Therapy for Anxiety
Anxiety is the alarm that won't turn off. Whether it shows up in your body, in your thoughts, or both—it can be exhausting.
Sometimes it's quieter — the constant low hum of worry, the inability to fully relax, the sense that you should be doing something about something.
No matter how it shows up for you, there's a clear path forward.
Anxiety often makes more sense once you understand its history. Most of the time, it's protecting you from something that no longer needs protecting against.
- Generalized anxiety: worry that won't let up, "what if" questions that never stop.
- Panic: when anxiety blindsides you with feelings that may seem like a medical emergency or like you are losing it.
- Social anxiety: when one of the scariest things imaginable is the judgement of others.
- High-functioning anxiety: the kind that drives the high performance and the burnout in the same breath
- Anxiety from caregivers or family of origin: what we learned about safety, security, and trust
- The somatic side: tight chest, shallow breathing, restless sleep, gut issues, jaw and shoulder tension
Anxiety is a big umbrella that can benefit from a variety of approaches. Let us determine what approach fits best for you. This may mean interpersonal, emotion-focused, skills training, or behavioral approaches. It could also take the shape of understanding what is behind the anxious thoughts and difficult feelings.
We work on the practical level: identifying the patterns that fuel the worry, gradually changing the behaviors that maintain it, and building resilience for tolerating uncertainty. We also work on the deeper level: what your nervous system has learned to expect, where it learned that, and what it would mean to live with less of that vigilance running in the background.
Anxiety often makes more sense once you understand its history. Most of the time, it's protecting you from something that no longer needs protecting against.
What do we mean when we say anxiety?: What we call anxiety may actually be a number of things, each of which are treated best in different ways. A phobia of driving might respond best to one kind of treatment, while anxiety that comes from childhood dynamics will respond better to another kind of treatment. We will take time together to learn your experience of anxiety, and tackle it with the approach that fits best.
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