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Anxiety & Depression Help
Garden City Therapy LCSW
[email protected] | OPENINGS now available
Garden City Therapy PLLC 516 828 - 2622
233 7th Street. STE 200 Garden City, NY 11530
Stress Management
Psychotherapy treatment to develop
coping strategies and manage symptoms
It’s Hard to Fix a Hole in
the Ceiling when it’s Raining™
Sometimes people try to “fix” things in the very moment everything feels like it’s falling apart.
When emotions are intense, when symptoms spike, or when life feels overwhelming, it’s natural to want immediate solutions or to patch the ceiling while the storm is still coming down.
But the truth is you can’t adequately repair a ceiling in the middle of a downpour. You can only catch the water and wait for the rain to ease.
Therapy works the same way.
In our work together, the first step isn’t to climb the ladder and start hammering. It’s to steady the situation, contain the leak, and help you get through the storm safely.
We help you:
stabilize what’s pouring in
build tools to cope with the immediate distress
hold what feels too heavy to hold alone
create enough calm inside you so real repair becomes possible
And when the weather quiets, when you feel more regulated, grounded, and supported,
then we can gently start patching the deeper cracks, the long-standing wounds, and the underlying patterns.
And here’s what we want you to hear most clearly:
If the storm doesn’t stop right away, if the ceiling keeps leaking more than we hoped,
we will stay with you through it.
Therapy isn’t about rushing you to “fix” yourself.
It’s about being with you, stabilizing what’s happening now, and walking with you step by step as you heal, whether the rain slows tomorrow or takes a little longer.
You don’t have to fix everything today, but you can let someone 'hold' the bucket with you.
Stress Management
Stress is a common response to the demands we face in life. Stress has been shown to have an impact on both our emotional and physical health. Learning to manage the way you react in response to stressful events in your life will improve your sense of well-being. Effective stress management emphasizes distinguishing between the factors in your life that you can control and those that are beyond your control. Stress management depends upon making these distinctions and developing effective problem solving, assertiveness, relaxation and other skills.
Counseling has been shown to significantly improve quality of life. We integrate various therapy approaches including interpersonal/relational therapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy and cognitive behavioral therapy techniques. 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.
We attempt to heal by defining the negative impacts in your life and actively develop techniques to help cope with or resolve these. We also explore your relationship patterns, psychology, and patterns throughout your life which may be influencing your symptoms so that we can help diminish them and create new coping skills, relationships, and ways of relating.
Once you have recognized that you are experiencing symptoms that are negatively affecting your life, it may be time to consider visiting us. Through counseling sessions you will learn important life skills and tools that will allow you to start to reduce the amount of tension in your life, cope with stressors proactively, and increase your resilience.
This will help you in your personal, relational, and work life. We want you to be able to enjoy your life. You are already making progress by reading this, take another step and contact us for help.
Tags: Stress management therapy. Adult therapy. Anxiety and overwhelm. Garden City NY.
