Treatments

 
 

Anxiety & Stress Disorders

Anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric illnesses affecting children and adults. When you experience anxiety that is persistent, seemingly uncontrollable, overwhelming and disabling you may have an anxiety disorder.

Mood Disorders

Mood disorders represent a category of psychiatric disorders in which the underlying problem primarily affects a person’s persistent emotional state or mood. Mood disorders are made up of depressive types and bipolar types.

Resiliency, Coping and Wellness Training

Resilience can help protect a person from various mental health conditions, such as depression and anxiety, and most importantly this training improves the quality of life. Resilience can also help offset factors that increase the risk of mental health conditions, such as being bullied or previous trauma.

 

Youth Services

Children and adolescents experience normal problems of growing up due to pressures of social media, school, socializing, self esteem or family. Our youth services provide assistance in dealing with educational, social, and vocational issues.

Executive Functioning

Many children and adults who have weak executive functioning skills are negatively impacted in all areas of life but fortunately through assessment and intervention, executive skills can be strengthened and compensatory strategies can be learned. When these skills are well developed, children and adults can better maximum their potential and future outcomes.

Intensive Treatment Programs

Often times, weekly therapy may not be sufficient to help those who struggle with significant anxiety. Our team is excited to offer an intensive outpatient treatment program that will support the needs of people who require additional treatment and care. Our team specializes in treating OCD and related disorders, specific phobias, social phobia, panic disorder and other anxiety-related disorders.

 

Panic Attacks

Feelings of terror that occur suddenly and without warning The feeling that you are having a heart attack or that death is imminent Your fear or terror is out-of-proportion to the true situation you are experiencing.

Simple and Complex Phobias

Phobias are the most common type of anxiety disorder. A person experiences extreme or irrational fear of an animal, object, place, or situation. Such fears cross the line into phobia when a person begins to organize their life around avoiding the things they fear.

Fear of Flying

Fear of flying is a type of phobia and is part of the spectrum of anxiety disorders. This type of anxiety is linked to the fear of what might happen, as opposed to the fright one would experience in the middle of an actual flight emergency.

 

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

People with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) often become the subject of a lack of understanding that focuses on the particular rituals they perform as a part of their disorder. The truth of the matter is that this particular anxiety disorder represents a very serious condition that often grips the victim's mind with fear and, in a very real way, controls their lives.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

A disorder that typically occurs with other mood or anxiety afflictions, Generalized Anxiety Disorder subjects an individual to ongoing anxiety that is excessive and unrelenting. A little worry and concern throughout the day or week is normal for most people. With Generalized Anxiety Disorder, however, "normal" anxiety crosses the line to the point that your concern is uncontrollable.

Social Anxiety Disorder

Poor social skills, coupled with an unreasonable fear of situations in which you believe others are judging you, combine to create a condition known as social anxiety disorder. People with this disorder often have difficulty performing basic interactive functions. Though these tasks might seem simple to the average person, they can cause extreme fear and self-consciousness for a person who suffers from this condition.

 

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) often develops after exposure to a terrifying event or ordeal in which intense physical harm has occurred or was threatened. Sufferers of this disorder have persistent and frightening thoughts and memories of their ordeal.

Phase of Life Adjustment Anxiety

At some point in their lives everyone may experience illness, marriage, divorce, or another event that dramatically affects their normal routine or creates a new environment. Sufferers of Phase of Life Adjustment Anxiety experience a serious emotional jolt when they’re not able to adjust to these changes. The anxiety they feel serves as a trigger for stress that interferes with their daily lives.

Health Anxiety

Health Anxiety Disorder, also known as hypochondria, is the exaggerated fear of physical illness. People who suffer from this condition have the tendency to attribute ordinary physical symptoms to an obscure but serious sickness. Physical sensations like tenderness, dizziness, swelling, and pain are very real to victims of Health Anxiety Disorder despite the fact that typical medical exams will not reveal that anything is medically wrong with them.