If so, ask yourself these questions and allow yourself to be mindful of what your challenges or barriers may be:

• Is depression or anxiety stopping you?
• Are you avoiding activities you once enjoyed?
• Are you isolating from others because of fear, sadness or constant worry?
• Are you angry or irritable more often than you'd like?
  
• Are your relationships less satisfying than you'd like?
• Are you experiencing sexual difficulties that are interfering with you self esteem, relatiohships, or marriage?
• Are you facing major life transitions such as graduating and leaving home, marriage, divorce, and "empty nest", or challenging health problems?
• Are current stressors related to caring for elderly loved ones, or recent losses of loved ones depleting you of energy and joy?
• Are you experiencing other losses related to divorce or illness?
• Are you haunted by memories of childhood traumas that still interfere with your happiness in the present?
• Are you a veteran, a wounded warrior, struggling with the challenges of re-entry and PTSD?
• Are you the parent of a child or teenager who is struggling in school of in the family because of ADD or AFHD?
• Are you using alcohol, drugs, or prescription drugs to provide brief relief but no real solutions?

These are a few of the many reasons people just like you find the courage to pick up the phone and call a therapist and ask for help, guidance, and support.

If you do find that courage, you will experience an active, non-judgemental, solution-focused approach to help you feel better and learn skills to be more mindful of your own feelings and needs; to be more effective in reaching your goals and relating to the people who matter to you; to tolerate, as well as cope with, the stressors in your life; and to be better equipped to handle your emotions, rather than letting them run you.

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