Anxiety

For anxiety disorders such as General Anxiety Disorder, OCD, Panic Attacks, and Social Anxiety, we work with you to customize a plan for managing anxiety. Together we will work on identifying your root causes for anxiety, as well as daily stressors and triggers. The goal-oriented, evidenced based treatment methods we utilize will empower and enable you to rejoin your personal and professional life as a more present, and confident you. 

45 min or 60 min 

Depression

Depression can feel all-encompassing and overwhelming. It can feel inexplicable, leading to frustration and hopelessness. Together, we will explore your thought patterns, feelings, and behaviors and assist your understanding that it is not permanent, and it is highly treatable. We will identify a plan that will help you reframe, and manage your emotions, as well as develop skills that will allow you to attain the quality of life you seek.  

45 min or 60 min   

Family Dynamics

Family Dynamics are complicated. Family systems therapy is a form of psychotherapy that helps individuals resolve their problems in the context of their family units, where many issues are likely to begin. We help you to better understand the group dynamic and how actions of each individual affect each other and the family unit as a whole. One of the most important premises of family systems therapy is that what happens to one member of a family happens to everyone in the family.

45 min or 60 min 

Eating Disorders

Eating disorders originate as a result of various psychosocial factors in an individual’s development. Eating Disorders are not primarily about food; rather, the relationship to food is a manifestation of underlying emotional distress. Eating disorders are put into place as a self-regulatory function, that a person utilizes to establish a sense of relief and control in the midst of internal turmoil. We will assist you in developing a healthier relationship with food and your body, and a more adaptive expression of feelings. We also emphasize the development of coping skills for the underlying emotional and psychological issues that create risk for relapse and barriers to recovery.

45 min or 60 min 

Relationships

Both romantic relationships, and friendships are hard work as they require meeting the needs of two people, each with their own emotional challenges and attachment styles. At HLW Therapy, we can help increase your understanding of your wants and needs, and identify the maladaptive patterns and communication that keep you stuck. Through guidance and feedback, we integrate various approaches to help you understand your triggers and how to more effectively manage your emotions and communicate your needs to achieve the result you want. We will empower you to utilize this to prevent unhelpful reactions, and assist you in achieving healthy relationship dynamics. 

45 min or 60 min 

Trauma

Trauma is the experience of severe psychological distress following either “a ‘big T’ trauma” such as a terrible or life-threatening event, or “little ‘T’ traumas” which are more subtle events that harm or neglect one’s emotional needs consistently over time (mostly originating in childhood). Sufferers may develop emotional disturbances such as extreme anxiety, anger, sadness, survivor’s guilt, or PTSD. They may experience ongoing problems with sleep or physical pain, encounter turbulence in their personal and professional relationships, and feel a diminished sense of self-worth due to the overwhelming amount of stress.

Although the instigating event may overpower coping resources available at the time, it is nevertheless possible to develop healthy ways of coping with the experience and diminishing its effects. 

45 min or 60 min