Justin Witt (he/him)

Anxiety is a very broad term that encompasses mild discomfort with your true feelings, to more severe and life changing patterns that fall under diagnoses like GAD, Social Anxiety, Panic Disorder, etc. I have experience working with all forms of anxiety and I pull from a diverse clinical background to tailor treatment to you. I have helped attend their children's ballgames despite large crowds, to resolve their panic attacks and return to work, and experience their true feelings fully.

Much of my work has been with trauma disorders from childhood abuse, domestic violence, and combat trauma. The loss of trust in other people and the world in general leaves one vulnerable to other issues, like depression, and can be insidious. Often trauma feels like it's "still happening". This work takes a lot of trust between client and therapist. Progress can be made more quickly than you might think, especially when focusing on the effect of trauma on your body using somatic methods.

Working with veterans at a VA Memorial Hospital has been incredibly rewarding and challenging. Veterans deal with a complex set of convergent issues that are overwhelming. Careers and families are often destroyed. While they are a diverse population, veterans also have things in common. They understand hard work, mutual respect, and they expect it in a good therapist. It has been my pleasure to demonstrate these qualities in my work with veterans and I look forward to continuing.

The field of attachment research offers some of the most reliable and practical clinical information in psychology. In a nutshell, humans are absolutely wired for connection with each other as a social species. It is critical for newborns to build secure attachments with caregivers and this reflects in our biology and behavior in interesting ways. Your attachment style sets the scene for all your future social relationships. Under the right conditions (in skilled therapy) it is malleable.

Experiential therapy differs from ordinary talk therapy in that it seeks to facilitated a new experience with difficult feelings, as opposed to talking around them. This reliably creates a very deep and life-changing treatment experience. I practice Experiential Dynamic Therapy and am informed specifically by a type called Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. Please read more here: https://iedta.net/edt/about-edt/types-of-edt/istdp/

The feelings, beliefs, and behaviors of which you are not fully aware are as important as your conscious life. Psychodynamic work incorporates a focus on identifying unconscious processes and helping you become fully aware of them to see how they shape your perception. These processes have origins in our earliest experiences and psychodynamic therapy can unearth revelatory connections between your current and early life.