Jennifer Moore, LMHC Anxiety & Trauma Therapy
In-person in Greenland NH and Online for MA, NH and ME
Is Anxiety taking over your life?
Can't stop going over and over everything in your mind.
Experiencing racing heart, stomach twisting, hot flashes, or feel like you can’t take a breath.
Distracting you from getting things done at work or at home.
Worried about embarrassing yourself or causing you to make mistakes.
Avoiding going places, seeing people or doing things you would enjoy
How Anxiety therapy can help:
Gain understanding about anxiety and it’s affect on your body and mind.
Learn coping skills so that you can reduce or eliminate the anxiety symptoms that are causing you distress.
Identify what strengths you already have and how they can help you deal with your anxiety.
Look at areas that you struggle with, identify where you can change your approach to the problem, and ways to deal with any difficult feelings that result from the situation.
Receive support from someone who will listen to you without judgement or expectations with a direct focus of supporting you to reach your goals.
Different types of anxiety I specialize in treating
Hi I’m Jen and I’m here to help you to stop struggling, feeling stuck and feeling out of control.
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Excessive and ongoing uncontrollable worry thoughts
Feeling irritable or on edge
Concentration issues
Restless, nervous
Sleeping issues, tired often
Avoiding uncomfortable situations
Tense muscles, racing heart, hot flashes, nauseous
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Social anxiety is more than shyness. It's a fear that does not go away and affects everyday activities, self confidence, relationships and work or school life
Worry about and possibly avoid everyday activities, such as meeting new people, starting conversations, speaking on the phone, working or shopping
Feeling easily embarrassed, judged, and fearing criticism about doing typical daily activities.
Often feeling nauseous, sweating, trembling, excessive blushing, tearfulness and pounding heart when worrying about social situations.
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Panic attacks come on extremely rapidly and have very intense symptoms. Anxiety attacks often build over time, and can become intense.
Common Panic Symptoms
breathing shifts
racing heartbeat
feeling faint, dizzy or lightheaded
feeling that you're losing control
sweating, trembling or shaking
a tingling in your fingers or lips
feeling sick (nausea)
feeling like you need to leave the situation immediately
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A phobia is when you have intense, overpowering fear and anxiety in certain situations or when you encounter certain objects. In the most severe cases, people with phobias critically limit their lives to avoid encountering what they fear.
Behavioral changes include avoidance of activities, people, places or objects with any association with the phobia reaction.
Limiting behaviors to avoid the triggering situation including changing daily activities and social involvement
Physical Symptoms include increased heart rate, sweating, trembling, nausea, trouble breathing, feeling dizzy or light headed.
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PTSD is developed when someone experiences a very upsetting, terrifying, or disturbing event. Symptoms may include flashbacks, nightmares and severe anxiety, as well as uncontrollable thoughts about the event.
Trying to avoid thinking or talking about the traumatic event
Avoiding places, activities or people that remind you of the traumatic event
Negative thoughts about yourself, other people or the world
Feeling constantly on edge, watchful, on guard
Memory problems, including not remembering important aspects of the traumatic event
Feeling emotional numb or detached from family and friends and activities you once enjoyed
Imposter Syndrome
“I didn’t even earn this promotion and now they’re going to realize I am not good enough for this role”
“Everyone is waiting for me to mess up and it’s only a matter of time when I do”
“I finally got to where I want to be, and now I’m miserable! Will I ever be happy?”
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Imposter Syndrome is something that can happen to high-achieving women and men. It’s not a diagnosis, more of a way to describe negative thoughts and feelings someone may experience. Often someone with Imposter Syndrome experiences distressing thoughts and feelings, which can trigger anxiety.
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Feelings of self-doubt
Perfectionistic tendencies
Self-criticism and negative self-talk
Sabotaging yourself and your successes
Fear of not living up to other people’s expectations
Discounting your successes as a result of luck or external factors
Fear that other’s will realize you’re a fraud or don’t deserve recognition for your accomplishments.
Ways I can help you
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EMDR utilizes eye movements and tapping to access the body’s natural healing ability. Click herefor more information
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ART utilizes visualization, imagination, metaphors and eye-movement or tapping to change how you experience an upsetting memory. Click here for more information
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Cognitive behavioral therapy helps you learn to change your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors so you feel better. By targeting your reactions to situations, CBT can help you choose different thoughts which will lead to you reacting more effectively in challenging situations. CBT can also support you to learn ways to feel better when you are unable to change situations happening around you.
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Expressive Art therapy includes the therapeutic use of nature, painting, drawing, crafts, body movement, writing, listening to music, movies, and other creative activities to help clients express themselves.
Through Expressive Arts Therapy you and I can create a safe space for exploration and growth
Expressive Art Therapy allows you a way to gain self-awareness through self-discovery, self-exploration, and self-expression. It provides you ways to tap into your inner-world of subconscious thoughts and feelings. This form of therapy usually works best for people who are not artists, because the focus is not on artistic outcomes but rather on the process of creating.
Expressive Art therapy includes the therapeutic use of painting, drawing, crafts and nature items, body movement, writing, listening to music, movie clips, and other creative activities to help clients express themselves. Through art and expression, your unique life-experiences can be understood, communicated, and transformed so that deep healing can occur. It’s especially helpful for tapping into early life experiences that you may find difficult to talk about.
I offer expressive art therapy groups and workshops, to assist my clients with stress reduction, pain management, symptom reduction of anxiety, all of which contribute to increased feelings of well-being and improved mood.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
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Cognitive behavioral therapy is a problem-solving therapy aimed at helping you achieve your goals. The goals can be anything from improving self-esteem, to finding ways to communicate differently with your partner, to reducing feelings of anxiety. Once you meet your goal, you and I will collaboratively decide whether there is anything remaining to work on or to end treatment.
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CBT typically focuses on present difficulties and distressing situations. This here-and-now focus allows you to identify specific challenges where you can make changes in how you think, feel and react to the distressing situations.
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CBT involves us working together as a team and collaborating to identify common thinking patterns you have which are leading to negative feelings and resulting behaviors. You are provided information and tools that you can apply so that you are able to take an active role in your own treatment, using self-help assignments and CBT tools between sessions to speed up the process of change. Each session is focused on identifying ways of thinking differently and changing thinking/feeling/behavior patterns.
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CBT is a time-limited therapy, meaning once you feel significant symptom relief and have the skills you need for success, treatment can end. This makes CBT significantly shorter in duration than traditional talk therapy, which can last years. Many people finish CBT after just a few months of treatment. However, not everyone makes significant progress in a short time; some people may need additional therapy to reduce symptoms and create lasting change.
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Making big changes can be difficult which is why I find it’s important to support my clients along this process so you can move at your own pace. I will be offering CBT tools so you can feel more capable and confident in your own abilities to make the necessary changes to better achieve your goals.