and so connect and melt your anxiety and stress. You will learn effective and lasting tools to cope with anxiety and stress, new ways of thinking and behaving.

As a high-achieving man, anxiety and stress comes with the territory. And you wouldn’t be where you are today in life unless you’ve handled it pretty well until now. But most successful men find that anxiety eventually impacts them. Whether it’s slowly been eating at you for years, or you’ve just experienced your first panic attack, you’re not going crazy. There are solutions, and this can get better. I help men learn practical stress-management techniques, but I don’t stop there. I also help them identify the root causes of their stress and anxiety, and use research-proven EMDR therapy to systematically target them. The results are measurable, evidenced by deeper calm and clarity of mind.

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.

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.

Are you a hard-working guy being crushed by stress? Stress, anxiety, burnout, and addiction are all predictable outcomes when stress gets too high. In my experience, men are often misunderstood and under-appreciated... even by their own wives and children. The good news is that you don’t have to slowly suffer and fade off into the sunset. You were created for more than this, and even strong men need support from time to time. You’ve shown your grit through the ups and downs of life. You’ve already been through a lot. But getting professional help shows a different kind of toughness, and if right now you’re buckling under the weight of life, it’s time to take the next step. I’m here to help.

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.