MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS

 ANXIETY 

 It is true that we all have some level of anxiety. In fact, anxiety is our natural response to stress. The mission is to get in front of your anxiety. Learn the coping tools to confront and overcome your fears.  

BODY IMAGE  

What you see in the mirror is how you feel inside. Self-evaluation is needed inside to see a clearer picture outside. Explore your self-esteem and understand your weaknesses while enhancing your strengths.

CO-DEPENDENCY

Are you focusing on other people’s problems, feelings, needs, and wants while minimizing and ignoring your own?  Rely on others for identity and self-worth. How to recover, we must consider our own needs and make them a priority. If you fail to do so, you may become unfilled, depleted, and resentful. Evaluate your co-dependency traits and ways to manage.

CAREER COUNSELING  

Feeling stuck in your career or are you too comfortable and unable to determine the steps to find your ideal career. Individual counseling will allow you the opportunity to explore you interests and evaluate your strengths and weaknesses to find your career path. 

DEPRESSION  

Some symptoms of depression may include feelings of sadness, tearfulness, emptiness or hopelessness. Angry outbursts, irritability or frustration, even over small matters, Loss of interest or pleasure in most or all normal activities, such as sex, hobbies or sports, Sleep disturbances. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is utilized to help manage your symptoms. Individual counseling will include (talk therapy, interactive homework, and client-centered therapy, where empathy fosters the relationship.

DIVORCE 

Divorce is a life transition that has a negative stigma associated it. This individual therapy will allow you to identify the transitions and learn to grow from the transition while evaluating your personal strengths in a healthier way.

FORGIVENESS  

Individual Therapy that allows you to be freed from the hurt that was caused to you. Using methods of acceptance and commitment therapy, you are taking on a personal journey ending in finally processing the emotional pain.

INFIDELITY  

Infidelity, cheating physically and/or emotionally takes a toll on you. Do you find yourself living in the past and hard to create a present or future in your relationship? In couples counseling, we explore your roles, values and relearn who each person is in the relationships trying to reach a new happiness, while closing the wounds.

LIFE COACH  

Sometimes a little guidance to ensure you accomplish your tasks and are reaching your goals. I Specialize in understanding your world and how to work in it and not with it. Learn how to outgrow your comfort and live a more fulfilling life.

PARENTING 

 Understanding your new role as a parent and what it entails from physical, emotional, and social development of the child. Learn the tools to remain a proactive parent. 

COUPLES COUNSELING 

 Relationships can be hard, if we are having difficulties understanding roles and expectations. Effective communication tools are learned during individual, couples, and group therapy to empower your intimate relationships. Applying the Gothman techniques, you will encounter understanding trust, commitment, and communication in your relationship.

SELF-ESTEEM  

Are you living and embracing your positive attributes to drive you more? Do you humble yourself often? Let's talk about our self-esteem in individual therapy. A self-exploration journey helps you identify your shortcomings and allows for personal growth. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy will allow you to change your beliefs and understand distortions. 

STRESS  

Stress can be identified as good and bad but necessary. Stress pushes the body out of homeostasis. The important goal in individual therapy is to learn the tools to cope. Learn how to respond to stress which will make a big difference to your overall well-being.

NEGATIVE THINKING 

Ever feeling negative? Can't get yourself to stop your mind from racing. Everything appears to be so bad and you can't see the good. Have you taken a look at your environment lately? Who is feeding your mind physically, mentally, emotionally, socially? Individual therapy allows you to identify and combat distorted thinking. 

HIGH-ACHIEVERS  

Yes, you know who you are and what you want. You accomplish all your goals and no goal is too difficult for you. The anxiety motivates you and keep you on the path. Emotion does not sit well for long because its an distraction. You are responsible, have a hard time saying no, but desire some happiness not based on achievement. You often fail to appreciate the journey leading to your destination. Individual therapy explores mindfulness interventions, allowing you to balance yourself emotionally and mentally. 

WOMEN ISSUES  

The Pressure Women may put on oneself. From gender, race, role expectations, it can become overwhelming. How do we manage the pressures placed by society? In individual and group counseling, Adlerian, Positive Psychology and Cognitive Behavioral Approaches are used to combat the Women Issues. 

We Can Help. Some treatment includes Transitions Therapy, the client

*will need help with transitioning from the familiarity of an environment, learning to process their emotions, understand they can have what they desire in an environment 

*will need to know our surroundings don't make us. It's what's inside of us that tells the story. This client will learn how to use their inner strength to create the life they envision

*will learn an opportunity for the better is deserved and should be taken

*will identify that saving someone does include acknowledgment of their emotions before, during, and after

*will learn to understand a change does require time to adjust, and you will learn tools for adjustment

*will learn to understand you can not choose your family, but the map of life, we have control

*will identify transition doesn't happen overnight, trust is necessary, and the risk for being let down is high, and the distorted thought is hard to remove

*will understand someones' good life may not be good in their eyes until they explore and increase self-worth

Transitions therapy with Dr. Lawrence places you in a supportive environment where therapeutic tools such as Prochaska Stages of Change, Motivational Interviewing, and Outgrow your Comfort self-help model are applied to help create a successful transition for tomorrow. The first step is knowing the thought process has started, jot down what comes to mind:

Step 1:What is the help you need today?

Step 2:How long have you thought about this?

Step 3:Do others acknowledge this problem you are experiencing?

Step 4:Right now, what is the best first step that you can take to show the progress for solving the problem?

Step 5:Try it? 

Step 6:Reflect on the strength you used to do it and feeling about taking action in one sentence?

Great Start, Looking forward to exploring your stages of transition and helping you continue on your journey successfully.