Clients - Problems

Clients

Ages and Backgrounds

Dr. Drozda serves a range of clients including adults, seniors, adolescents, and older children. Clients include busy professionals, students, retirees, stay at home parents, single people, couples, or those divorced or widowed. Many find themselves at points of transition in their lives in areas such as careers, relationships, health concerns, relocation, or recent loss.

Types of Problems

Examples of problems or issues for which clients seek psychological help include:

Depression-Anxiety-Stress-Trauma/Grief/Loss-Relationships-Anger-Habits-Job/Career-Retirement
Health Changes-School

Depression

Depression can result from loss or for no apparent reason. It may include periods of sad mood, loss of interest in usual activities, withdrawal from family or friends, difficulties with sleep and or appetite, recurrent thoughts of death or suicide, irritability, difficulty concentrating, and feeling guilty.

Anxiety

Like depression anxiety can sometimes be tied to a particular cause but may occur without a clear trigger. Some signs of anxiety include unreasonable fears and possible avoidance of certain situations, panic, or chronic worry. Sleep difficulties and physical symptoms may also occur.

Managing Stress

Stress can come in the form of significant life changes that put heavy demands on our resources to cope with them. A wide variety of situations including the loss of a loved one , a change in a relationship, a job loss or change, a change in living circumstances, health, or financial situation can produce stress.

Coping with trauma, loss, and grief

Sometimes a stressors can be overwhelming. Serious and sometimes long lasting emotional trauma can occur as a result of accidents, natural disasters, crimes, or life threatening illnesses.

Relationship problems

Problems getting along with others can impact our effectiveness and well being in our families, in school, at work, or in our communities. Sometimes the relationship can be treated directly as in the case of a troubled marriage or a parent-child problem. At other times, clients can learn to cope more effectively with others in a difficult relationship where it is not possible to include the other person or persons involved in treatment.

Anger

Almost everyone gets angry at some time or another. Becoming chronically angry or allowing anger to become so intense that it threatens the well being of ourselves or others is a problem that should be taken seriously.

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Habit problems: (e.g. smoking, eating, substance use, gambling, certain sexual activity).

Health, family and personal relationships, even jobs and financial success can be impaired by habits that are not controlled. In some cases others may notice and bring a problem to a client's attention before she or he realizes or is willing to admit it. Psychological interventions can help clients establish or regain control of such behaviors and reduce the damage they may have done to other areas of their lives.

Job and career problems

Work is a major focus of most people's lives. Difficulties can arise from career choice, coping with a difficult boss or coworkers, adjusting to a job relocation, promotion, change in responsibilities, travel, or a layoff. Many people consider or start second or third careers and experience challenges as well as rewards in doing so. Assistance from a psychologist can be valuable in getting through these transitions and difficulties.

Retirement

Many people look forward to the end of their active working years and the approach of retirement. This can be a positive and rewarding stage of life. It can also be a time of adjustment from a time when one's identity was significantly attached to one's job to a time where other interests will need to provide purpose and personal meaning. Relationships, with former work associates and especially with spouses can feel and impact. Health and financial changes may also require accommodation.

Adjusting to health changes

Illness, especially chronic or life threatening conditions, chronic pain, disabilities, and resulting physical limitations can be significant sources of stress and llife change. Therapy can be helpful in adjustment to these changes and in promoting as healthy a lifestyle as possible.

School problems

Students face pressures from the demands of academics, or activities, to problems in relations with peers, teachers, and school staff. Sometimes these pressures can result in or be associated with under achievement, discipline problems, or more serious issues involving substance abuse, depression or anxiety.

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