Welcome to the Virtual Office of Carroll J. Wright, Ph.D.

I have been a full-time therapist since 1957 in Michigan, California and Virginia. I am licensed in Virginia as a Licensed Professional Counselor (#0701000931).

I counsel with people from all walks of life in many categories of problems and symptoms.

My clients call me Dr. Joe.

THE FOCUS OF MY PRACTICE: Anxiety and stress are the most common reasons for seeking psychotherapy as well as general medical help.

We spend $800 million a year on anti-anxiety drugs.

Anti-anxiety medication can cost up to $150 per month and more if combined with anti-depressant medications.

According to the US Center for Disease Control, more than half of all deaths between the ages of one and 65 result from stressful lifestyles.

ANXIETY AND STRESS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH: heart attacks, cancer, the common cold, cardiovascular disease, leading to gastrointestinal, skin, neurological, and emotional disorders.

STRESS LEADS TO IMMUNOLOGICAL BREAKDOWNS, which make people especially susceptible to arthritis, AIDS, and a host of other sicknesses.

Over 30% of US adults experience enough stress and anxiety to affect their performance at work or home.

43% of all adults suffer adverse health due to stress.

75-90% of all visits to primary care physicians are stress-related.

Anxiety is such an unpleasant experience that we usually mask it with compulsive solution-seeking rather than asking what its real cause and value is.

MY SPECIALTY FOCUSES ON ANXIETY as the underlying issue in marital conflict, depression, phobias, addictions, and particularly the mid-life crisis.

My operating philosophy of therapy is that anxiety and its consequences hold a hidden life-transforming meaning.

With the proper help a person can understand the positive message of their problem.

The actual cause of suffering is quite unconscious.

Mis-diagnosis of this cause is the most common shortcoming of many of our self-prescribed remedies.

Behavioral, social, emotional and cognitive factors often do not go deep enough to uncover the causal power of our imagination. All symptoms are symbolic of our spiritual nature, and cannot be effectively transformed without going to the very core of oneself.

PRACTICAL ACTIONS follow this inner awareness quite intuitively. Anxiety Therapy provides the tools that a person needs for symptom-transformation.

Symptom transformation begins when you take the big step from believing that you are "a flawed being with an impossible frustrating dream" to realizing that you are "an infinite spiritual being with a flawed story."

SPIRITUAL PSYCHOTHERAPY as I conduct it addresses this story directly, and assists the battle-weary individual in discovering how their most troublesome problems are the door to the beginning of the conscious inner journey to the core of the self.

Once you find this door, miracles manifest on a daily basis.

WHETHER YOUR EXISTENTIAL ANXIETY expresses itself as depression, relationship conflicts, an addiction, an illness, financial stress, guilt, grief or anger, Anxiety Therapy provides some of the tools to quickly get you moving in the right direction in just a few sessions.

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