Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Ridgely, MD.

Anxiety and stress can seem a constant part of our lives. Anxiety is one of the most common mental health conditions. It can also be treated very effectively. Treatment for anxiety at Perspectives Counseling Center can include cognitive behavioral therapy to address beliefs and behavior that can contribute to anxiety, relaxation and centering exercises to provide immediate relief to the unpleasant sensations associated with anxiety, and learning tools to help you create and maintain a balanced mood.

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.

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.