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Depression often causes people to feel sad, empty, or hopeless, and can cause a lack of interest in life. It can also affect a person's thinking patterns and physical health.

Depression

Anxiety can mean nervousness, worry, or self-doubt. Anxiety disorder is a mental health disorder that entails excessive, repeated bouts of worry, anxiety, and/or fear.

Anxiety

Designed to help people choose, change, or leave a career at any stage of life. Careers are often wrapped up in people’s perceived identity, therefore, any change can cause anxiety and/or depression.

Careers

Workplace issues are a common source of stress and can include interpersonal conflict, communication problems, gossip, harassment, discrimination, low motivation and job satisfaction, performance issues, and poor job fit.

Work Stress

Refers relationship issues with a partner or spouse. Can include issues related to relationship distress, relationship satisfaction, communication, intimacy, etc.

Relationship Issues

Grief is a reaction to an emotionally significant loss and often comes with symptoms of depression or anxiety. These symptoms can remain intense and last for a long time after a loss, making it difficult to move forward with a healthy lifestyle.

Loss/Grief

Self-esteem is the degree to which a person feels confident, valuable, and worthy of respect. Feeling low self-esteem can influence overall well-being and be linked to anxiety and/or depression.

Self-Esteem

PTSD is a condition that is precipitated by a perceived terrifying event. This event need not occur directly to the person but may happen vicariously—having seen something terrible happen to another person. The condition may last months or years while symptoms include ruminating thoughts, flashbacks, nightmares, intense anxiety when triggered, and potential substance abuse in attempt to cope.

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Postpartum depression is a form of depression that occurs after childbirth. It may stem from hormonal changes that naturally occur in the body, emotional instability, and/or cognitive factors. Anxiety, crying, emotional outbursts, and mood swings are common symptoms. The condition may last months or longer and increases the likelihood of developing major depressive disorder later in life.

Postpartum depression

Premarital counseling is a specialized form of therapy that helps prepare couples for marriage. Although it is helpful for struggling couples, it may be useful for anyone looking to build a stronger foundation moving into marriage. Couples may explore considerations around healthy communication, merging families, where to live, children, occupation, finances, maintaining a sense of self, supporting one another, and the wedding itself.

Premarital counseling

Distress stems from a subjective perception of something being unwanted, undesirable, or detrimental to your wellbeing. Excessive stress significantly impairs mental and physical health and is associated with many diseases and conditions.

Stress

Trauma is the result of experiencing a perceived, extremely distressful event. Although the stress threshold for each person differs, meaning that each person considers and experiences trauma differently, it is an event that tops one’s threshold. It exceeds one’s ability to cope or emotionally process. Symptoms may include shock, anxiety, confusion, hopelessness, feeling disconnected, mood swings, nightmares, and intrusive thoughts.

Trauma

Issues within a marriage. Can include issues related to trust, intimacy, communication, infidelity, parenting, or conflict. Can also include discussion related to separation or divorce.

Marriage issues

Coping skills are tools and techniques one can learn, practice, and use to handle difficult emotions, decrease stress, and establish or maintain a sense of internal order.

Coping Skills

Couples

Families

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LMFT

Psychotherapy focused on the interaction between thought and behavior. Examines negative thought patterns with the goal of changing responses to negative stimuli. Often used to treat depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Trauma-based psychotherapy used to identify and challenge negative thought patterns and modify underlying beliefs. Teaches a set of skills to empower people to combat feelings of fear, anxiety, depression, guilt, and anger.

Cognitive Processing Therapy

Skill-based therapy focused on communication, management, and validation of painful emotions. Four key areas include mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. Often used to treat depression, bulimia, binge-eating, bipolar disorder, and substance abuse.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Integrative approach to psychotherapy focused on gender-based stressors women face as a result of bias, stereotyping, oppression, and discrimination. Promotes understanding of social factors contributing to issues, helping the person become more self-aware.

Feminist Therapy

Approach to psychotherapy helping people focus on the present rather than their perception of the past. Encourages the re-experiencing of emotions, sometimes through re-enactment. Goal is for clients to become more self-aware.

Gestalt Therapy

Addresses behavior and emotions of family members/partners and how they affect one another. Therapy is given to individuals and groups. Used to treat conflict and uncover the impact of mental disorders on the group.

Marriage and Family Therapy

Modified form of cognitive therapy that reveals thought patterns that prevail during depressive episodes and teaches new ones to ease emotional pain and maintain wellness. Implements practices like meditation and breathing exercises.

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy

Form of counseling that helps people resolve ambivalence and insecurity into the motivation to meet specific goals like sobriety. Utilizes collaborative conversation, recognizing how difficult change can be while fostering an atmosphere of acceptance.

Motivational Interviewing

Approach that views people as objective experts on their own experiences, giving them the distance to make meaning out of their life. Therapist leads and empowers them to adjust and balance thought patterns and behaviors.

Narrative Therapy

Focuses on traits, thoughts, behaviors, and experiences that can improve the quality of someone's daily life. Goal is to center on positive experiences like optimism, creativity, and resilience, giving balance to the therapeutic process.

Positive Psychology

Therapists use the therapeutic benefits of play to help clients prevent or resolve psychosocial difficulties, and assists with growth and development. Can be used to address behavioral problems, as well as anxiety, depression, ADHD, and academic and social development. Can include creative visualization storytelling, role-playing, puppets, stuffed animals, arts and crafts, sand play, etc. Play Therapy is typically used to help children between ages of 3-12.

Play Therapy

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Abuse includes any significant mistreatment along the lines of psychical, emotional, sexual, verbal, and neglect. Survivors of abuse may experience negative thoughts and feelings, flashbacks, distrust of others, social withdrawal, self-harm, and increased likelihood of developing mental health and substance abuse issues.

Noralyn JacksonLMFT

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