Therapy for Stress and Negative Emotions
Stress can make us do and say things that don’t match who we want to be. Stress can cause relationship problems and sleep problems, make us worry all the time, or give us a “hair trigger.” It can make us shut down or feel like we aren’t good enough.
No matter how your stress shows up in your life, there are ways to therapy can help I use scientifically-proven strategies to customize therapy that helps people feel better in whatever ways are the best fit for them.
Therapeutic Approach and Specialties
If memories of a difficult, life changing experience continues to disrupt your life for longer than a few months, it usually means something has interrupted the healing process. Together, we will identify what is getting in your way and how you can heal and move past what you went through. I explain a little more about why people have trouble moving forward after difficult experiences in this post.
The trauma-focused therapies I offer are Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Written Exposure Therapy (WET), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and DBT-Prolonged Exposure Therapy (DBT-PE)
Having trouble falling or staying asleep, or waking up two early multiple times a week can be incredibly frustrating. Fortunately, there is a very effective (and brief!), medication-free insomnia treatment called Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) that can help you sleep more soundly and feel rested again.
Recurrent nightmares adds to stress by triggering negative emotions and causing a bad night’s sleep. There are treatments to work to reduce the frequency and intensity of nightmares, including those that are about past difficult experiences. I offer Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Nightmares and Imagery Rehearsal Therapy for Nightmares to help you break the cycle of recurrent nightmares.
If, after a comprehensive evaluation, your sleep problem are not a good fit for insomnia or nightmare treatment, I will recommend other treatments or tell you how to pursue additional evaluation with another professional.
Feelings of stress, anxiety, and depression often overlap and feed into each other. The best way to interrupt cycles of stress, depression, and anxiety varies by person. Transdiagnostic therapy (therapy that can help relieve a variety of symptoms connected to a broad range of problems) can provide relief from anxiety, worry, negative emotions, difficulty turning your mind off or slowing things down, figuring out who you are and what you want from life, and trouble managing stress.
Transdiagnostic therapies I offer include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), Problem Solving Therapy (PST), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
My blog shows how I think about why people think and feel the way they do, as well as why people tend to get stuck in emotional pain.
Individual therapy is available online in 43 US states and DC (Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Connecticut, Colorado, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming).