I provide counseling (also known as therapy) for women with anxiety in Nashville, TN.
If you’re considering counseling, you may be feeling anxious, agitated, restless, or worried; or you may feel sad, tired, unmotivated, or withdrawn. You’re probably distressed and in pain. You may even feel numb — like you’ve lost a sense of connection to yourself, to others, and/or to purpose in life. You may be engaging in negative, limiting self-talk, and hold beliefs about yourself that are hurtful and ultimately unhelpful. You may be thinking: “I’m not doing well,” or, “There’s something wrong with me,” or, “I’m just not where (or who) I thought I would be,” or “I’ve lost myself, or my voice, somehow.” Let me assure you — change is possible.
As a therapist, I help you work on the parts of life that are painful or feel intolerable. I listen for challenges and struggles and strengths and resources, and offer guidance for how to better manage. I help you to discover how your unique history may be influencing your life in the present and your desired future. I pay close attention to your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, both as you describe them and as they arise in the moment with me. I work to help you gain insight and understanding, explore and learn from your emotional experience, understand and reduce behaviors that are hurtful to you, and strengthen your sense of self.
Some of my overarching goals in therapy are to help you:
Increase self-compassion, self-awareness, and insight
Manage difficult emotions, including fear, sadness, guilt, numbness, disconnectedness, etc.
Attend to body process and breathing (an important regulator of energy and emotions)
Live in the present moment, in the here-and-now (rather than in the future or the past)
Identify limiting and unhelpful self-talk, and core beliefs that keep this in place
Tend to unfinished business that may be keeping you stuck
Make meaning out of what happens (and what has happened, and what you want to happen) in your life
Develop additional strategies for engaging in life Improve your relationships with yourself and with others
This takes work, but I believe you can do it! I’m passionate about joining women on their journeys, and have more than fifteen years of experience helping clients achieve growth through therapy. I know it’s somehow backward, but I believe that learning to be who you are is the path to change.
