Sean Maybery (he/his)

Depression is often a difficult spiral that is hard to get out of. We often lose motivation to do things such as eat right, exercise, socialize, utilize our coping skills, and engage in hobbies. By reducing these things, we find ourselves feeling more sad, lonely, isolated, and hopeless. These feelings lead to additional motivation concerns, and our depressions continues down this path. Often times, we have to figure out ways to break that cycle, and therapy can help you achieve that goal.

Physical, emotional, or sexual abuse can occur at any stage of our lives. Because of the severity of these acts, we often don’t know how to appropriately cope with them. We may develop PTSD, anxiety, depression, or other issues after being abused. Many times, we may feel these symptoms come out of nowhere, when, in fact, they are often tied to the abuse itself.

I have run the CALM Anger Management Program, created by my old supervisor, Shannon Purtell, LPC-S for about 1 year. From this, I have learned the many facets of anger and trying to help people reduce the frequency, severity, and duration of their anger.

I have run the CALM Anger Management Program, created by my old supervisor, Shannon Purtell, LPC-S for about 1 year. From this, I have learned the many facets of anger and trying to help people reduce the frequency, severity, and duration of their anger.

Physical, emotional, or sexual abuse are often traumatic experiences for people. These things can lead to a myriad of mental health symptoms including PTSD, depression, and anxiety. Often times we develop these mental health symptoms and don’t know what caused them. Often, the cause is unresolved past experiences such as abuse. Our bodies don’t always know how to cope with such awful experiences, and we end up suppressing these experiences rather than coping and healing from them.

CBT is a staple in mental health treatment. The premise is simple: that thoughts, emotions, and behaviors are all linked. By trying to help you work on awareness of negative thoughts, assessing the validity of those thoughts, and correcting them if necessary, we can positively impact our emotional and behavioral responses.

EMDR is one of the most evidence based treatments that exist. It has been around since the 80’s and has helped many people heal from their trauma. EMDR can be a way to help past experiences stop casting such a shadow over your life. I encourage you to check out www.emdria.org for additional information on EMDR.

Anger management therapy can help you decrease the frequency, intensity, and duration of your anger episodes. Anger is not a bad emotion to have, how we act on our anger is often what gets us in trouble. I have over a year of experience running anger management group therapy, and have continued to utilize these skills and techniques in individual counseling.