Anxiety
Is excessive worry getting in the way of you living your best life? Everyone gets a case nerves from time to time, but when anxiety keeps you from doing the things you want to do—or getting a good night’s sleep—you may have an anxiety disorder.
Depression
Although we all get the blues from time to time, depression moves in and doesn’t leave. It’s a serious condition that has a devastating impact on every part of a person’s life. The depressive disorders are more wide-ranging in their effects and much more severe than temporary episodes of a sad mood.
Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder, or manic-depression as it used to be called, is a psychological disorder that involves periods of severe depression with occasional bouts of an unusual and disruptive elevated mood. Occasional moodiness isn’t a bipolar disorder, which is both enduring and devastating.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
No one’s “a little” OCD and OCD isn’t mere fussiness. Checking to make sure your doors are unlocked before going to bed doesn’t mean you’ve got OCD. Checking them exactly 10 times a night in a precise, unchanging order and being unable to sleep unless you perform that ritual exactly is, however, typical behavior for a person with OCD. Obsessions are unwanted, uncontrollable thoughts and compulsions are irresistible behaviors people perform to reduce intolerable levels of anxiety.
PTSD
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder follows a terrifying event in which a person feared for their life or suffered violence or severe injury. PTSD can happen even if a person witnessed the event and wasn’t directly involved in it. Psychological trauma can also provoke PTSD. PTSD typically involves negative, depressed mood, flashbacks or intrusive memories and elevated levels of anxiety. People with post-traumatic stress disorder also tend to startle easily, stay on-guard at all times, and may have trouble sleeping.
Panic Disorder
Panic disorder involves having episodic panic attacks, which are sudden bouts of intense fear that cause serious physical symptoms like chest pain, rapid heartbeat, hyperventilating, cramps, shakes and a sense of impending death. Panic attacks can strike from out of the blue, for no reason at all. Panic attacks that occur often enough to disrupt a person’s life are the hallmark of panic disorder.
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia involves a person being disconnected from reality with hallucinations, delusions (unshakable beliefs that are not true), problems feeling and expressing emotions or little emotion and problems with memory. It takes all of these problems for schizophrenia to be considered, and it’s important to note that the severity of each has to be enough to detach the person from functioning.
Individual Therapy
Individual therapy helps clients work through difficult times by exploring behaviors, feelings, and thoughts one-on-one with a professionally trained therapist. Therapy allows clients to identify aspects of their lives they want to change, find goals to reach or nurture better relationships with others. Therapy gives you a safe, confidential space to help you break down the barriers that are holding you back.
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400 S. Jefferson St., Ste 204
Spokane, WA 99204
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Washington
400 S. Jefferson St., Suite 204
Spokane, WA 99204
Call Us
(509) 342-6592
Office Hours
Tue – Thu: 8 am – 5 pm
Fax
(509) 318-2020