Lauren, Paula and Sarah have experience working alongside Police and Firefighters with both Phoenix and Chandler Crisis Response teams. When selecting a counselor, look for someone who has been trained specifically in the treatment of trauma in First Responders. We are committed to your safety, privacy, and comfort as well as excellence in our service to you.
You will never be asked to leave your weapon in your car and you will be met with understanding of your job and its culture. Catastrophic thinking is often a result of subconsciously over-estimating the possibility of threat and under-estimating our ability to cope with it. Lauren and Rhanda treat social and performance anxiety, panic attacks, phobias, symptoms of frequent worry, and avoidance behaviors.
You will never be asked to leave your weapon in your car and you will be met with understanding of your job and its culture. Catastrophic thinking is often a result of subconsciously over-estimating the possibility of threat and under-estimating our ability to cope with it. Lauren and Rhanda treat social and performance anxiety, panic attacks, phobias, symptoms of frequent worry, and avoidance behaviors.
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CBT is about learning to think about how we think. The model above describes how each of these areas of functioning influence one another. If we learn to monitor our distorted thoughts and challenge them - see them in a realistic way - we can alter our mood. Similarly, our behavior affects our mood.
Being a teen in today's world is unlike any other period in our history. Rates of substance abuse, car accidents, and pregnancies are down in many parts of the country, but rates of depression, anxiety, and self-harm have increased. Our teens face stressors like cyber bullying, online sexualized behavior, peer pressure, and access to violent and pornographic content all in the palm of their hands.
We are fully trained in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Teens (MBSR-T), and evidence-based intervention for teens suffering from anxiety. Stressed Teens is a business that began in 2004 and disseminates the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Teens Program(MBSR-T) (Biegel, 2009a, 2009b, 2014, 2017) in varying forms.
We do require participation of both parents /guardians (if applicable) at least once a month in a family session to the extent that it is feasible in order to reinforce skills learned in session and to keep them appraised of progress and areas of concern. If both parents / guardians cannot attend sessions together due to conflict, separate sessions may be arranged if approved by both parties.
As licensed mental health professionals, we are mandated reporters. This means that we must adhere to the following if a teen discloses abuse to me: A.R.S. § 13-3620 mandates that certain professionals report suspected child abuse to the proper authorities. Among these professionals are nurses, psychologists, social workers, counselors, school personnel or any other person having responsibility for the care or treatment of children.
