Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Spring Grove, PA.

Anxiety is often a sign of other, more deeply rooted issues. You may experience the anxiety as the primary issue, or may think that it is the primary issue, or that there is nothing more to the situation than your anxiety, but in reality, oftentimes there are underlying issues that are causing the anxiety, or that are making the anxiety worse. Therapy can help to bring those issues to the surface.

Time of Need Counseling offers Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients who suffer from unhealthy anxiety. Anxiety effects mind and body. It can impact a person’s ability to function at work, school, in public places, and in social setting. Our counselors can assist you to identify ways to find relief from worry, social anxiety, phobias, and debilitating fear.

There are few things worse than being paralyzed by anxiety and/or stress. I have worked with people experiencing symptoms that mirror a heart attack when faced with a panic attack; it is scary, overwhelming and debilitating. The good news is that there are ways to minimize this overpowering discomfort. I have helped my clients learn simple breathing exercises, relaxation techniques and other helpful coping skills to help them function better when facing overwhelming stress. I want to help you to navigate your life so that anxiety and/or stress is not winning and robbing you of joy in your daily activities. Trust me on this one, I have seen the smiles on my clients who have won.

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.

Learning to manage your anxiety is possible and living a life in which your fears don't cripple you is within your grasp. Anxiety and stress does not need to control your life nor limit the things you want to do. My area of expertise is in helping people understand what anxiety is, where it comes from and how to keep it from ruling their lives. I can help you learn how to face your fears and gain power over them.

There is normal stress and anxiety and then there are levels which are far beyond what you imagine to be on that range. We live high-stress and fast-paced lives and it is understandable why we sometimes feel overwhelmed and highly stressed out. There is help available to assist you in calming your nerves and finding productive and safe methods for dealing with the many painful stressors around us.

Let's face it. Life can be overwhelming and stressful at times. When your normal coping is no longer effective, that stress and anxiety can take over. The clinicians at GBCC are exemplarly and helping with anxiety. Our clinicians specialize in relaxation techniques that can help reduce overall stress and anxiety to help you get on to better living.

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.

Some anxiety and stress in our lives is normal and unavoidable. There is no way to rid it from your life entirely. However, problems arise when it becomes excessive. It can take over your life and prevent you from doing the things you want to do. Let's work together to identify the sources of your stress and anxiety, learn to reduce its intensity and frequency and to adjust your reaction to the anxiety so when it does occur so you can go about living your life to the fullest.

Trained in critical incident intervention, we can quickly address the stress induced by fresh trauma. But the other unique feature of our practice is the integration of newly developed devices that have proven track record at reducing anxiety, stress, and PTSD symptoms, treating neurons of the brain in more direct manner than 'talk therapy'. This has brought us very quick and dramatic outcomes of improvement in patients, from the very young to 'senior'.

Through a mind, body, and spirit approach, you will learn how to relax and manage stress and anxiety. In this busy world, it's easy to get stressed out. Often times we over identify with our jobs, our responsibilities, our things, our bodies, and even our own philosophies. "Over identifying" leads to self criticism and or stressful living! Each session will provide you relief, and learn strategies to take charge of your body and mind, so you can feel at ease while getting your "todo"list complete. My expertise in breathwork, cognitive restructuring, hypnosis, yoga and behavior modification will help you relax.

Addressing fears by identifying maladaptive thoughts and irrational thinking is the approach that Dr. Crosson utilizes for treating anxiety and stress. Self-calming, imagery and deep breathing are techniques that are incorporated into sessions. Dr. Crosson also implements a holistic approach that address diet and exercise and works in tandem with a masseuse to develop specialized treatment plans to release physical tension.

Everyone feels anxiety at some point in their lives but when it starts to interfere with your life, counseling can help. Although anxiety can feel debilitating, it is treatable. People with anxiety don’t always share the same symptoms, they vary from person to person. Therapy will help you to reclaim your life and function in a chronically stressful world.