Emotionally Focused Therapists in 21619
Renewing You Counseling Janet Conner, LCPC
Counselor, LCPC, LPC, RPT
Verified Verified
Chester, MD 21619
Life can be overwhelming and difficult to navigate at times. The pressures of life can leave one feeling overwhelmed, frustrated, anxious, exhausted, stuck, depressed, and discouraged. Taking steps toward stabilizing you or your child's mental health is very important, because you and your child are very important and matter! My primary areas of expertise focus on a Cognitive Behavioral approach to help individuals struggling with anxiety, depression, ADHD, self-esteem issues, communication problems, behavior problems, & relationship problems. I also am a Registered Play Therapist and work with children (4 & up) & adolescents.
Life can be overwhelming and difficult to navigate at times. The pressures of life can leave one feeling overwhelmed, frustrated, anxious, exhausted, stuck, depressed, and discouraged. Taking steps toward stabilizing you or your child's mental health is very important, because you and your child are very important and matter! My primary areas of expertise focus on a Cognitive Behavioral approach to help individuals struggling with anxiety, depression, ADHD, self-esteem issues, communication problems, behavior problems, & relationship problems. I also am a Registered Play Therapist and work with children (4 & up) & adolescents.
Kathleen Traversari
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-C
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Chester, MD 21619
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Ready to stop feeling frustrated with your life, your thoughts, and the people closest to you? Disappointed with therapists that haven't helped in the past? I hear you! Therapy with me is a different experience. I am a solution focused therapist with a specialty in empowering people who have experienced trauma in their lives. By trauma I mean: difficult parents, challenging relationships, and all the forms of losses that never seem to stop comming. Whatever it is... I've got you! I am a trauma certified therapist and I help my clients live the life they want to live, not the life the didn't get a choice to live.
Ready to stop feeling frustrated with your life, your thoughts, and the people closest to you? Disappointed with therapists that haven't helped in the past? I hear you! Therapy with me is a different experience. I am a solution focused therapist with a specialty in empowering people who have experienced trauma in their lives. By trauma I mean: difficult parents, challenging relationships, and all the forms of losses that never seem to stop comming. Whatever it is... I've got you! I am a trauma certified therapist and I help my clients live the life they want to live, not the life the didn't get a choice to live.
Christine Highfill
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, LCPC, NCC
Verified Verified
Chester, MD 21619
Does life feel overwhelming? Your stress is unmanageable. Your relationships need repair. It feels difficult to move forward, and you are struggling. The constant feeling of being overwhelmed leads to physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion. You want to make peace with a painful past. The burden of unmanaged stress affects every facet of your being, affecting your work, health, and relationships. You know something needs to change. Starting therapy is a brave and proactive step toward well-being. I am here to be present to you, to validate your thoughts and feelings with compassion. I will support your healing.
Does life feel overwhelming? Your stress is unmanageable. Your relationships need repair. It feels difficult to move forward, and you are struggling. The constant feeling of being overwhelmed leads to physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion. You want to make peace with a painful past. The burden of unmanaged stress affects every facet of your being, affecting your work, health, and relationships. You know something needs to change. Starting therapy is a brave and proactive step toward well-being. I am here to be present to you, to validate your thoughts and feelings with compassion. I will support your healing.
Debbie Kidwell
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, MS, LCPC, NCC
Verified Verified
8 Endorsed
Chester, MD 21619
I am a licensed clinical professional counselor that sepecializes in individual short-term and long-term psychotherapy. I work with both individuals and couples and have offices in Annapolis, and the Eastern Shore of Maryland. I specialize in working with clients who experience overwhelming stress, adjustment disorders, debilitating anxiety, resistant depression, low self-esteem, grief, and loss. I incorporate a blending of strong clinical skills and spirituality where mind, body, and spirit are cared for in a unique way. The goal is personal growth, and hope is for long-term healing.
