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Credentials

Condition-Specific Experience

AV Therapy Aids

Condition-Specific Experience

  • Sessions with Dr. Horton focus on developing permanent solutions to problems that you may be experiencing.

Dr. Horton can help you with the following:

Depression -- A feeling of sadness, loss of interest, and/or loss of pleasure for most of the day every day for at least two straight weeks. There are different classes of depression which are defined by their duration and severity.

1. Depression.....Explain

Grief Processing -- Experiencing any loss, be it loss of a relationship through death, divorce, or breakup, loss of a job, loss of a sense of familiarity, relocation, and many other losses, bring about a grief reaction. Moving through each stage and consciously thinking about your feelings, reactions, and thinking helps you to achieve healing faster.

2. Grief Processing.....Explain

Stress -- Stress is necessary for life. Too much stress can cause you to feel fatigued, angry, uncreative, disinterested, tearful, and other feelings. You can find a stress indicator chart to score your level of stress elsewhere on this Website.

3. Stress.....Explain

Life Changes---As we age, we go through many different stages of life and many different circumstances of life. Each change brings its particular challenges and rewards.

4. Life changes....Explain

Recovery From Trauma -- A trauma can be life threatening or not. It is basically any experience which shocks or frightens you and causes you to feel physically ill, faint, or threatened in some way. Repeated traumas can seriously damage a person psychologically until they are appropriately processed through psychotherapy.

5. Recovery From Trauma.....Explain

Relationship issues -- Relationships include any kind of continuing interaction between people. Types of relationships include intimate relationships, friendships, parent-child, business, or religious. Most relationship problems occur due to communication difficulties.

6. Relationship issues.....Explain

Anxieties---Anxiety disorders can be categorized in a number of ways by the types of symptoms that are experienced and the length of time the symptoms have been present. Anxiety can manifest itself in the form of panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, acute stress disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and from medications, drugs, and physical illness. For anxiety screening, order the anxiety self-test available on this WEBSITE.

7. Anxieties.....Explain

Phobias -- Phobias are unrealistic fears about things we might face such as leaving the house (agoraphobia), fears of common, everyday items (hydrophobia?fear of water) , fears of doing certain things (fear of flying). Overcoming phobias is very possible through psychotherapy.

8. Phobias.....Explain

Illnesses -- Medical illnesses can create many stresses in our lives. Many illnesses also carry a component of depression or anxiety. If an illness is chronic or terminal, emotional difficulties are almost certain for both the patient and the family. Psychotherapy and support groups are very helpful in such cases.

9. Illnesses.....Explain

Aging - - Aging brings with it many changes to our lifestyles, our sense of self, and our ability to be independent. These readjustments can be eased through psychotherapy.

10. Aging.....Explain

Habit Change---Whether it is stopping smoking, ceasing to nail bite, or increasing your exercise quota, there are ways to accomplish your goals rapidly through appropriate planning. Psychotherapy can assist you in these areas in a number of ways.

11. Habit change.....Explain

Personal Attention

  • There is no “cookbook” formula in Dr. Horton’s office. Your individual needs are carefully assessed, and a plan is developed to help you get the results you want.
  • Dr. Horton helps you identify and better utilize the areas of your strengths and teaches you productive ways of handling areas in which you are less skilled.
  • Dr. Horton assists you in reducing symptoms rapidly and getting to the underlying cause of the symptoms so that, in most cases, they do not return. If they do return, you will have a strategy that will help you to cope with them much more productively and effectively.

Techniques

Dr. Horton has received extensive training in therapeutic techniques, which may produce very rapid results. Among these techniques are:

  • Hypnosis
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR, Levels I and II)
  • Thought Field Therapy (Levels I and II and Diagnostic)

Other types of therapies uncover thinking and behavior patterns that prevent you from being your best self. These therapies include

  • Cognitive
  • Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT)
  • Insight-Oriented
  • Psychodynamic
  • Reality Therapy

In addition, you will find that Dr. Horton is very straightforward, advocating for your well-being in a no-nonsense kind of way. You will be impressed with her common sense and her strong belief in approaching life with a strong spiritual base and a “can do” attitude. There are no victims in her practice, for Dr. Horton teaches everyone who seeks her counsel to not only survive, but also to thrive.