Has anxiety become an obstacle to your happiness?
Does your anxiety make you feel out of control? Has it started to affect your career and your relationships? Do you wish you could just relax and not feel so worked up all the time?
Has anxiety become an obstacle to your happiness?
Does your anxiety make you feel out of control? Has it started to affect your career and your relationships? Do you wish you could just relax and not feel so worked up all the time?
Perhaps racing thoughts are making it difficult for you to sleep. It feels like you can’t turn your brain off at night as the cycle of worry plays through your mind. You may notice that your palms sweat, your heart races, or your stomach cramps when you’re faced with stressful situations. When these symptoms combine, you may experience an anxiety attack or a panic attack.
You probably wish you knew how to sit still and stay calm, but you feel restless and uncomfortable most of the time. Maybe you overreact to minor things and fly off the handle with little provocation. When you’re irritable and lose your patience at work or home, it could affect your job performance as well as your relationships with those closest to you.
It’s as if anxiety is closing you off from life—you may cancel plans and prefer to keep your distance from others because you fear rejection and worry about what people think of you. As you look for ways to manage your anxiety symptoms with no relief, it can feel like your world is growing smaller and lonelier.
Fortunately, anxiety treatment can help you alleviate the symptoms that make you feel restless and distraught. You can learn how to effectively manage your anxiety so that you enjoy your daily life without the chronic worry and self-doubt.
Although It’s A Common Disorder, Many People Don’t Seek Treatment For Anxiety
Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health condition in the U.S., affecting 40 million adults or 18.1 percent of the population every year.[1] It’s no wonder anxiety is as common as it is. In today’s culture, we are under pressure from all sides to achieve and maintain success in our lives.
The “American Dream” tells us that we need to go to school, land a good job, fall in love, and raise a family in order to achieve happiness. When we fall short of attaining these ideals, we think we’ve failed—and when we internalize this belief, it can shift into anxiety. And if we’ve been raised to be high achievers, we are even more like to be hard on ourselves and sometimes crack under self-imposed pressure.
What’s more, social media has become a mirror that reflects back at us at all times, reminding us of whether or not we’re measuring up to some invisible yardstick. When we compare ourselves to the unrealistic images that people post of themselves on social media, it only serves to ratchet up the stress we are under.
Some of us resist getting help for anxiety because we believe we were just born with it and there’s no way of changing how we feel. For others, it’s the stigma of mental health that prevents us from seeking treatment. And some of us struggle with overcoming anxiety because we convince ourselves that we can solve the problem on our own.
But the good news is that once you decide to get help, anxiety is treatable. It’s possible to identify the ways anxiety impacts your daily life and learn strategies to cope with its effects.
[1] https://adaa.org/understanding-anxiety/facts-statistics
By Learning Healthy Coping Skills, You Can Manage Anxiety
You might have tried turning to self-help books, religion, or online resources to help with your anxiety, to no avail. But in order to make lasting changes in your behavior and achieve peace of mind, it’s vital to explore the root causes of your anxiety with a trained therapist. Therapy gives you the chance to work on yourself and process what you’ve been experiencing in a safe environment where you are permitted to express how you feel without judgment.
In our initial session, I will ask you what has brought you to therapy and we will discuss what sessions will look like in the future. As we get to know each other, I will form an assessment of the best path forward for treatment. We can then collaborate to develop goals and objectives that will help with your anxiety.
As a solution-focused therapist, I will help you identify your strengths as well as guide you to recall times in the past when you were able to successfully solve a problem or reach a goal. I will then teach you how to use those strengths to manage the symptoms you are experiencing. Moreover, I will help you relate your current relationship dynamics, parenting challenges, work stressors, and other present issues to your upbringing or past life events. In this way, you will identify how the patterns and behaviors you developed as a child impact your life situations now. You will learn how to implement new coping skills and self-care practices into your daily routine to ease your anxiety symptoms.
I use several modalities of treatment, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Solution Focused Therapy (SFT). With ACT, I will encourage you to accept the way you feel without judgment or negativity and to commit to the challenges you’re facing rather than hiding from them. With a combination of mindfulness-based therapy, ACT can be an effective treatment for anxiety.[1]
CBT is a leading therapy for anxiety that explores how your thoughts, behaviors, and actions are all connected.[2] Through CBT, I will challenge your negative self-talk while teaching you coping skills—such as grounding techniques and problem-solving skills—to diminish your anxious behaviors.
Meanwhile, SFT identifies tangible and practical solutions to issues that can be resolved in the short term. By focusing on the solution rather than the problem, you will learn that you already possess what you need to make positive changes in your life and control the outcome of situations.
There’s a whole new way of life waiting for you once you decide to seek treatment for anxiety. You can feel more comfortable in your own skin and reclaim the calm connection with yourself that you’ve been missing.
You may believe therapy can help you but you still have questions about anxiety treatment.
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Can you really help me ? I realize that reaching out to someone you’ve never met may push you out of your comfort zone, especially if you’re skeptical that therapy will help you. However, I’ve helped many people manage their anxiety and I feel confident that I can help you, too. You deserve the opportunity to experience a more joyful and fulfilling life, and I believe I have the tools to help you achieve that.
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Can I afford anxiety treatment? There are several ways to cover the cost of therapy. If you have a health savings account, you can use it to pay for treatment. I can also provide you with a superbill to submit to your insurance provider if they cover out-of-network benefits. Otherwise, I also offer sliding scale options for those in need.
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How can I find time to see an anxiety counselor? I am available on evenings and weekends for your convenience. And because I conduct the majority of sessions online, you can receive treatment from the comfort of your own home and don’t have to take additional time commuting to and from my office. Regardless of what your schedule looks like, though, it’s important to put yourself first and prioritize the time you need to make positive changes.
But you may still be wondering whether anxiety treatment is right for you…
Anxiety Doesn’t Have To Define Who You Are
You don’t have to live with constant worry and stress anymore. When you commit to anxiety treatment, your life can change for the better. For a free, 15-minute consultation, please use the contact [1]page