Anxiety and Depression
Anxiety
Life feels overwhelming.
It’s hard to think straight; focusing on the most mundane tasks is challenging, and your mind keeps taking you to future thoughts.
Understanding worrisome thoughts feels impossible, causing your imagination to run suddenly wild!
Some days, you may feel flooded by those thoughts, so much so that you move into a frozen state. No matter how much you try to bring yourself back into the present, it feels impossible.
You could also feel intense waves of shame and helplessness – creating a sense of stress that makes every aspect of your life difficult to navigate.
Constant worrying is mentally and physically exhausting.
Anxious thoughts move into our bodies, creating tension, compression, and shortness of breath – and the loop continues.
The loop vacillates between a tight body and a restless, racing mind, and suddenly, your stomach aches.
Anxiety carries a message; it’s a signal that requires understanding.
Therapy can help you identify the cause of your anxiety and help you overcome those never-ending signals.
Why Somatic Psychotherapy?
You can’t out-think your feelings as they trigger your anxiety. The nervous system doesn’t respond well to the thinking brain’s strategies of overthinking stress and anxiety.
A bottom-up approach to therapy improves self-regulation and your ability to self-soothe outside of a session.
I will help you find the rhythm and language of your own body that will promote resiliency in your body and mind to navigate the life stressors that trigger anxiety.
Depression
You experience life as a never-ending battle.
You’ve tried everything that usually brings you joy and ease, and nothing works. You feel flat and apathetic.
Maybe it’s familiar, perhaps this is new. Either way, it’s uncomfortable, and you don’t know how to live with this feeling.
You notice it’s even hard to connect with those you love most. Maybe it comes in waves, or sometimes it hits like a tsunami. You can feel a lethargy deep in your bones, your physical body feels stuck, and colors are not so vibrant.
Maybe you’ve even thought, in a fleeting moment, that it would be easier if you weren’t here.
Depression can feel like an endless, hopeless loop, and you feel intensely alone.
Let’s overcome this battle together.
The most important thing to know is that you are not alone. Connection to another human being is key to being able to move through your current state of depression.
I can provide the care and support of a regulated nervous system, heart-to-heart connection, and the space to be fully seen.
Why somatic psychotherapy?
The human body can hold our thoughts, feelings, emotions, and memories.
Through a somatic lens, I will take you through a bottom-up approach. We will begin with where you feel the discomfort in your body and where it resides in your body – allowing us to move forward from there.
Reducing stress in your body through tools such as breathing, stillness, and movement, to name a few, will have a positive and lasting effect on the survival brain.
I will work with you in the now – the present moment – as you receive richer information instead of the repetitive thoughts currently occurring in your mind.
It’s safe to receive support.
The symptoms of anxiety and depression may overlap, but the underlying root causes can vary greatly.
With the use of somatic psychotherapy techniques – we can explore thoroughly the root causes of your anxiety or depression, and I can help you integrate the tools necessary to clear and move through those static thoughts and feelings.
You do not need to navigate this alone. I am here to help and hold space for you. Let me help you move through this pain into a more fluid and expansive somatic state.