• Personal Growth

    Therapy can help you overcome obstacles that have kept you from reaching your goals and becoming the person you want to be. Many of us seek to deepen the meaning of our lives and enhance the quality of our relationships.

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  • Loss

    Experiencing the loss of someone who is important to you (through death or separation) can result in great emotional pain. At any time in our lives we may find ourselves suffering the effects of loss.

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  • Eating Disorders

    Increasingly many individuals, both female and male, are struggling with issues of weight, food intake, diets and poor body image. The impact of these problems can be both emotionally devastating and life threatening.

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  • Coping Mechanisms

    Sometimes emotional distress or relationship problems are associated with poor coping mechanisms, or a pattern of social interaction that perpetuates the problem and just triggers more distress and conflict.

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  • Relationship Issues

    Your distress may come from difficulties in your relationship with a spouse, parent, child, co-worker or significant other. Managing these relationships and maintaining healthy, positive connections to the people around you is often a very difficult task.

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  • Emotional Distress

    From time to time, everyone experiences emotional pain. But sometimes the distress is particularly severe or long-lasting and interferes with your ability to function in your daily life.

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  • ADD/ADHD

    While most people understand ADHD as a problem that causes young people to perform poorly at school, they are unaware that its impact goes far beyond academic failure.

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A Letter From Rick Yaverbaum, MSW, LCSW

Welcome to my Winter newsletter.

This issue focuses on fear and the impact it has on our behavior and overall functioning. Why do we become fearful about some situations or issues that we face? What can we do about it?

Sometimes our fears are moderate and we are able to push through them and respond appropriately.

Some fears are truly reality based, es- pecially in our world today. How can we manage those feelings and do the things we want to do in life?

However, sometimes our fears hinder our growth and development. They

limit our experiences and choices in life. Surely you know people who will not fly in airplanes or will not partake in other activities due to fears they are unable to overcome.

At times our fears can become quite intense, preoccupying us and paralyz- ing our ability to make decisions. We may take a stressful situation and find ourselves "catastrophizing," imagining a horrible "worst case scenario" when the situation we face is really not so dire. Yes, fears and anxieties can damage our abil- ity to function and our quality of life.

The good news is that this does not have to be the case. Psychotherapy offers effective methods and coping skills to help us not be captive to limiting, painful and irrational fears.

I hope you find this newsletter helpful and as always, feel free to contact me with any questions or to set up a consultation

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