Bipolar Disorder Therapy

Looking for a therapist in Kentucky for bipolar or other related mood disorder?

Bipolar disorder can affect more than just mood—it can impact relationships, work, sleep, and your sense of stability. Many people with bipolar disorder experience cycles of depression and periods of elevated or irritable mood that feel difficult to predict or control. At New Step Therapy, our clinicians provide supportive, evidence-based bipolar disorder treatment to help individuals better understand their mood patterns, build emotional regulation skills, and create greater consistency in daily life. Through personalized therapy and collaborative care, we help clients move toward balance, clarity, and long-term stability.

Bipolar disorder, once referred to as manic depressive disorder, doesn’t look the same for everyone. Individuals with bipolar disorder experience intense “mood episodes” or also known as “mood swings”. These episodes present as extreme elevated moods known as manic episode and extreme ‘lows’ known as depressive episodes.

Manic Episode Signs:

• Period of rapid or excessive talking

• Period of racing thoughts

• Period of engaging in impulsive or reckless behaviors

• Increased in irritability

• Elated mood or period of ‘feeling really good’

• Significant decrease in need of sleep with higher energy

• Having unrealistic belief in one’s abilities for a period of time

• Some may experience psychosis

• May experience thoughts of delusion

Depressive Episode Signs:

• Feeling tired or fatigue

• Moving sluggish or at a slower pace then typical

• Isolating from others

• May experience thoughts of suicide or self harming

• Change in eating patterns or sleep patterns

• Reporting feeling down or depressed

• Feeling of hopelessness

• Loss of interests or motivation

These symptoms can often misdiagnosed with other diagnoses and is important to be assessed and diagnosed by a mental health provider to ensure you receive an accurate diagnosis and treatment plan for you. Bipolar disorder can often have a negative impact on clients life that includes maintaining healthy relationships, trouble with work or school, and keeping up with demands to name a few.

Signs of bipolar disorder.

Learn More About Bipolar Therapy Treatment Options at New Step Therapy Today!

If you have been feeling like your emotions are out of control, interfering with work or your personal hygiene or maybe it is keeping you from maintaining healthy relationships. It may be time to explore therapy. At New Step Therapy, we utilize modalities such as cognitive behavior therapy to help you better understand your mood patterns, develop coping and emotion regulation skills, and improve consistency in your life.

New Step Therapy provides in person therapy in our Lexington, KY office and online throughout Kentucky.

Therapy for bipolar disorder.