Looking for help with your child  or teen? Go to my other website by clicking here.

Looking for help with your child  or teen? Go to my other website by clicking here.

Do you want to feel better?

• Are you tired of being unhappy, afraid and self critical?
• Has your depression and anxiety prevented you from living life the way you want to?
• Has your anxiety or depression caused problems in your friendships and romantic relationships?
• Are you ready to take control and responsibility for how you are feeling?
• Are you willing and ready to do what you can to feel better and be emotionally healthier?
• If you are ready to say no to anxiety and depression and begin to do the work to be happy read on!

Through this website, I will share some of what I have learned about anxiety and depression treatment. I created this website for my clients and for others who want information about how to best help themselves to feel better. I want to share this information with you so you can benefit from it.

It is not your fault you are depressed or anxious! However, you owe it to yourself to do what you can to see how you may help yourself heal.  Anxiety and depression treatment consists of examining how your thoughts, feelings or behavior patterns, which you may be unaware of, are contributing to your unhappiness. Then, you take the action that is within your control to help feel better.

 In these pages, I will teach you to recognize these unconscious patterns and work on breaking them. Depression and anxiety originate and are maintained through an intricate and delicate relationship between our mind (thoughts), body ( biology), and behavior. Our environment, life circumstances and family also play a role, as do our genetics.

Do you realize you have the ability to change many of the things that make you unhappy?

Your past does not predict your future. You can begin making small changes at any moment that will impact the rest of your life. These pages on depression and anxiety treatment will teach you some of the things that you can do (on your own or as an adjunct to therapy) to feel better.  However, this website may not be enough to help everyone. Depending on the severity of your depression and anxiety you may require therapy or medication. If you have suicidal ideation please seek help immediately.

Before I worked with adults, I worked with children for 20 years. I am adding all of my content from my child website to this one to simplify things. There is alot of information so check back!

• Intrested in information about children? Click here for information about what anxiety looks like in kids and here for information about i'ts treatment and medication for children. 
• Learn about depression in children and how to tell if they have it and how to treat it

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Depression

• If you are wondering if you are depressed, you will find information about depression warning signs , physical symptoms of depression, special kinds of depression such as seasonal affective disorder and reverse seasonal affective disorder  and information on  situational depression. Wondering if alcohol and depression are a problem ?click here
• Self help for depression information can be found here, and information on dealing with anxiety and depression, here.
• Having trouble getting out of bed? Learn some tips. 
• If you are interested in exploring natural ways to heal information on vitamins for depression can be found here.   Also, find some information on how to survive depression right here. 
• Need help with family members? Learn about depression and relationships why depression hurts and what we know about depression cures.
• Depression in women presents special issues. Learn about post partum depression here.
• Depression among  children is unique as well. Learn about it's treatment and symptoms and other issues.
• Explore a little further because if you are experiencing depression, it's likely anxiety has gotten a hold of you too! There are many pages on an abundance of issues and new ones are being added every day. 

Panic

•  A common issue in anxiety is panic attacks .  Panic attacks can sometimes rise to the level of panic disorder. They consist of sudden periods of fear and accompanying physical symptoms. Caffeine can often exacerbate panic and information on that relationship can be found here., panic attacks can impact your heart rate and it is discussed here.  Learn more about medicine for panic attacks here, the impact of the thyroid on panic here, and self help for panic here

Social Anxiety 

• Social anxiety often goes undiagnosed, and may not look like you think.  At the core of social anxiety is the fear of being judged by others. Here is information about social anxiety, social anxiety in teens, it's treatment, its causes and types the relationship between social anxiety and anger, social anxiety and depression, and also natural treatment of social anxiety.

Generalized Anxiety

• Generalized anxiety is worry about everything! It is constant and relentless and is always present. Click here for some information about natural remedies for anxiety, acupuncture for anxiety,  anxiety self help tips, and for information about alcohol and anxiety click here.
• Anxiety at night is a big problem learn all about it here. 
• Looking for  information about anxiety after drinking? You can find that  here. 
• Learn about facts about generalized anxiety, lexapro, seroquel,  causes,it's treatment,  and symptoms.
• Learn about rumination is a big contributor to both anxiety and depression. 
• Learn about post election anxiety something that has been happening a lot in this country. 

