Therapists in 89701

Do you feel like you have a hard time controlling your emotions? Do you have trouble expressing yourself or reacting destructively? If your emotions are getting in the way of your relationships, school, career, or overall life satisfaction, you might be thinking it’s time to do something about it. Think of your feelings like helpful messengers that can give you information about your needs and your values. They can provide you with the guidance towards a more meaningful and satisfying life if you learn to understand them.

Are you tired of being on edge? Are you all too quick to anger? Are you suffering from insomnia or nightmares? Are you plagued by flashbacks or unsettling thoughts? Are you unable to experience enjoyment and contentment in your life? Do you find difficulty recognizing yourself and your behaviors? Have you talked about your experiences only to spend more time explaining your language or meaning than being understood? If this describes you, please read on because help is most definitely available.

I work effectively with most of the concerns folks bring to my office. My clients note how kind, intuitive and helpful my work with them has been. If you are wanting to make particular changes in your life, now, you will find out how much easier and faster that can happen with the methods I use. I enjoy and am effective working with individuals, couples, and families who want more than what their past history suggests is possible for them. Explore what your compelling future can be and how to bring it about.

My ideal clients are those who want freedom from codependency, dependent personality traits, have experienced spiritual abuse, and are tired of feeling overwhelmed by the world and others. My ideal clients are looking for what they don't have, a person that really listens to them, listens to understand their experience, and can validate their emotional experiences.

As this quote describes, "Storms make oaks take deeper root." Taking a closer look at a difficult experience takes courage. Whether to manage a recent event, like a loss, or to address an issue that continues to impact your sense of worth, therapy can be a helpful process. I feel especially attuned to issues of trauma, depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, ruminating thoughts, grief and social anxiety. I provide a warm, compassionate, and nonjudgmental approach to help you grow from your struggles, utilizing your many strengths to build resilience to heal from pain to move into kindness and love for yourself and others.

Connections Behavioral Health Center is an outpatient behavioral health clinic. Connections has psychotherapists, a psychiatrist for medication management, and a neurofeedback lab for treatment of persons of all ages and mental health diagnoses.

I see our work together as a very active collaboration. From the moment we meet, we are working together to identify what we’re working toward, what has gotten in the way, and what supports and skills you need to better manage your emotional life. Whatever your current struggle is, I focus on “progress, not perfection.”

Sometimes life can feel so overwhelming, and when you don’t have time or space for yourself to process, the burden can feel too big to bare. Stress, overwhelming emotions, relationship difficulties, and other life stressors can prevent us from experiencing joy and leave us feeling fearful and hopeless. Many don’t know where to start when it comes to processing difficult emotions, overcoming trauma and loss, or opening up to someone for the first time.

Whether your problems are big or small, simple or complex, new or chronic, I am here to work together at a pace you are comfortable with to identify and meet your goals. You may have barriers to creating the life you want in the form of complicated life stressors, depression, anxiety, grief, substance use issues, PTSD or other challenges. I use an eclectic approach of behavioral therapies such as Cognitive Behavioral, Dialectical Behavioral, and Acceptance and Commitment therapy as well as Mindfulness-based and somatic approaches to tend to the bodily sensations that come with many mental health conditions.

If you are struggling with anxiety, depression, or sustaining sobriety and would like to learn skills to navigate these challenges I am the right therapist for you. I can also provided court approved Drug and Alcohol Assessments as well as Level I treatment.

The teen and pre-teen years are some of the best of a person's life. They can also be some of the most challenging. Teens are in a developmental period where distancing from the wisdom of parents is natural, but also scary. When that distance becomes more of a wedge, that's where I can help. Adolescents don't always have the ability to make good decisions for themselves AND they don't like others making those decisions for them. Therapy can be a place of connection and guidance that both children and their families are looking for.

You may be here, if you are struggling to navigate your mental health and the impacts it is having on your life. For the past three years I worked with adults living with severe and chronic mental illness in rural Eastern Washington, providing supportive services to help individuals manage their symptoms, find meaningful community connections, and build lives worth living, unique to each person. I look forward to continuing this work here in Western Nevada.

Let’s work on creating change together- so that you can develop confidence, learn to cope with worrisome thoughts, and show yourself and others true compassion. I love collaborating with clients to identify resources and build solutions. I work with teens and adults who find it easy to show compassion to others, but struggle to show themselves the same level of kindness. They are often helpers, perfectionists, people-pleasers, highly sensitive people, and over-thinkers.

Is your child out of control? Tantrums? Defiance? Suspensions from school? Kristi is a supportive, honest and compassionate professional who specializes in working with children and their families to regain balance at home and school. She believes that as humans we all come to a place where we need support and guidance. Sometimes a professional with knowledge and experience in child development, attachment difficulties and the importance of play is just what you need. That's where Kristi and the staff at Journey Within can help!!

Life's journey can be rough, but no one has to do it alone. My goal is to help clients find hope, healing, and peace while making the changes they want to see in their lives. While accomplishing this is never easy, it can be done by focusing on clients' strengths, learning self-compassion, and building a solid support system.

Therapy is built upon a safe and trusted relationship between the client and therapist. This is my primary goal to create that environment for your therapy journey. I believe that having someone outside of ourselves, without bias can facilitate one's healing. I provide a kind and gentle approach in order to support clients. My goal is to help clients to make lifestyle changes, and gain tools, all while gaining insight and healing towards their past and present to better their future, mental health, relationship with self, and interpersonal relationships.