Jamie Ratowski, LMFT
Axing Anxiety - Easy to Use Skills To Help Manage Anxiety
If you yourself don't struggle with anxiety, you are a rarity and one of the lucky ones! The truth of the matter is that anxiety affects....
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Reclaim Your Happiness & Fulfillment with Counseling in South Florida
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Are you looking for solutions to the challenges life throws your way?
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Do you feel like stress is taking over your life?
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Are you overwhelmed with work/life responsibilities?
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Are you feeling exhausted and just plan burnt out at work?
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Want to change your relationship, but your partner won't go to therapy?
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Do you wonder if you've lost your purpose or direction in life?
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Are you frustrated with your family dynamics, but don't know how to change them?
If you can relate to any of the above experiences you've come to the right place! Everyone goes through difficult situations in life and there is nothing wrong with seeking additional support when needed by working with an expert therapist or psychologist.
Our team at Bayview Therapy has extensive training and decades of experience helping people overcome a wide range of presenting problems, here are a few descriptions of our approach to individual therapy with specific challenges.
We have beautiful, boutique like offices to help you feel more comfortable and relaxed when coming to counseling. Our offices are located in Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Coral Springs, FL (near Parkland), and Plantation, FL.
We also offer online therapy (also known as telehealth or online counseling) across the state of Florida on our secure, HIPAA compliant platform for those who have busy lives and prefer to meet from the convenience of their own location.
We encourage you to read below to discover more about the different counseling services offered for adults at Bayview Therapy. If you have any questions about our services or which therapist would be the best fit for your unique needs and goals, please contact us to speak with our client care coordinator today.
Anxiety Treatment
Anxiety and stress are exhausting, overwhelming, and can even be debilitating. Anxiety comes from many different sources and can wreak havoc in all aspects of a person’s life. Anxiety can leave you feeling afraid, stressed, frantic, on edge, helpless, overwhelmed, and even depressed.
Although anxiety is sometimes caused by a physical health concern, most anxiety is a warning signal that some aspect of our lives needs to change. It is essential to pay attention to the signs of anxiety and learn the tools to cope more effectively through anxiety treatment. If anxiety goes unaddressed, it can escalate into full blown panic attacks or even agoraphobia.
Our team utilizes an integrative, strength-based approach within our anxiety treatment enabling people to utilize their innate strengths, resources, and past successes to overcome the effects of anxiety and stress. We incorporate different therapeutic modalities such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and even EMDR Therapy when we find that trauma/PTSD is an underlying cause of the symptoms of anxiety.
Our goal is to help clients find relief to their worry, stress, anxiety, and panic attacks as quickly as possible while addressing the core issues that cause the symptoms to create lasting relief, not just the "bandaid" effect. We help clients to reduce the affects of various stressors, while enhancing peace, balance, and harmony from within.
For more information about anxiety therapy or counseling for anxiety, worry, stress, panic attacks or agoraphobia, visit our anxiety treatment page.
Substance Use & Abuse Counseling
Whether the unhealthy behavior is related to sex, food, substances, shopping, or gambling, it can affect every aspect of your life. Your mental/emotional well-being, physical health, family, relationships, and career all suffer with you.
This type of behavior often results from a person’s maladaptive attempts to cope with a combination of mental, emotional, physical, and relational stressors. Over time, a person develops habitual patterns that are difficult to break leading to a vicious cycle.
Unhealthy behaviors can leave people feeling anxious, depressed, helpless, and sometimes even hopeless. We use a combination of therapeutic approaches to help people overcome these challenges, build a solid foundation for recovery, repair their relationships, and ultimately reclaim their lives.
For more information about our approach to drug and alcohol abuse, read more on our substance abuse counseling page.
Life Coaching & Career Counseling
Have you ever felt lost in life or not sure what your purpose is? Do you feel unfulfilled or unsatisfied with your work or maybe even burnt out? Would you like to discover how to create and sustain a passionately committed relationship with your profession so you could experience greater work/life balance?
If so, our expertise in professional development and solution-oriented approach can help you to find a meaningful path both personally and professionally. We empower professionals to overcome adversity and create positive changes in their relationships with self, others, and work leading to more balanced and harmonious lives. We are passionate about helping people to reach their optimal potential through using brief and effective coaching strategies.
Depression Treatment
Depression is more common than people think and it can permeate all aspects of a person’s life. With effective treatment approaches and therapeutic interventions, depression symptoms can be alleviated. However, if untreated can leave people feeling anxious, isolated, disconnected, unhappy, unmotivated, helpless, and sometimes even hopeless. No matter the circumstance, there is always a spark of hope!
Our approach empowers people to use their strengths, resources, and innate resilience to overcome the effects of depression so they can move toward possibilities of greater happiness, fulfillment, and satisfaction. By employing a solution-oriented and strengths based approach, we support people in developing more positive thought patterns, beliefs, actions, and interactions within their personal and professional lives.
