Our medication prescribers and therapists specialize in working alongside you to implement highly personalized treatment plans that incorporate medications, therapy, lifestyle changes, and other evidence-based treatments. To equip and empower you on your unique journey to renewal and well-being.
The first step toward mental and emotional healing is understanding. And our commitment to restorative treatments and therapies begins by helping you recognize some of the specific challenges we are uniquely able to help you overcome.
These are among the most common and pervasive mental disorders in the United States today. They are typified by a persistent, overwhelming, and sometimes uncontrollable dread of even everyday situations.
This is short-hand for what is properly called major depressive disorder or clinical depression, a common mood disorder among adults and children under 18. Its symptoms can be severe, affecting how you think, feel, and perform even the most basic daily activities — including sleeping, eating, working, or social engagement.
Postpartum is more serious than merely “baby blues:” Women who experience postpartum suffer major depression episodes during their pregnancies and well after delivery. Its overwhelming sense of anxiety, exhaustion, and extreme sadness can afflict mothers every day, and can make it difficult for mothers to adequately care for themselves, or even for their newborns.
Commonly called OCD, this is a common, chronic, and long-lasting disorder characterized by uncontrollable, recurring thoughts (obsessions) or behaviors (compulsions) along with a strong urge to continually repeat them. It can interfere with nearly aspect of daily life and be related to germs or contamination, precise ordering or symmetry, aggressive thoughts, compulsive counting, or other unhealthy compulsions.
Most often called ADHD, this disorder affects attention span, the ability to sit still or follow directions, and self-controlling behavior. ADHD can afflict both adults and children while at work or school, home or away, and while in any social, educational, or professional environment.
Many times referred to as mental or emotional trauma, severe psychological distress can follow tragic or life-threatening events — and present symptoms including anxiety, anger, a sense of “survivor’s guilt,” or PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). In many cases, trauma can lead to persistent challenges with physical pain, loss of sleep, a sense of limited self-worth, and chronic problems in personal or professional relationships.
This disorder can disrupt and distort a person’s most basic perceptions and thoughts, and make it difficult to distinguish between factual reality and perceived reality. These disruptions often present themselves as seeing, hearing, or believing things that simply are not real, or as experiencing persistently strange emotions, thoughts, and behaviors.
An increasingly common condition characterized by unusual shifts in mood, activity levels, and energy, and the ability to perform even the most basic daily tasks. These obvious and disruptive changes can bring drastic swings from extreme elation (“manic episodes”) to deep sadness and hopelessness (“depressive episodes”).
Phobias are irrational, extreme fears about a situation, a place, a living creature, or even a simple object. The perceived threat presented by such fear causes immense distress — and can lead to debilitating panic attacks that prevent the ability to function in day-to-day life.
Sometimes called panic attacks, these disorders are a type of anxiety, and cause sudden and overwhelming feelings of stress or fear when, in fact, there is no threat of any danger. Elevated heartbeat, difficulty in breathing, sudden perspiration, chest or abdominal pains, numbing in the extremities: Any of these symptoms can present themselves in a panic episode, which can happen anytime without warning
A severe mental health disorder that chronically and severely affects thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Sufferers often experience hallucinations, delusions, movement disorders, decreased feelings of pleasure, and even impaired speaking ability — and may seem to others to have lost touch with reality.
Grief is a natural response to loss, encompassing a range of emotions and reactions. Grief can include the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a job loss, or other significant life changes. It is a complex and deeply personal experience that can affect every aspect of a person’s life.
Trauma is a deeply distressing or disturbing experience that overwhelms an individual’s ability to cope. It can result from a single event or a series of events that are perceived as harmful, dangerous, or life-threatening. These experiences can have profound effects on the brain, emotions, and behavior, shaping how individuals perceive themselves and the world around them.
At Aster Mental Health, we recognize that mental health is a nuanced and deeply individual experience. So our holistic, evidence-based approach to treatment and therapy takes shape in a supportive, safe environment where healing can flourish. With expertise and empathy to guide you all along your unique path to recovery and enduring well-being.
