OUR SERVICES & SPECIALTIES
Depression & anxiety
OUR SPECIALTIES
Therapy for depression & anxiety
It’s okay to ask for help. Therapy provides a safe and supportive space for you to process your feelings and learn positive coping skills for everyday life.
At Amar Husain Mental Health Counseling Services, we offer virtual therapy sessions for New York State residents. Whether you are struggling with depression or anxiety symptoms, we are here to help.
Therapy for depression
It’s completely healthy to experience fluctuations in your mood and periods of situational sadness. But when feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and lack of motivation are persistent or ongoing, they can make it difficult to function or do normal daily activities. Depression can also lead to feeling a loss of meaning in your life, changes to appetite, fatigue and difficulty being around people.
So many people have depression but the reasons can vary widely. It’s common to feel guilt or shame for being depressed, and thinking that you don’t have a valid reason for feeling so down.
Depression can be our body’s way of letting us know that something is wrong. It can also be our body’s way of telling us that it is time to process certain feelings or emotions.
Therapy provides a safe and supportive space for you to process your feelings so that you don’t have to do it alone. Providing your emotions with a voice after they have been shut down for so long can break their hold and create space to experience your full range of emotions.
What we can help with
Communication
Boundaries
Sex
Infidelity
Negotiating values
Parenting
Blended Families
Therapy for anxiety
Anxiety can keep you constantly worried about the future, or unable to stop analyzing the past. When anxiety becomes overwhelming and paralyzing, it stops you from being present and able to enjoy the moments where everything is going okay. This is an exhausting way to live.
Anxiety may be the way that your body learned to protect itself when you were younger or due to unpredictable and stressful experiences such as a traumatic event. This can be true if you grew up in an environment where you didn’t feel that you had much control or agency, or if you experienced a traumatic event where you felt a loss of control (ex. a car accident). To avoid threats, your body may become hyper-vigilant to any changes or unpredictable circumstances.
The good news is that there are effective treatments for anxiety. Therapy can help you process and be curious about the source of your anxiety and what it may be protecting you from. You will also learn positive coping skills in how to control your anxiety and the other ways it may be manifesting itself and impacting your life and your relationships. This might look like perfectionism, overworking, poor boundaries and low self-esteem.
What we can help with
General anxiety disorder
Panic attacks
Social anxiety disorder
Obsessive compulsive disorder
Post traumatic stress disorder
Symptoms of anxiety, including: shortness of breath, heart palpitations, racing thoughts, muscle tension, difficulty sleeping, excessive worrying, indecisiveness
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Our approach to healing
Our therapists are experts in trauma and are committed to a holistic, customized approach that targets the root of the problem. Our approach is compassionate, curious and creative. Our practice is also completely online so that therapy is easily accessible for the busy on-the-go professional.
Inclusive
Trauma, depression, and anxiety do not discriminate. They are universal, human problems. We’re committed to providing anti-racist, anti-oppressive, and LGBTQIA+ affirming care.
Holistic
Through somatic therapy we’ll address physical symptoms showing up in the body, along with inner child work to reacquaint you with the unmet needs of your younger selves, and EMDR which helps reprocess traumatic memories.
Tailored
Gaining insight into how your upbringing may be impacting your current life gives you agency and allows you to decide what healing looks like for you. We support your self-leadership, so that you can become your own healer and handle whatever life throws you.
