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Mental health
Adult Therapy
Adult Counseling
Adult Counseling, also known as psychotherapy and individual therapy, is best suited for your needs. Here at Wilmington Health, we can help you overcome personal obstacles, make healthy decisions, and cope with difficulties better. Life can feel fast-paced, overwhelming, and stressful, that is why we are here to provide one-on-one support for a wide range of emotional, cognitive, and behavioral issues.
We want to help you focus on developing skills, taking steps towards personal change, reduce symptoms, and enhance the overall quality of your life. Wilmington Mental Health's holistic and integrated care is implemented by healthcare professionals with extensive training and whose primary purpose is to promote healing for you.
Why Is Counseling So Important?
Mental health treatment has the potential to impact anyone who is willing to engage in it. Learning how to navigate difficult situations, overcoming personal obstacles, make health decisions, and attain achievable goals is one step closer to obtaining a healthy mind and body for the future. Counseling gives you an opportunity to explore your inner feelings, thought processes, and patterns of behavior as well as learning new coping skills and techniques to better manage your symptoms.
When Is It Time to Seek Mental Health Treatment?
Early warning signs that indicate that you may need to seek help:
- Feeling sad, negative, and/or depressed?
- Experiencing low self-esteem?
- Experiencing unexplained aches and pains?
- Feel as if you have little to no energy?
- Experience a loss in memory?
- Suffer from anxiety or panic attacks?
- Think about harming yourself or others?
- Experience uncontrollable stress, fears, or obsessions?
- Have problems with drugs, alcohol, or eating disorders?
- Faced with conflict with family members or significant others?
Trauma/PTSD Therapy
Professional Adult Treatment
Our Approach
Learn how to overcome psychological trauma. Trauma occurs when you have had a disturbing experience that results in significant fear, hopelessness, dissociation, conduction, or disruptive feelings that have a long-lasting effect on your person, behavior, and attitude. Wilmington Mental Health has specialists that will help you manage your symptoms related to trauma with the goal to help you manage your symptoms.
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Related Disorders
Adjustment Disorders
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Acute Stress Disorder (ASD)
Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)
Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder
Common Symptoms
| Symptoms | |
|---|---|
Agitation | |
Hostility | |
Hypervigilance | |
Self-destructive behavior | |
Social isolation | |
Flashbacks | |
Fear | |
Mistrust | |
Loss of interest or pleasure in activities | |
Guilt | |
Loneliness | |
Insomnia | |
Nightmares | |
Emotional detachment | |
Treatment Goals for you at Wilmington Mental Health
| Treatment Goals | |
|---|---|
Awareness of feelings | |
Decrease or eradicate symptoms | |
Face the reality of the traumatic event without getting stuck in it | |
Shift focus from the past to the present | |
Improve daily functioning | |
Reclaim personal power | |
Overcome addictions associated with traumatic stress | |
Gain skills that prevent relapse | |
Treatment Modalities
| Available Treatment Methods | |
|---|---|
Individual Therapy | |
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) | |
Prolonged Exposure Therapy | |
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) | |
Hypnotherapy | |
Psychodynamic | |
Group Therapy | |
Depression Therapy
Professional Adult Treatment
Our Approach
Learn how to address persistent feelings of sadness and loss of interest. Depression exists when you experience persistent low mood or loss of interest in activities, which may have significant impairment in your daily life.
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Related Disorders
Major Depressive Disorder (Clinical Depression)
Persistent Depressive Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
Postpartum Depression
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
Seasonal Affective Disorder
Atypical Depression
Common Symptoms
| Symptoms | |
|---|---|
Apathy | |
Guilt | |
Hopelessness | |
Loss of interest or pleasure in activities | |
Sadness | |
Excessive crying | |
Irritability | |
Social isolation | |
Insomnia | |
Fatigue | |
Increased/decreased appetite | |
Slowness | |
Thoughts of suicide | |
Weight gain/loss | |
Treatment Goals for you at Wilmington Mental Health
| Treatment Goals | |
|---|---|
Develop a safety plan | |
Participate in pleasurable or enjoyable activities | |
Decrease suicidal ideation | |
Learn coping skills, problem solving and emotional regulation | |
Identify maladaptive thoughts | |
Shift focus to adaptive thoughts | |
Treatment Modalities
| Available Treatment Methods | |
|---|---|
Individual Therapy | |
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy | |
Interpersonal Therapy | |
Psychodynamic Therapy | |
Social Skills Therapy | |
Supportive Counseling | |
Behavioral Activation | |
Problem-solving Therapy | |
Anxiety Therapy
Professional Adult Treatment
Our Approach
Learn how to manage intrusive thinking. Anxiety is a common human emotion but it can become excessive, persistent, and interfere with daily life. These feelings can be difficult to control but here at Wilmington Mental Health, we are here to help you manage your symptoms and improve your overall mental health.
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Related Disorders
Agoraphobia
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Panic Disorder
Separation Anxiety
Specific Phobias
Social Anxiety
Other Specified Anxiety Disorder
Unspecified Anxiety Disorder
Common Symptoms
| Symptoms | |
|---|---|
Feeling nervous, restless or tense | |
Having a sense of impending danger, panic, or doom | |
Breathing rapidly | |
Increased heart rate | |
Sweating | |
Trembling | |
Trouble concentrating or thinking about anything other than the present worry | |
Having trouble sleeping | |
Having difficulty controlling worry | |
Treatment Goals for you at Wilmington Mental Health
| Treatment Goals | |
|---|---|
Reducing anxiety symptoms | |
Learning calming skills | |
Manage anxiety symptoms | |
Explore biased, fearful self-talk | |
Identify and replace irrational beliefs | |
Build realistic and empowering self-talk | |
Treatment Modalities
| Available Treatment Methods | |
|---|---|
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy | |
Exposure Therapy | |
Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) | |
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) | |
Interpersonal Therapy (ITP) | |
Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) | |
Group Therapy | |