Problems

Abandonment wounds are emotional imprints that form when someone important was emotionally or physically unavailable, inconsistent, or left entirely. These wounds can show up later as fear of being too much, panic when someone pulls away, or difficulty trusting that relationships will last. This is not about being needy, it is about survival strategies built in response to loss, rupture, or neglect. In therapy, we can explore where these wounds began, how they are showing up now, and what it means to feel safe in connection again.

Complex mental health encompasses multifaceted psychological conditions influenced by biological, environmental, and social factors, requiring nuanced assessment, integrated interventions, individualized support, and ongoing collaborative care.

Supervision for mental health providers is a collaborative process offering guidance, oversight, reflective case consultation to ensure clinical competence, ethical practice, growth, and client safety.

Work-related distress is the harmful psychological response to job demands, causing burnout, anxiety, and reduced performance, requiring organizational changes, targeted coping strategies, and supportive interventions.

Substance misuse is the harmful or hazardous use of psychoactive substances, causing health, social, and legal problems, requiring comprehensive prevention, intervention strategies, and supportive treatment.

Sleep is a vital, cyclical process encompassing REM and non-REM phases, enabling restoration, memory consolidation, and cognitive function, regulated by circadian rhythms, essential for health.

Sex and intimacy involve physical and emotional closeness through sexual expression and affectionate bonding, fostering trust, vulnerability, pleasure, connection, communication, and mutual satisfaction in relationships.

Psychedelic integration is the process of making sense of psychedelic experiences through reflection, emotional processing, and behavioral changes, fostering insight, healing, and sustainable personal growth.

Neurodiversity recognizes natural variation in neurological development and cognitive functioning, valuing differences like autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and emphasizing inclusion, strengths-based support, and equitable societal acceptance.

LGBTQ+ related anxiety arises from stigma, discrimination, concealment, causing minority stress, internalized stigma, social isolation, impaired wellbeing; addressed through affirmation, community support, and affirmative therapy.

Health anxiety is excessive worry about having or acquiring serious illness, leading to frequent bodily monitoring, reassurance seeking, distress, and impairment, treated with CBT, mindfulness.

Family therapy is a therapeutic approach involving relatives to improve communication, resolve conflicts, and strengthen relationships, addressing systemic dynamics and fostering resilience, empathy, and support.

Depression is a mood disorder marked by persistent sadness, loss of interest, and impaired functioning, causing physical symptoms and requiring therapeutic, pharmacological, and social support.

Two people in an intimate relationship navigating communication, conflict, intimacy, requiring mutual understanding, empathy, trust, commitment, compromise, resilience, benefiting from collaborative growth and support.

Chronic illness is a long-lasting health condition persisting for months or years, requiring continuous medical care and self-management, impacting quality of life and daily functioning.

Childhood trauma involves distressing experiences during early life—such as abuse, neglect, or loss—that disrupt development, imprint psychological scars, impairing emotional regulation and relational trust.

Body image is an individual’s perception, thoughts, and feelings about their physical appearance, shaped by personal, social, and cultural influences, affecting self-esteem and overall wellbeing.

Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder characterized by alternating manic and depressive episodes, causing significant mood swings, energy fluctuations, impaired functioning, requiring integrated, long-term management.

Anxiety is an emotional state featuring excessive worry, fear, or dread about future events, triggering physical symptoms, impairing functioning, and benefiting from effective coping strategies.

Anger is an emotion marked by irritation, hostility, or antagonism in response to perceived injustice, motivating action but risking aggression and relational harm without regulation.

Addiction is a chronic, relapsing condition characterized by compulsive substance use or behavior despite harmful consequences, disrupting lives, relationships, and brain function, requiring comprehensive treatment.