When to worry about anxiety & depression.
It’s natural to feel occasionally sad or hopeless, or to worry that bad things might happen.
Adults face pressure from lots of directions: relationships, money and work, kids, aging parents and more. They face tough situations with big consequences:
- Every time I think about work I just feel churning in my stomach
- I feel so much anxiety it’s become hard to function
- I’m really worried about my husband’s job, he’s very anxious about his new boss and now he’s calling in sick a lot
- I just feel irritable about everything in my life lately
- I’m going through a divorce and I dread being alone for the rest of my life
- Nothing’s really fun anymore, nothing is ever as good as I expect it to be
- I don’t feel like I’m doing great with anything — my work, my family or my friends
- My son graduated last year but he’s still at home and I’m worried about his choices
- My mom refuses my help but her health is terrible and I don’t know how to make her see sense
- When it was just my wife and me we were doing okay, but now with the baby everything’s spinning out of control
- I’m so worried about my daughter’s boyfriend, but she won’t listen to me
- I feel like I can’t even remember who I used to be
- I feel like everyone around me just takes, takes, takes, but I don’t know how to change things
Feeling anxious, worried and down tends to feed on itself. With professional help, you can break that cycle and get back to a happier place.
No one's to blame.
Anxiety and depression are often simply the mind’s way of telling us that we need better ways to handle the situations we face.
Most of us aren’t born knowing how to “rewire” our thoughts, feelings and behaviors.
We don’t instantaneously develop new ways to communicate in difficult situations.
We may not have problem-solving skills at our fingertips.
That’s why our treatment approach is evidence-based: it teaches proven skills that put you back in charge of your thoughts, feelings, emotions and actions. You learn effective ways to communicate even in really tough situations.
And you learn and practice problem-solving skills.
Science-based techniques that improve anxiety and depression.
- Our one-on-one, individual mental health counseling gives adult men and women the tools to identify your personal strengths to provide the foundation for greater confidence and new insight into your value as a person.Then, it provides individual and group training in cognitive-behavioral coping skills.You get plenty of strategies that you can start using immediately.That’s the best way to get rid of anxiety, fear, and that feeling of being stuck and powerless to help yourself.These are proven, research-based methods for handling your own feelings, emotions and actions.They work in all kinds of situations, at every stage of life.
Medication for anxiety and depression.
We believe strongly that powerful prescription medications, while helpful for some clients, should be used with caution. They should not be the first or only treatment choice.
Medication to manage anxiety and depression should always be accompanied by ongoing cognitive-behavioral counseling.
This two-pronged approach helps minimize both dosage and the duration of medication use.
Our on-site psychiatric provider is available to screen and diagnose mental health and behavioral health conditions, and can prescribe psychiatric and mood management medications as needed, including ADHD medications.