Our Bayview Therapy team incorporates different therapeutic modalities for the treatment of depression such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and even EMDR Therapy when we find that trauma/PTSD is an underlying cause of the symptoms of depression.
For more information about our approach to helping adults overcome depression, seasonal affective disorder (SAD), postpartum depression, or dysthymia, read more on our depression counseling page.
Grief Counseling
Grief is a normal response to loss and can encompass a myriad of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are unique to each person depending on their culture, background, beliefs, personality, and relationship to what was lost. Grief may come from the death of a loved one, miscarriage or still birth, pet loss, job loss, divorce, trauma, illness, or the loss of one’s identity. For many, the pain is unbearable and they turn to food, drugs, alcohol or any self-destructive behavior to cope.
In our work with clients, we provide a safe, supportive, compassionate, and empathetic therapeutic atmosphere where they can move through the grief process at their own pace.
Our expert clinicians have specialized training in grief and loss. We use an integrative approach to help clients reduce the pain associated with the loss, learn to cope more effectively, and nurture hopes for the future.
We incorporates different therapeutic modalities depending on what stage of grief you're in and what type of grief you're struggling with. Some of the research based method we use are: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and even EMDR Therapy when we find that trauma/PTSD is an underlying cause of the symptoms of grief.
Trauma Treatment
& PTSD Counseling
A traumatic event can shatter your sense of well-being and security. When someone goes through a traumatic experience, they may feel numb, scared, shocked, confused, anxious, depressed, powerless, and unable to function.
Often times, people who have been through a traumatic experience find themselves reliving the trauma over and over again. These normal reactions to trauma can isolate people from themselves, their relationships, and the important aspects of their personal and professional lives.
Working with a therapist is an essential part of the recovery process. From a strength-based position, we help people to safely process their reactions to the traumatic event and develop healthier coping skills to move forward in life. Although we cannot change the past trauma, we work with people to change their relationship with it creating more space for possibilities of relief, renewal, and recovery.
We also provide EMDR Therapy and trauma counseling for First Responders who struggle with anxiety and PTSD from the work they are exposed to on a daily basis. We have specific counselors on our train that have extensive training to work with First Responders and their families who are certified first responder counselors. For more information about our approach to trauma therapy and PTSD counseling, click here. For more information about EMDR therapy for trauma, click here.
You Deserve to Live a Happy, Peaceful, & Fulfilled Life. Let Us Help You Get There...
If you would like to learn more about counseling with our expert psychologists and therapists at Bayview Therapy in Coral Springs, Fort Lauderdale, or Plantation, Florida or want to schedule an appointment with one of our expert depression therapists, call 954-391-5305 to speak with our office assistant and connect with your therapist today. We offer a complimentary phone consultation.
To get started, follow these simple steps:
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Contact our counseling center and speak with our care coordinator.
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Participate in a complimentary phone consultation with an expert therapist to learn more about how we can serve you at Bayview Therapy.
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Begin living a life that is more fulfilling on your terms.
We offer face-to-face sessions as well as online therapy for those who reside Florida (phone or video sessions) on a secure, HIPAA-compliant platform. Our team of expert counselors in Fort Lauderdale, Coral Springs, and Plantation, Florida are here to help!
We also offer psychiatric medication management for those who need it, which provides the best opportunity for a collaborative approach to your depression treatment process.
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Additional Counseling Services at Our Coral Springs, Fort Lauderdale, & Plantation, FL Offices
If you're tired of feeling hopeless and struggling to get through the day, we are here to be your support. Our depression therapists are here to provide a safe and nonjudgmental space for you to be heard and develop healthy coping skills. Regardless of what brings you to counseling, we can serve you in many different ways.
Depression counseling isn’t the only type of psychological service we provide at our Fort Lauderdale, Coral Springs, and Plantation offices. We help people across their life span... Sometimes, life gives us unexpected challenges. If you or your loved ones are struggling with more than one challenge, we want you to remember that you're not alone... no matter what you're going through, there's always a spark of hope and we're here to help!
Our expert psychologists and counselors at Bayview Therapy specialize in different areas. We offer a wide range of counseling and psychological services to support our Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, Plantation, Southwest Ranches, Davie, Weston, Coral Springs, Coconut Creek, and Parkland communities.
We provide therapy and psychological evaluations for children, teens, adults, couples, and families dealing with a wide variety of life's challenges across the lifespan. Some of our specialties include depression counseling; trauma therapy and EMDR therapy; teen counseling; child and family counseling; couples counseling or marriage therapy; and more.
We also provide affirmative counseling for the LGBTQ+ community and online counseling options using our secure HIPAA compliant platform.
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