I am a licensed clinical professional counselor that sepecializes in individual short-term and long-term psychotherapy. I work with both individuals and couples and have offices in Annapolis, and the Eastern Shore of Maryland. I specialize in working with clients who experience overwhelming stress, adjustment disorders, debilitating anxiety, resistant depression, low self-esteem, grief, and loss. I incorporate a blending of strong clinical skills and spirituality where mind, body, and spirit are cared for in a unique way. The goal is personal growth, and hope is for long-term healing.
Micheline Shields
Counselor, LCPC
Verified Verified
Chester, MD 21619 (Online Only)
By changing our inner self-talk & learning skills to better deal with life stressors and past traumas, we can begin to live a more peaceful life. I am passionate and dedicated to assisting all of my clients find more peace in their lives. I have experience providing counseling services to adults and adolescents with a variety of other presenting concerns such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, anger, family conflict, self harm, and trauma.
By changing our inner self-talk & learning skills to better deal with life stressors and past traumas, we can begin to live a more peaceful life. I am passionate and dedicated to assisting all of my clients find more peace in their lives. I have experience providing counseling services to adults and adolescents with a variety of other presenting concerns such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, anger, family conflict, self harm, and trauma.
Casey Gunther
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-C
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Chester, MD 21619
You are longing for a better and more fulfilling life, yet there is something standing in your way. Depression and/or anxiety can feel overwhelming, debilitating, and out of control. They can impair your daily life and inhibit you from functioning at your full potential. It is my goal to help you realize your strengths, and utilize them in order to create the life that you desire. Together, we will grow your skill set so that you can make positive changes and cope with the difficult aspects of life. I will provide you with a compassionate, warm, non-judgemental, and confidential space in order to evoke change, growth, and healing.
You are longing for a better and more fulfilling life, yet there is something standing in your way. Depression and/or anxiety can feel overwhelming, debilitating, and out of control. They can impair your daily life and inhibit you from functioning at your full potential. It is my goal to help you realize your strengths, and utilize them in order to create the life that you desire. Together, we will grow your skill set so that you can make positive changes and cope with the difficult aspects of life. I will provide you with a compassionate, warm, non-judgemental, and confidential space in order to evoke change, growth, and healing.
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Emotionally Focused Therapists
Who is emotionally focused therapy for?
Emotionally focused therapy (EFT) is for couples who are emotionally distressed, stuck in an unsatisfying relationship pattern or feeling deeply alienated. They may even believe the relationship is beyond repair. Very often, the partners display intense anger, fear, grief, loss of trust, or a sense of betrayal in the relationship. In addition, EFT is helpful to couples and individuals who have difficulty expressing emotions and those who have trouble regulating emotions.
Why do people need emotionally focused therapy?
People need emotionally focused therapy because the need for others is built into the brain, but the pressures of daily life can erode feelings of love, and couples often do not have the skills to find their way back to the comfort of each other. Instead, they may be stuck in repetitive patterns of anger, fear, grief, loss of trust, or a sense of betrayal. Emotionally focused therapy regards such strong negative feelings as expressions of protest over the loss of connection and turns them into pathways of reconnection.
What happens in emotionally focused therapy?
Over the course of eight to 20 weekly sessions, couples de-escalate their negative emotional reactivity to one another so that they can listen to each other and be responsive to each other’s needs. Then the deep emotional and physical bond is restored, giving partners a sense of comfort and security, which they can use to solve whatever problems come their way. The therapist plays an active role, helping partners understand how anger and withdrawal are actually misguided cries for connection.
What problems does emotionally focused therapy treat?
EFT is designed to help couples stuck in dysfunctional relationship patterns regain closeness and rebuild their relationship. Typically, such couples experience considerable distress, with partners feeling alienated and distrustful of one another, not certain their relationship can survive. EFT is also helpful to individuals experiencing attachment-related fears of loss; it helps them learn to use their fears as a way of eliciting the closeness they desire.