Release your past. Reach your potential.

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Although anxiety is a natural threat response sometimes we react to the "threat" of toast burning as if the house was burning down. Intrusive anxiety, phobias and panic are rooted in past experiences. We process the underlying reasons that fuel these disturbing symptoms and ask, "Is this true or is it training (learned behavior)?" 

Depression is often rooted in unresolved trauma or painful, distressing life events. We dismiss events because "it wasn't that bad or others have it worse," but it doesn't work that way. Invalidating and minimizing is a survival strategy from youth that is now unhelpful and hurtful.  Understand your adaptive strengths and move toward health and healing.  

Just because change is natural doesn't mean it's comfortable or feels natural. Divorce, loss, career shifts, empty nest and retirement can feel overwhelming. Perhaps you've helped everyone else in your life and now its time to focus on you. Remember the good times, make sense of the not so good, and gain the clarity and confidence to enjoy what's ahead.