Steffie Beard (she/her)

So many of us experience worries and fears. These feelings and thoughts can sometimes begin to feel like they own our lives and our bodies. Anxiety affects all aspects of the human experience including physical health as well as mental health. Anxiety can be effectively treated with CBT and DBT techniques. I will collaborate with clients and provide support and psycho-education as needed to decrease the client's symptoms.

Depression and suicidal ideations can be just as prevalent in our communities as anxiety. Much like anxiety, depressive symptoms effect all aspects of life and can be treated with CBT/DBT techniques as well as humanistic, compassionate and person-focused sessions to determine underlying causes and possible triggers in the client's environment that may be contributing factors to the depressive symptoms.

Body image issues effect almost all of us. Society and media put a lot of emphasis on the importance of how we look which effect self-esteem and self-worth. For most of us it creeps into our thinking and influences us much more than we can detect. Body image issues often turn into disordered eating behaviors and/or intentional self-harm. Body image issues can also just be a feeling of mild dissatisfaction of our physical appearance intensified by our exposure to unhealthy diet culture.