OCD is an anxiety disorder consisting of compulsions and obsessions. It is  highly treatable with exposure and response prevention therapy learn about 

• Signs of OCD
• Statistics about OCD

Stress

•  Anxiety and depression treatment require an understanding of how to reduce, cope with and manage your stress in relationships, the workplace, and your family. Learn  information on the definition of stress, how we all exacerbate stress and anxiety, information on the main things we do to cause ourselves stress.
• Find out about stress and anxiety disorders here.
•  Find information on work stress,and how Corporate speedup contributes to it. 
• Stress can manifest itself in your body. Click  here for information on stress and hives and tips on how to help yourself with stress during the holidays. 
• Need  a stress reducer game find that here?
• Or learn about mindfulness meditation,, mindfulness activities,  and self compassion and how they can help you to manage stress. 

Relationships

Learn about trust issues, codependency, asking for help, assertiveness, criticism and advice in relationships. 

Other issues  to focus on when working on decreasing anxiety and depression include increasing your happiness, mindfulness, and self compassion. 

Learn More about happiness:

• Perfectionsim and happiness
• Money and happiness
• Self compassion and happiness
• Acceptance and happiness
• Being happy
• How are others happy?
• How you can feel happier
  
• Defining happiness
• What causes happiness
• Pretending to be happy
• Patience and happiness
• Fear of failure and happiness

Children and Parenting

I worked with young children directly for the early part of my career, and have extensive experience in working with child anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder,  and other childhood issues. I am currently working on sharing all of that information on this website as well. 

What does anxiety and depression treatment look like? How can therapy help?

Anxiety and Depression treatment will teach you new ways to think about yourself and the world. You learn specific behaviors to take care of your body and your brain in ways that lean you more towards happiness and health. It helps you see how your learned behaviors and patterns of dealing with stress may be exacerbating your condition.

Do I need a therapist?

You may not need a therapist. It may be that after exploring these pages, and other self help resources, you can do your own anxiety and depression treatment! However, it's hard to make changes. The persistence and motivation required to be happy is great. A therapist can help you sort through and focus on what will help, make suggestions about medication or natural treatments, and provide you with the support and cheerleading necessary to beat it!

This website is under construction. Please feel free to return each week as I will be adding new pages

My Practice

My therapy office is located at: 5200 Park Road Suite 117 Charlotte North Carolina 28209 (P)704 523 0112 (

kristenlynnmcclure@gmail.com

The areas I service include, but are not limited to: Charlotte, Fort Mill, Rock Hill, York, Gastonia, Huntersville, Statesville, Salisbury, Hickory and Monroe. I provide skype or phone therapy to anyone with a computer and video camera that is a resident of NC.

I currently offer the following anxiety and depression treatment:

• Treatment for social anxiety, panic disorder, OCD and general anxiety
• Treatment for all forms of depression including bipolar disorder
• Consultation for parents who have children with depression and anxiety
• Treatment for adults struggling with stress, relationship and workplace issues

Please enjoy this website and feel free to contact me with any questions by using the contact form.  Medical information obtained from this website is not intended as a substitute for professional care or professional anxiety and depression treatment. If you have or suspect you have a problem, you should consult a health care provider.Thanks for visiting!

Feel free to email me at kristenlynnmcclure@gmail.com

This website is under construction. Please eel free to return each week as I will be adding new pages

My Practice

My therapy office is located at: 5200 Park Road Suite 117 Charlotte North Carolina 28209 (P)704 523 0112. I specialize in working with adult women and teenage girls. 

I provide video  or phone therapy to anyone with a computer and video camera that is a resident of NC. There are other states that I will provider consultation, training, and video coaching to clients in, just inquire about it. 

Please enjoy this website and feel free to contact me with any questions by using my email or the contact form.  

Medical information obtained from this website is not intended as a substitute for professional care or professional anxiety and depression treatment. If you have or suspect you have a problem, you should consult a health care provider.Thanks for visiting!

Feel free to email me at kristenlynnmcclure@gmail.com

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Medical information obtained from this website is not intended as a substitute for professional care or professional anxiety and depression treatment. If you have or suspect you have a problem, you should consult a health care provider.