Anxiety

This is characterized by excessive worry, nervousness, or stress; and can include sudden and intense feelings of panic. Anyone can experience anxiety, but for some people the anxiety takes over and interferes with a person's daily functioning and sense of wellbeing. This can also include intense discomfort in social settings (social anxiety).

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Having unwanted, intrusive and often repetitive thoughts that can cause extreme anxiety and distress. Some people also have compulsions or carry out rituals aimed at reducing the anxiety surrounding the thoughts or worries. Not everyone with OCD has outward compulsions or rituals. 

Depression

Having feelings of hopelessness, low motivation and energy, sadness, irritability, sleep disturbance, and loss of interest and pleasure in life.

Relationship Issues

Difficulty understanding one’s wants and needs in relationships or understanding the wants and needs of a partner; difficulty with having needs met or with meeting the needs of a partner. 

Trauma

This can be caused by threatening or scary events, such as witnessing accidents or experiencing sexual, verbal, emotional, or physical abuse. It can also happen as a result of not having certain needs met, whether physical or emotional. 

Addiction

Addiction is the inability to stop using a substance or engaging in a behavior even though it may cause psychological or physical harm. It is not limited to drugs or alcohol, and very often goes hand in hand with other emotional challenges that a person experiences. It is important to work on not only the addictive behaviors, but on underlying issues that are often masked by the behaviors.

Couples Therapy

Couples therapy can help you work on your relationship. Your therapist can help you express your feelings, discuss issues with your partner, and resolve conflicts. It can help improve understanding, respect, affection, and intimacy between you and your partner, which can help you be happier together. It can be helpful at any stage of your relationship and there is no need to have it be a "last resort."

Family Therapy

Family therapy is a type of treatment designed to help family members build stronger relationships, improve communication, and manage conflicts within the family system. By improving how family members interact and relate to one another, family therapy can help to bring about change in close relationships.

Existential Crisis and Religious Trauma 

An existential crisis is a period of anxiety and inner conflict over questions about identity, meaning, and purpose. It often coincides with questions about spirituality and death.  It can be triggered by transitions in life, such as adolescence, midlife, or illness. It can also be triggered as a result of religious trauma or cult-like experiences. It can even be the result of personal trauma or what some refer to as collective trauma, which includes current events that affect groups of people or society as a whole.