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Social workers for your area are listed online. Like other counseling, they come with a price tag you may be able to avoid with your own research into your own special needs.
Do fill us in and let's see if we can give you any guidance to start with right here.
Do also go to the top AgingCare timeline and look for the word "topics". You will find a lot of things listed in alphabetical order.
Best out to you and welcome to the Forum.
Katereena, it might be good to put the ‘decisions’ to one side now, and research the options. This site is a good place to start. If you click on Care Topics on the top right of the screen, you get an alphabetic list. Click on A, then on Assisted Living - - or S or N – to find out about those options. Then keep going to see many expert articles, questions and discussions about a very very large number of topics. This is all free, and doesn’t involve travel time or appointments.
When you know more, you will be able to ask more relevant questions. If you pay for counseling now, you spend a lot to find out a huge amount of information that won’t be relevant.
Many therapists today use behavioral counseling practices, such as cognitive behavioral therapy. The client learns strategies to deal with the problem behavior--in this case, the OP has suggested anxiety as a problem--that do not involve deep delving into one's past nor gathering huge amounts of information.
https://www.areaagingsolutions.org/
You will find quiet a bit of info here and a phone number to ask about a social worker.
If OP is still with us, your County Office of Aging is where you may want to start.
Do send me a private message letting me know, if you wish, the way in which you feel I condescended to you. Am certainly willing to discuss it with you. Otherwise, not knowing how I offended you, I will offer my sincere apology to you for having done so.
Take care.
My mother had an extremely annoying saying she used constantly:
"It's a great life if you don't weaken."
She'd heard it somewhere and latched onto it forevermore.
To her, showing weakness was a flaw, a vice, an embarrassment.
To me, showing weakness is a sign of humility and imperfection.
Press on OP, I hope you find the help you need.
Contact your local Senior Center or in some areas it is a Senior Service Center in addition to all the activities they provide they often have Social Workers on staff. Depending on the help that you need they may even have programs that they can get you into.
Depending on the type of help that you need your Doctor's office might be able to refer you to someone that might be able to help you.
You need to tell us what help you are exactly looking for.
It would be nice if you could tell us what kind of needs you have. Then we can point u in the right direction.