Mental Health Care Areas

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Anxiety / Worry

How does therapy help with anxiety?

Ms. Kurz will explore with you the symptoms and deeper patterns of anxiety in your life. She will help you:

  • Identify triggers when you are feeling agitated, irritable, worried, or anxious

  • Learn tools and incorporate techniques that help you relieve these symptoms

Through therapy with Ms. Kurz, you will build new strategies that empower you to recognize, approach, and reduce your anxiety.

Are there different types of anxiety?

Anxiety can take many forms. What’s most important is understanding how it affects your life. The most common type is a general anxiety that follows you between work, relationships, and daily life. Other types of anxieties are more specific, such as social anxiety, panic attacks, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

What’s the difference between worry and anxiety?

Worry and anxiety differ in how they impact your daily life, job, and relationships. Worry tends to be more conscious and focused on specific situations, while anxiety often is a deeper uneasiness, tension, or fear about the future. Anxiety differs from worry because it affects multiple areas of your life. 

Ms. Kurz will work with you to understand your experience and develop personalized strategies for managing both immediate concerns and underlying patterns.

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Depression

How does therapy help with depression?

Ms. Kurz will assess if you’re feeling short-term or chronic, ongoing depression, and determine the best therapeutic approach. She will: 

  • Help you understand the root causes of your depression

  • Develop personalized tools and strategies to manage it

  • Determine if medication would be beneficial, collaborating with psychiatrists when appropriate 

Through attending sessions, you will feel like you are taking care of yourself.

What are the signs of depression?

Common signs of depression include: 

  • Irritability

  • Ongoing sadness

  • Lack of motivation or purpose

  • Feeling of dread

  • Loss of interest in subjects once appealing

  • Increased/decreased appetite

  • Difficulty with sleep, either getting too little or too much

  • Inability to get out of bed

Some common descriptions of depression include:

  • “I can’t bring myself out of it.”

  • “Down in the dumps”

  • “It feels like there’s a cloud hanging over me”

  • “I don’t find purpose in life.”

Ms. Kurz can help you with all of these.

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ADHD

How does therapy help with ADHD?

Ms. Kurz provides tools and strategies to recognize and manage your ADHD symptoms in therapy. Together during individual sessions, she will help you:

  • Determine which symptoms need attention

  • Provide tips for managing your relationships, both at work and in personal life

  • Develop an achievable plan with both short and long term goals

  • Assess whether medication would be beneficial, collaborating with psychiatrists when appropriate

Through therapy with Ms. Kurz, you will create personalized strategies that support you with your goals.

What are the signs of ADHD?

Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) often manifests as: 

  • Lack of impulse control

  • Lack of focus or difficulty staying on task

  • Feeling disorganized

  • Difficulty with planning and following through

These symptoms can impact work, relationships, and daily life. With support and strategies Ms. Kurz provides through therapy, they can be effectively managed.

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Substance Abuse

How does counseling help with addiction?

Counseling provides essential support for those recovering from addiction and substance abuse. Ms. Kurz serves as an advocate and accountability partner, offering guidance through online therapy. She asks thoughtful questions, provides steady support through setbacks, and celebrates wins along the recovery journey. 

Ms. Kurz works with in-person treatment programs to support clients during their treatment for addiction and substance use disorders. Those who combine treatment with support groups and individual counseling afterwards find a helpful, consistent, and supportive structure for growth and continued sobriety.

Treatment centers like Lakeside Milam, Hazelden Betty Ford, Schick Shadle have partnered with Ms. Kurz to maintain regular contact with clients during and after in-patient or outpatient treatment.

How is substance abuse counseling different from therapy?

Substance abuse counseling with Ms. Kurz supports individuals and couples affected by addiction. For therapy to be effective, the person struggling with addiction needs to be actively seeking support/rehabilitation to be present enough to make real change.

Many clients work with Ms. Kurz while actively addressing their addiction, often combining weekly therapy sessions with weekly therapy sessions with support groups and treatment programs. When someone isn’t ready for sobriety or getting clean, therapy sessions are paused until they can be productive and helpful.

Does a therapist have to report drug abuse or addiction?

Ms. Kurz maintains client confidentiality regarding addiction or drug abuse. She does not have to report this to any authorities. However, if a client arrives at sessions intoxicated or isn’t following their prescribed treatment plans, sessions with Ms. Kurz may need to be temporarily suspended.