Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Oakland, MD.

My approach for helping people with anxiety and stress is to look at any thoughts and behaviors you have that are contributing to it. Anxiety and stress are often the result of how people see themselves and the world around them. I would help you change your perceptions, which will reduce your anxiety and stress. There are also healthy changes you can make to your behavior that will reduce anxiety and stress. Exercising, meditation, deep breathing and mindfulness are great coping skills for reducing anxiety and stress. Deep breathing and mindfulness are great tools to use when you are experiencing anxiety and stress. Meditation is a tool that works for you even when you aren’t meditating.

To help you manage your stress and anxiety symptoms, we start with understanding the nature and patterns of your symptoms in relation to environmental triggers, traumatic life events, and unhelpful thinking patterns that influence your daily perspective. Using a collaborative alliance, we will look for better ways to manage both your external stressors and internal reactions. A cognitive-behavioral approach offers practical methods to understand how thought patterns influence emotional reactions and behaviors. By redirecting and re-framing your thoughts with alternative thoughts, you can experience a reduction in unpleasant emotions and an increase in personal effectiveness.

There are at least four components to reducing anxiety. The first is to learn self-soothing techniques. the second is to become aware of the thoughts and images which are making you anxious and to deliberately choose other thoughts and images. The third is to discover and face what you are most afraid of. Sometimes, when there has been trauma, this fear is something that has already happened and from which you have not recovered. Often it is something out of your control, a fact of life, like death! We need to make peace with these, accept their reality and make the best of what we have. I have some excellent tools from hypnosis and a field of study called NLP to speed your progress.