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Anxiety & Depression Help
Garden City Therapy LCSW
Call 516 828 2622 |[email protected]
Garden City Therapy PLLC
233 7th Street. STE 200 Garden City, NY 11530
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Serving Garden City and surrounding Long Island communities.
Many people seek therapy when facing anxiety, depression, or challenges with life adjustments, expressing and managing feelings, self-regard and a variety of issues. These struggles can feel isolating, overwhelming, and difficult to navigate alone. Friends and others can be a big help but at times you may not want to share as much with or they do not know how to help and it is nice to have some focus in you alone.
In therapy, you will find a safe and compassionate space to explore without judgment and work toward identifying the roots of your struggles, building healthier perspectives, and developing coping skills that bring relief and longer lasting change.
Psychotherapy is a collaborative process with conversations that foster clarity, insight, and healing. You and your therapist work as partners in understanding your unique story, your challenges, and your strengths. Through this supportive relationship, old patterns can be recognized and transformed, making way for new, more adaptive ways of living and relating.
The experience of being truly heard and understood often provides comfort and reassurance in itself. Over time, many clients describe feeling less burdened, more resilient, and more empowered in their daily lives. Therapy can offer the support and tools needed for continued growth, helping you navigate not only the challenges you are facing now, but also those that may arise in the future.
Whether you want help coping with a temporary or ongoing issue, need to vent and sort through your feelings, or would like some guidance on deciding where and how to start in approaching your life circumstances, we are here.
Difficult experiences as well as normal human behavior can cause people to create defense mechanisms that can initially be useful and adaptive in the face of trauma or stress, but has the potential to
become destructive if it is overused or has come to replace the ability to process and cope with painful thoughts and feelings due to a traumatic aspect.
This is often times at the root of anxiety, depression, relationship problems, insecurities, loneliness and other many other issues.
We believe that the combination of a trusting therapeutic alliance, discovery, understanding, and practical advice leads to the most beneficial outcome and helps in both the short and long term.
Reaching out is a big step and contacting a therapist is an accomplishment and sign of progress and growth in itself.
Mental health wellness often involves a multi-faceted approach that can include therapy, lifestyle changes, and coping skills. Here's a general overview:
-Identify and challenge negative or ineffective thought patterns.
-Emotional regulation and interpersonal effectiveness.
-Lifestyle changes such as physical activity which releases endorphins and naturally elevates mood, as well as paying attention to nutrition and sleep.
Developing coping skills
-Maintaining a supportive social network can provide emotional sustenance.
-Creative outlets such as writing, painting, or other activities can offer an emotional release.
It's important to consult a mental healthcare provider for a diagnosis and personalized plan suitable for your specific needs.
Approaches to Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy, also known as talk therapy or counseling includes various treatment approaches and our clinicians pull from and utilize the following modalities which have show be effective:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Helps identify and change distorted thought patterns and behaviors that contribute to symptoms.
- Utilizes exercises and discussions to examine and address the "automatic" negative thoughts.
-Goal-setting and actionable steps are often a part of this therapy.
Interpersonal, Relational, and Psychodynamic Therapy
-Addresses interpersonal issues like unresolved feelings, role transitions, and relationship difficulties and examines attachment styles.
-Helps develop insight, improve communication skills and increase self-esteem.
-Explores unconscious processes and unresolved past issues that may be contributing symptoms.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
-Teaches skills for emotional regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, distress tolerance, and mindfulness.
Each modality has its own approach and may be used in combination with others, depending on yours specific needs and circumstances as well as your clinician's discretion and where you are in your therapy.
Therapy is successful at treating symptoms, whether it is used on its own or along with medication management by psychiatrist or nurse practitioner and we would be glad to try to help you find help for a psychiatry consultation as well.
Out clinical treatment team works with clients anywhere in Long Island and our therapists looks forward to getting to know you and working towards your goals.
Garden City Therapists Providing Depression, Anxiety
Grief, Trauma and Wellness Counseling
We accept many commercial and managed Medicaid plans,
including Healthfirst, UHC, Fidelis, and Anthem BCBS.
