West Florida Therapy
Empowering You To Live Your Best Life
About The Practice
Welcome to West Florida Therapy
We are here to help you navigate and develop the ability to deal with life's challenges and achieve your goals. We believe in empowering individuals and families to live their best lives, and we're here to guide you every step of the way.
We provide a safe and supportive environment for you to explore your thoughts and emotions.
Whether you're struggling with paralyzing anxiety, depression, trauma, mood issues, relationship problems, or other life challenges, we're here to help you find your way forward.
Meet Our Founder
Margaret Deuerlein, LMHC, NCC
Licensed Psychotherapist who helps clients transform their everyday lives. I specialize in helping clients overcome anxiety, insecurity, depression, anger, and self-defeating behaviors to achieve more fulfilling relationships and life goals.
Through evidence-based therapy interventions and building trusting relationships with clients, I can help you become more aware of your strengths and potential.
Let's work together to develop healthier ways of thinking and being, and take more control of your life.
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We Specialize In
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Trauma Therapy
Trauma is an emotional response to an intense adverse event like an accident, assault, or natural disaster. Immediately after the event, shock and denial are typical.
Longer term reactions include unpredictable emotions, flashbacks, strained relationships, and even physical symptoms like headaches. After experiencing a trauma event, people can develop Acute Stress Disorder (ASD), which is a response to a traumatic event that occurs within one month of the event.
When symptoms persist for more than one month, people may develop PTSD, which can cause some people to have difficulty moving on with their lives. We can work through these challenges and improve people’s overall mental and emotional well-being.
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Anxiety Treatment
Anxiety is an emotion characterized by feelings of tension, worried thoughts, and physical changes like increased blood pressure.
People with anxiety disorders usually have recurring intrusive thoughts or concerns. They may avoid certain situations out of worry. They may also have physical symptoms such as sweating, trembling, dizziness, or a rapid heartbeat.
Anxiety disorders include Social Anxiety, Panic Disorder, Specific Phobias, Agoraphobia, Generalized Anxiety, and Separation. Anxiety can interfere with a person’s ability to do the things they most want in life.
Fortunately, there are effective therapeutic interventions that can greatly help reduce and improve the ability to deal with anxiety.
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Depression Treatment
Everyone experiences sadness at times. But depression is something more. Depression is more intense sadness or despair that lasts more than days. It interferes with the activities of daily life and can cause physical symptoms such as pain, weight changes, sleeping pattern disruptions, or lack of energy.
People with depression may also experience an inability to concentrate, feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt, and recurrent thoughts of death or suicide.
Depression can affect people more that we might think. However, there are effective therapies that can greatly help reduce or eliminate depression.
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Mood Issues and Regulation
Managing emotions can be challenging, especially when mood is inconsistent with the circumstances and ability to function. Feeling intense sadness, emptiness, irritability, anger, or you may have periods of impulsiveness and extreme happiness or low self-esteem.
Our therapy practice offers strategies to manage depression, impulsiveness, stress, anger, and low self-esteem to help individuals navigate their daily lives with greater ease and confidence.
We provide a supportive and non-judgmental environment to work through these challenges.
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Couples Therapy
Struggling with relationships can have a significant impact on your daily life and overall mental health.
Our therapy practice provides couples therapy to help improve communication, resolve conflict, connectedness, creating a shared sense of meaning, and build healthy relationships.
Treatment Modalities
At West Florida Therapy, we offer a range of evidence-based modalities to help you achieve your goals and overcome life's challenges
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
Schema Therapy
Emotionally Focused Therapy
Trauma Focused-CBT
Cognitive Processing
Mindfulness
Acceptance and Commitment
Gottman Method
Certified Florida Qualified Supervisor: Clinical Supervision
Start Your Journey Today!
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I’m looking forward to connecting with you.