Are you experiencing intrusive symptoms?

If you are constantly feeling sad, hopeless, and uninterested in people and things that used to take center stage in your life, you could be depressed.

If you are experiencing excessive worry, fear, or panic, even when there is no reason to feel that way, you could be suffering from an anxiety disorder.

If you are experiencing shifting moods causing difficulty focusing on your everyday activities, you could have a mood disorder.

If these feelings are wreaking havoc on your health, relationships, and life, you aren’t alone. Therapy and psychiatric medication management can help to address these symptoms and more. 

Do you feel overwhelmed?

Grief, guilt, trauma, low self-esteem, or other intense emotions can zap your energy and focus, leaving you feeling as if you can’t move on or focus on your life goals.

A major life change can make you feel overwhelmed, pressured, and confused, which can make it harder to adjust or accept the change.

Losing someone/something extremely valuable in your life, multiple changes happening all at once, and past traumatic events can disable your natural ability to process the experiences and adjust. Counseling can help you understand past and present events, work through your experience, and explore your options. A therapist can assist you to see the positive side of the challenges and the change.

How are your relationships?

Is your relationship with your spouse/partner on the rocks? If you are struggling to communicate or resolve conflict it can create a great deal of distress in your everyday life.

How’s your relationship with your children? If you have a teen or a younger child who is exhibiting behaviors you can’t understand you can begin to feel lost and detached. 

Healthy relationships can invigorate you, in the same way that unhealthy relationships can drain your energy and leave you feeling stuck. Marriage counseling or couples counseling can improve your communication with your partner and provide a neutral venue to sort out and resolve your issues. Counseling can help teens and children understand their challenges and responses better, so they can better manage them.

How’s your family?

Family can be a source of comfort and also a source of stress. If you feel your family relationships are strained, counseling can help. 

Are there issues among members of your family? If your family is in the midst of a challenging situation or experiencing painful dynamics because of a loss, a life transition, financial trouble, addiction, a chronic medical problem, etc., you can benefit from family counseling.

Family counseling can provide the support you need to address your concerns as a family. Counselors can help families work together as a unit to strengthen relationships, improve communication and resolve issues.

Do you wish your life was better?

Is it important for you to improve your control over your life? Do you want to keep your life as uncomplicated as possible?

Therapy can help you to explore your goals and address what has been standing in your way. You deserve to live the life you want, counseling can help you get there. 

How can Carolina Counseling help you?

Carolina Counseling Services believes that your mental health matters. You deserve to get quality therapy and psychiatric care. CCS contracts with caring, skilled licensed therapists and psychiatric professionals. Whether you are looking for therapy, psychiatric medication management or both, you can find an exceptional provider with CCS. 

Providers are in network with most major insurances including Aetna, Aetna State Health Plan, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC), Tricare, Medicaid and many more. Call CCS today to get started!

Jaime Johnson Fitzpatrick LCMHCS, LCAS is one of the Owners and Vice Presidents of Carolina Counseling Services. She is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Clinical Addictions Specialist in the State of North Carolina as well as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in State of New York. Jaime is also certified in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and utilizes various other approaches in her practice.