Anxiety & Addiction Counseling

You’re simultaneously pulled in 10 different directions. Your mind won’t stop racing and you feel out of control. Counseling in Spokane can help.

At times, it's nearly impossible to concentrate at work and by the time you get home, you are so exhausted that it's difficult to get dinner on the table or help the kids with homework. You've been pulling back at work, distancing from friends, and feel 'checked-out' around family.

One minute your brain feels like 20 open browser tabs and the next you shut down.Vacillating between overstimulation and overwhelm. It’s exhausting.

Looking back at your life, you’ve always done everything that needed to be done. You can see 15 steps ahead and always do the things that need to be done. You’re dependable, the one with all the answers. The rock.

But now, you don’t even know who you are.

All of the years spent holding everything together for everyone else hasn’t gotten you to where you should be. It feels like something inside you broke months or even years ago, and you just can’t put it back together.

It’s the worst on Sunday nights when your brain starts to spin with nonstop thoughts about Monday… What’s going to come crashing down? What am I going to screw up? Feeling paralyzed by the belief that you’re making all the wrong moves.

Maybe this morning it was just too much. You couldn’t force yourself to get out of bed so you called into work. You remember a time when you felt like you could handle anything, but that feels far away now… You’ve lost your confidence.

People think you're a perfectionist, but you're not. You're just trying to achieve a high enough level of performance.

Others see you as “put together” and even say they “envy” your life. What they don’t realize is that you stopped at the store every night last week on the way home from work to grab a couple bottles of wine. They don’t hear that inner critic condescendingly asking, “When did you turn into someone who drinks every night and skips your morning workout?”

You’ve been in survival mode for so long that your body doesn’t know anything different. It is incomprehensible how you have worked hard to check all of the boxes and yet you find yourself here, trying to push forward in a life that feels stale and unfulfilling.

You probably could do what you’ve always done - put your head down and keep pushing forward, but you don’t have to. It doesn’t have to be this hard and you don’t have to do it alone, I can help.

If you’re ready to dig in and discover or rediscover parts of you that have been overshadowed by all of the other stuff, fill out this form to schedule your free 15-minutes telephone consultation. Together we will explore how anxiety, addiction or trauma may be getting in the way of your happy+healthy.