Mental Health Issues

 Anxiety can wreak havoc, ravage your existence, and keep you from enjoying what life has to offer. What if it didn't have to be this way? What if you could learn how to understand your anxiety and consequently how to control it? Our treatment includes psychoeducational learning to understand anxiety and its benefits to encourage leaning into instead of running away from anxiety.

 Committing to a long-term relationship is an important step.  However, with any partnership, problems can arise in communication and connection. Let us help you identify common pitfalls that hinder compromise and repair. Couple's counseling can help you strengthen bonds between you, help you learn to turn toward one another and rebuild a strong foundation for love and growth.

Each of us can feel sad from time to time following a difficult situation. However, when the weight of sadness becomes overwhelming and persists, an assessment for a depressive disorder may be needed.  There are different types of depressive disorders, and while there are many similarities among them, each depressive disorder has its own unique set of symptoms. Let us help you learn the difference and how to manage the impact.

 Many individuals can experience symptoms associated with painful and traumatic circumstances. Anxiety, fear, anger and hopelessness are a few emotions that can linger long after a traumatic event has ended. Learn how to identify the symptoms and lingering impacts of trauma, integrating mindfulness practices and/or EMDR techniques for re-assessing the hurt. 

When a loved one is lost, the pain that is felt can be unbearable. Many wonder if the pain and hurt will ever end. How you move through the stages of grief can be dynamic and circular. People grieve differently and your grief is unique to you and the relationship that you had. It is acceptable to take the time that you need without pre-determined expectations on timelines. We can help you make sense of the movement from one stage to the next.

Addiction is a disease.  A substance use disorder occurs when the recurrent use of a substance becomes clinically impairing. We are available to conduct substance use evaluations as part of fitness-for-duty or simply to enhance clinical understanding of your care. Once identified, effective treatment recommendations are discussed to enable lasting recovery and healthy living.

Life Choices providers are able to assist with a wide variety of clinical issues, in addition to those listed above.