Anxiety and Depression
Some Days You Can’t Slow Down, Other Days You Can’t Get Going
Your mind won’t quiet down long enough to let you sleep. It runs ahead to everything that could go wrong.
You sit through social situations you feel you should be able to enjoy. You leave having only survived them.
Some days, there’s no escape from your own thoughts.
Then your body joins in: chest pain, a racing heart while you’re sitting perfectly still, sweating, nausea, and a faintness that arrives out of nowhere.
Whole stretches of time go missing. Concentrating on anything, remembering anything, costs more than you have.
Then Everything Feels Heavy
Then the other days come.
The motivation is gone.
Your body feels heavy and sad.
Getting to the store or making yourself something to eat takes everything you’ve got.
Your Energy Only Has Two Settings
Anxiety lives in the future.
Depression lives in the past.
Anxiety is hyperarousal, your energy turned all the way up and left there. Depression turns that same energy all the way down. The chaos before the crash.
Both are your body doing what it learned to do, running from something or shutting down to keep you safe.
Come Back to the Present and Find Yourself
Living in the present is where you find yourself again.
That sounds simple until your whole system has decided the present isn’t a safe place to be.
Together, we’ll work with both energies, the one turned up and the one turned down.
I’ll help you find the root of the pattern. Then we’ll rewire it.
What opens up on the other side of that work is room: room for happiness, for contentedness, for creativity.
Your energy stops being something that happens to you. You start using it on purpose.
Your Calm Will Show Up in the Rooms You Used to Dread
You’ll know therapy is working when calm arrives before you’ve done anything to earn it.
The constant doing eases. So does the belief that you have to keep doing to be loved or safe.
Social situations start to hold some excitement again. Breaking the cycle of avoidance is the freedom to go anywhere and the confidence to be who you are.
Walking into a room stops feeling like you’re the problem. You have the right to be there, like everyone else. And you’ll begin to see where you end and they begin.
Learn to Be Comfortable with the Opposite
When you’ve suffered with anxiety and depression long enough, they become your comfort.
Recovery asks you to learn the opposite. The opposite is unfamiliar before it’s ever pleasant.
The best part comes after: the comfort you feel inside yourself, drawn from your own resources.
You’ve believed you can’t function when someone is angry with you or doesn’t like you. Therapy teaches otherwise.
Your First Step Back to the Present
Trust the process, and trust the relationship we’ll build together. That relationship is what carries you to the new you.
When you want to start, email me or send a message through this website.
The first time we talk is low-pressure, mostly you telling me what’s going on so we can both see whether this fits.
After that, I’ll send over some paperwork. Then we’ll get your first appointment on the calendar.
My practice is entirely online, open to anyone in Wyoming.
I’d be glad to meet you.
Asking for Help Is the First Step
Asking for help is the first and sometimes hardest step toward healing. There’s no right way to do it. Reach out however feels most comfortable to you, and we’ll set up a time to meet, talk, and see whether we feel that connection.
Therapy should feel welcomed and safe, never dreaded. Whoever you are and whoever you love, you're welcome here exactly as you are.
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I respond to all messages within 48 hours.