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Therapy for Anxiety

Anxiety is part of the human experience, serving as an alarm system for the body and the mind to pay attention to something.

While this can be helpful in some circumstances, it can become problematic when it comes up too often, too intensely, and/or when it starts to interfere with your quality of life.

Anxiety can show up as excessive worries, panic attacks, compulsive behaviors, flashbacks and nightmares, obsessive thoughts, and more.

These experiences can lead to avoidance of things that matter to you, problems with work and relationships, and even health issues.

It can get better! Therapy can help you learn how to recognize the specific ways your anxiety shows up and what you can do about it.

How Therapy Can Help with Anxiety

Learn to take control of your anxiety rather than your anxiety controlling you.

Using evidence-based treatment approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and exposure-based treatments, therapy can teach you ways to increase awareness of the causes of your anxiety, the specific skills that can help you manage it effectively, and proactive approaches to help you move forward with more resilience and awareness of any prompting events for your anxiety (like stressful family events, work issues, trauma reminders, and so on).

Recognize Cues

Recognizing the ways anxiety manifests is an important first step, including how it arises in thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and also how it is impacting different aspects of life.

Practice Methods

There are many methods that can help with anxiety, from calming the stress response to learning how to deal with overwhelming thoughts. These methods can be practiced both in and outside of sessions. I’ll help you practice them and figure out when you can use them in your daily life.

Learn to Approach

Working at a pace that works for you, we’ll also make plans for how to courageously approach situations you may have previously avoided so that anxiety is no longer holding you back from what you want in your life.

Ready to Connect?

Get in touch or set up a free 20-minute phone consultation by clicking below. We’ll talk about what’s coming up for you, how I can help, and what happens next.