Reclaim your confidence, courage and calm.
Providing compassionate, empathetic and effective treatment for anxiety.
My name is Mary Meyer and I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker specializing in treatment of anxiety in adults and children, focusing on the family system as a whole. I provide individualized, evidence-based therapy to stop the cycle of anxiety and strengthen your coping and emotional regulation skills to help you lead your fullest life. Whether you or your child struggles with a form of anxiety, be it generalized anxiety, phobias, separation anxiety or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, together we can work to restore your joy, your freedom and your connection to each other.
Anxiety, excessive worry, fear, phobias, intrusive thoughts and compulsions can wreak havoc on the lives of our children, and by extension, our families. While in healthy doses, anxiety plays a vital role in keeping us safe, there can come a point where, in excess, it is debilitating. As parents, we can feel helpless in the face of our child’s pain. This feeling of helplessness, coupled with frustration and our own anxiety can make it difficult for us to respond to our child in an impactful way. Anxiety and anxiety disorders are not logical, and the most helpful responses are not always intuitive. By providing parents of anxious children with education about the function of anxiety, as well as effective parental interventions, I can support you in helping your child to flourish.
Parenting a Child with Anxiety
Therapy for Adults with Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety is a normal, and even healthy, reaction to a stressful situation. However, when the brain gets stuck in anxious thinking patterns, we become constantly worried, exhausted and overwhelmed.
Whether these feelings are new to you, or you have been suffering for some time, it can feel like it is a permanent and debilitating state.
By seeking the support of a professional, you can move forward, out of the grinding cycle of anxiety and into the full, courageous life you deserve. Joining together, I can provide education, tools to help with self-regulation of emotion, increasing flexible thinking and coping skills as well as help to uncover and challenge untrue automatic thoughts that are stealing joy and calm.
The experience of losing a loved one is hard to put into words, but at the very least, extremely difficult to navigate. Grief can be overwhelming, exhausting and isolating. My extensive training and experience with illness, loss and grief might make me a good fit for you if you need additional assistance during this process. If your family is dealing with the illness of a loved one or a recent death and need support, please reach out.
Coping with Illness, Grief and Loss
Children and Anxiety Disorders
If you have wondered about your child’s anxious or avoidant behaviors, and you’re seeing that their symptoms are keeping them from living their fullest life, it might be time to seek professional support. I’d love to help.
Thankfully, anxiety is deeply researched and there is evidence-based treatment to support you and your child.
Together, we can work to restore their sense of safety in the world, as well as your sense of calm.
Depending on your child’s age, interests and strengths, we will develop a personalized therapeutic plan to:
educate your child on the functions and cycle of anxiety
increase their ability to self-regulate intense emotions
increase tolerance of unpleasant emotions, such as anxiety
strengthen your child’s coping skills in the face of intense anxiety
uncover and understand what thoughts, feelings and behaviors are unknowingly fueling your child’s anxiety
challenge and change these thoughts, feelings and behaviors
Often times, anxiety is present in more than one member of a family. Anxiety can migrate from parent to partner to child and back again. Siblings can be greatly impacted by the anxious child’s avoidant behaviors, intense emotions, demands for parental attention as well as the wild accommodations performed to appease the anxious brain.
If your family needs support, I’d love to help.
Anxiety Counseling for Families
Rates
Counseling for Adults
Online or in-person.
Initial 15 min phone Consultation is FREE
Initial Intake Session | 60 min | $250
Subsequent weekly or bi-weekly sessions | 45 mins | $200
Counseling for Children
Online or in-person.
Initial 15 min phone Consultation is FREE
Initial Intake Session | 60 min | $250
Subsequent weekly or bi-weekly sessions | 45 mins | $200
Counseling for Families
In person only.
Initial 15 min phone Consultation is FREE
Initial Intake Session | 60 min | $300
Subsequent weekly or bi-weekly sessions | 45 mins | $250