Douglaston Psychotherapy provides depression counseling or psychotherapy for depression, and also provides counseling or therapy for anxiety. Anxiety and depression are among the most common reasons people seek help from mental health treatment. This is because both anxiety and depression cause a host of painful symptoms, many of which have entered the mainstream, either through the media, through politics, or through the growing number of laws dedicated to improving accessibility to mental health care. Certainly, anxiety and depression can no longer be said to carry the same shameful stigmas that they used to. And, both are highly amenable to therapy.
What is anxiety? A person who suffers from anxiety has a constant anticipation that something bad will happen. Anxiety, therefore, creates profound distress which is usually not amenable to attempts at self-regulation or self-soothing. When anxiety becomes more severe, it can lead to anxiety attacks or more severe forms of anxiety disorders called panic attacks in which a person suffers palpitations, sweating, phobias, and a real and terrifying fear of dying. Many things can trigger the kind of anxiousness that requires therapy, including trauma, abuse and other serious medical conditions.
Depression is another of the most widely cited reasons for seeking therapy. What is depression? Some signs or symptoms of depression are persistent sadness, low self-esteem, poor appetite or overeating, sleep disturbances, fatigue, and feelings of hopelessness. It can lead to isolation, social conflict, substance abuse and physical distress. Depression, even severe depression, can be triggered by a major life event such as loss or injury or the birth of a child, or by a more subtle shift in circumstances such as the recall of a previously repressed, painful memory.
Both anxiety and depression can also be the source of additional problems, such as uncontrollable anger, self-mutilating or other self-destructive behaviors, as well as a sense of profound loneliness. Tragically, anxious or depressed individuals sometimes hold onto a false belief that their longings for comfort are stupid or childish.
Licensed Therapist for the Treatment of Social Anxiety, Panic Attacks and Severe Depression
Anxiety and depression are highly amenable to therapy. Since good therapy begins by providing compassionate human understanding, therapy can alleviate the loneliness and terror that often makes these two disorders so painful. Severe forms of either disorder may also require medication, in addition to the support from a sensitive professional.
Douglaston Psychotherapy provides help for anxiety and for dealing with anxiety, as well as depression counseling.
Lisa Lempel-Sander is a New York State licensed psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in private practice for over 20 years. Her office, Douglaston Psychotherapy, is located between Little Neck, New York and Bayside, New York, in northern Queens. It is also close to Great Neck, Manhasset and New Hyde Park. The office is easily reached from the Long Island Expressway and from the Cross Island Expressway. It is discretely located away from the center of town, with free, on-street parking. A private waiting room with private entrance is large enough to accommodate a group or family.
Lisa Lempel-Sander is a licensed Douglaston NY Therapist with a Psychotherapy practice for short and long term therapy. Her main areas of practice include: Depression Counseling for Depression and Anxiety Disorders, Eating Disorder Therapy for the Treatment of Anorexia, Bulimia and other Eating Disorders, Couples Therapy, and Phobia Treatment for Social Phobias, Agoraphobia and Panic Attacks.
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