Anxiety and Depression
From the Outside, Your Life Looks Fine
Your work gets done, your family is taken care of, and the texts get answered.
On the inside, you’re exhausted.
Nobody has asked, because nothing about your life looks wrong.
When Did Your Own Life Stop Feeling Like Yours?
Why Getting It Together Hasn’t Worked for You
Somewhere along the way you started asking yourself why you can’t just get it together.
Anxiety and depression are rarely about the present alone.
What you’re carrying right now has a history, and effort aimed only at today keeps coming up short.
Trace Your Past Forward to Where You Want to Be
I tell every new client the same thing, and I’ll tell you: I’m here to understand what you went through in your past, how it could be affecting your present, and then to help you get to where you want to be.
We go to the past for understanding, and we don’t stay there.
The present is where the practical work happens, because that’s where the exhaustion actually lives.
Forward is yours to define, which is why I ask what you want your life to look like before I suggest anything.
Learn Which of Your Thoughts You Can Talk Back To
In the middle of that work, we’ll start sorting your thoughts into the ones helping you and the ones running the show.
Underneath the loudest ones sits a belief about yourself you never chose and have never had reason to question.
Once you can hear that belief out loud, you can answer it.
This work takes six to twelve months for most people, and I’d rather tell you that now than let you think something’s wrong with you for needing the time.
When the Inside of Your Life Matches the Outside
The work still gets done, and the people who need you still have you.
It costs what it’s supposed to cost now, instead of everything you have.
Hard days still come, and they stop deciding what the rest of your life looks like.
And when someone asks how you’re doing, you have a real answer for them.
Start With One Message
Tell me what’s been going on, and we’ll start where I always start: your past, your present, and where you want to be.
I’m licensed in Texas and certified in trauma work, which in practice means I know how to take you back through your history without stranding you there. All of it happens online, anywhere in the state.
Email me at traci@bessiescreekcounseling.com, text me at (346) 307-6264, or send a note through my Psychology Today profile.
Find the Relief You Deserve
If you recognized yourself anywhere on this page, that recognition counts for more than it feels like it does. It's what comes before anything else moves.
Email me at traci@bessiescreekcounseling.com, or send a message through my Psychology Today profile, and tell me a little about what brought you here. I'd be glad to do this part with you.
Find the relief you deserve by requesting an appointment today.
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