It’s Time For You To Feel Better
My approach to psychotherapy is based on your individual needs and the experiences that have shaped your life. I use a combination of trauma-informed, attachment-based, psychodynamic, and relational psychotherapy to help individuals struggling with trauma, depression, anxiety, and related emotional challenges.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy is an insight-oriented approach that helps you understand how past experiences, relationships, and unresolved emotional conflicts may influence your current thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and relationships. By developing greater insight into these patterns, you can begin to understand what may be keeping you stuck and work toward meaningful change
Relational psychotherapy focuses on how your relationships and interpersonal experiences influence the way you see yourself, connect with others, and respond emotionally. I work to create a strong, collaborative, and trusting therapeutic relationship where you can safely explore these patterns, develop greater self-awareness, and build healthier ways of relating to yourself and others.
Healing From Trauma and Painful Experiences
Trauma can affect the way you see yourself, experience relationships, and respond to the world around you. Painful experiences from childhood, difficult relationships, abuse, loss, or other overwhelming events can leave lasting emotional wounds. You may struggle with shame, guilt, anxiety, depression, difficulty trusting others, or a persistent feeling that something from your past continues to affect your life today.
Trauma treatment can help you understand how these experiences have shaped your emotions, beliefs, relationships, and patterns of coping. Using trauma-informed and attachment-based approaches, we will work together to process painful experiences, understand patterns that may be keeping you stuck, and develop greater self-awareness and self-compassion. The goal is not to erase your past, but to help it have less power over how you feel about yourself and how you live your life today.
Finding Your Way Through Depression
Depression can feel like an emotional heaviness that makes even everyday tasks seem difficult. You may experience persistent sadness, loss of motivation, hopelessness, low energy, or a loss of interest in things that once brought you pleasure. Depression can also affect your relationships, work, self-esteem, and the way you see yourself and the world around you.
I use a variety of therapeutic approaches to treat depression and help you better understand the experiences, emotions, and patterns that may be contributing to how you feel. Together, we will work to reduce painful symptoms, develop greater self-awareness and self-compassion, and find practical ways to help you feel more engaged, hopeful, and connected to your life.
Therapy to Treat Anxiety
Anxiety can leave you feeling overwhelmed by persistent worry, fear, and racing thoughts that can be difficult to quiet. You may find yourself overthinking situations, anticipating what might go wrong, struggling to relax, or feeling physically tense and on edge. Over time, anxiety can interfere with your relationships, work, sleep, and your ability to feel present and enjoy your life.
Treatment for anxiety begins with understanding what is driving your worry and fear and recognizing the patterns that keep anxiety going. Together, we will work to challenge unhelpful patterns of thinking, increase your ability to tolerate uncertainty, and develop healthier ways of responding when anxiety takes over. The goal is not to eliminate every anxious thought, but to help you feel calmer, more confident, and less controlled by anxiety.
I Can Also Help With The Following Struggles
Anger
Anxiety
Career Struggles
Codependency
Depression
Disordered Eating
Dysfunctional Relationships
Emptiness
Fear
Fears of Being Judged
Feelings of Inadequacy
Feelings of Inferiority
Frustration Tolerance
Grief
Guilt
Hopelessness
Irritability
Life Transitions
Loss of Loved One
Loss of Relationship
Panic
Poor Body Image
PTSD
Relationship With Food
Self-Blame
Self-Esteem
Sexual Abuse
Shame
Trauma
Unhealthy Boundaries
Work Environment Stress
Worry
Contact Me Today To Talk
Feel free to contact me to schedule your first session. You can reach me directly
at 917-992-7896 or email me at lisam@lisamustillolcsw.com