Anxiety, depression, and trauma care in Chattanooga

What it looks like

People call about a racing heart with no clear cause, waking at three in the morning, and tightness before work that does not go away on days off.

• Worry that runs most of the day and is hard to interrupt
• Panic that peaks within minutes and leaves you drained afterward
• Avoiding drives, places, or conversations to keep it from starting
• Physical symptoms that come with it: chest tightness, nausea, shaking hands

You do not need to have any of this sorted out before you call. That is what the intake call and the first visit are for.

Care at Chattanooga

Care for anxiety here is individual counseling, plus psychiatric medication management when it is clinically appropriate. Both are outpatient.

If medication becomes part of your plan, it is prescribed and managed by our licensed providers across your regular visits, and you take it at home in between. What gets prescribed is a decision your provider makes with you at the visit, based on what you are dealing with and what you have already tried.

What it looks like

People usually describe mornings that are hard to get through, routine work taking twice as long, and a low mood that stays after whatever set it off has passed.

• Losing interest in things that used to hold your attention
• Sleeping far more, or far less, than you used to
• Trouble concentrating, deciding, or finishing what you start
• Feeling low in a way that does not match what is going on in your life

If you are having thoughts of hurting yourself, call the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. It is free and answered around the clock.

Care at Chattanooga

Care for depression here is individual counseling, plus psychiatric medication management when it is clinically appropriate. One team at one clinic handles both.

Medication, if it becomes part of the plan, is prescribed and managed by our licensed providers and reviewed with you at each visit. The work in a follow-up is checking whether what you are doing is helping and adjusting it when it is not.

What it looks like

People describe symptoms that started long after the event, and that they had not connected back to it.

• Sleep broken by the same dream, or by waking up already on alert
• Reactions that happen before you have had time to think: a sound, a smell, a road you take the long way around
• Going numb, or losing track of stretches of time
• Long quiet periods, then a week when the symptoms are back

You do not have to name the event, or talk about it at all, to book an appointment.

Care at Chattanooga

Care here is trauma-informed individual counseling, plus psychiatric medication management when it is clinically appropriate. Trauma-informed means your counselor works at a pace you set and does not ask you to walk through the worst of it in order to get started.

If substance use is also part of the picture, the same team handles both sides on one plan. That side of it is covered on our dual-diagnosis treatment page.