Anxiety can be defined as but not limited to chronic worrying and intrusive thoughts accompanied by uncomfortable physical symptoms that interfere with your daily life.  Anxiety and fear share common features but are different. Anxiety is an emotional and physical response to an anticipated threat or thoughts about potential dangers, whereas fear is a response to an appropriate, present-oriented, immediate danger or threat.  

Anxiety can reduce your job performance, quality of work, and affect your relationships with coworkers and superiors. Anxiety can negatively affect your personal life, confidence, and completion of responsibilities. It can affect on your relationships: how you communicate and connect. It can also create problems with concentration, fatigue, irritability, and reduce productivity.  

Depression includes feelings of sadness and emptiness that is experienced often in your daily life. Depression affects every aspect of your life. It creates low self-esteem and self-worth. It can leave you feeling hopeless about your current situation and your future. It affects your relationships with your family, friends, and coworkers. Depression affects your social life, pushing away the ones you care about and isolating yourself. It affects your career, your productivity at work, concentration, engagement with your coworkers, and motivation to excel. Depression can even affect the way you sleep and eat. At its worst, depression can affect one's will to live and lead to suicide. 

If you are experiencing thoughts of harm or suicide, please seek immediate help. Resouces are available to support you. Call 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. If you’re in the Chicagoland area, you can also call 1-800-273-8255 for the Suicide Prevention Lifeline. 

Anxiety and depression can and often co-exist, experiencing more complicated feelings and challenging situations. 

I provide individual therapy to adults experiencing anxiety and depression who are seeking support to improve their personal life, relationships, and careers. 

Through therapy, you will learn how to identify and control your emotions; feeling less anxious, more positive, and present in your day to day. You will be able to transform your beliefs about yourself and the world to be more creative and secure. You will learn how to cope with negative emotions with healthy and positive behaviors. You will have the opportunity to increase self-love and be more confident in yourself. You will be able to improve your relationships with family, friends, and co-workers. You can have a better work-life balance, increase concentration, increase motivation and productivity at your job or in your career. You will also be able to increase overall satisfaction with your life. 

At this time, I do not accept Medicaid plans