Therapy Heals

Therapies We Offer The Morehead Community

Therapy can be a support for anyone.  Some patients will see us to help them cope with the day to day stressors that are a part of everyone’s life.  Others may come to us for help coping with trauma, grief/loss of loved one, or emotional/behavioral challenges that are impacting their quality of life.  

It is important that all of our patients understand that our office is a judgement free zone. Everything you share with your therapist is confidential.  

Specialty Therapies We Offer

Mood and Anxiety Therapy

Mood disorders can be very serious and affect your quality of life if not treated. If you have a mood disorder, your general emotional state or mood is inconsistent with your circumstances. This can impact your ability to function. You may feel extremely sad or depressed. You may have unexplainable anger, or rapid changes between highs and lows in your emotional life. 

There are multiple ways of therapeutically addressing severe changes in moods and anxiety. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy has been shown to help treat mood and anxiety disorders. It is a type of psychotherapy in which negative patterns of thought about yourself and the world around you are challenged in order to alter the unwanted behavior patterns, moods, and emotions. 

It also helps people experiencing grief, trauma, and adjustment difficulties resulting from life changes

Trauma Informed Therapy

Trauma informed therapy recognizes and emphasizes understanding how the traumatic experience impacts a person’s mental, behavioral, emotional, and physical well-being. These types of therapy are rooted in the understanding of the connections between trauma experience and the person’s emotional and behavioral responses.

There are three types of trauma a child,  adolescent, or adult can experience. 

  1. Acute trauma is a result of a single incident.
  2. Chronic trauma is repeated and prolonged such as domestic violence or abuse.
  3. Complex trauma is exposure to multiple traumatic events, often of an invasive, interpersonal nature.

Therapy can help the person begin to heal from trauma and promote healthy ways of dealing with past trauma.

Anxiety/Panic, Phobias, Addiction, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Eye Movement and Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR) has been shown to greatly help people who are suffering from anxiety disorders, panic disorders, and phobias.  Some studies show a 80% reduction in PTSD symptoms. For more information click here.
 
To see if EMDR might be the right choice for you please contact us to set up a phone call. 
 

Depression, Bipolar Disorder

When being used to treat depression, anxiety, or mood disorders, Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used to regulate negative emotion and encourage mindfulness, develop tolerance skills, and interpersonal skills.  

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) was developed by Marsha Linehan.

Life Changes and Transitions

Life is consistently changing and some of those changes can be very difficult to work through. Some of the most common changes that we work with include loss of a loved one, unemployment, transitioning to college, divorce and many others.

*Note: while we are completely open to all of the LGBTQA+ community and welcome them with open arms, we are not presently qualified or trained to provide gender transition therapy. If this is something you are looking for please click here.