Therapy for Anxiety
"Choose what makes your heart bloom." -Dhiman-
Are you more focused on avoiding fear than on your life? Does it feel like you can’t control it no matter how hard you try? Have you already tried therapy but found it ineffective?
If this sounds like you, I’m confident I can help. My practice offers the most effective forms of therapy to get the relief from anxiety that you deserve. Research shows that cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, is one of the most effective psychotherapies for anxiety disorders.
CBT treats more than just the symptoms of the problem. It directly changes your responses to fearful situations, changes your fearful thinking patterns, and opens up your life by changing avoidance behaviors.
Often, these are the symptoms of anxiety:
- Nervousness, restlessness, or being tense
- Feelings of danger, panic, or dread
- Rapid breathing or hyperventilation
- Increased or heavy sweating
- Trembling or muscle twitching
- Weakness or lethargy
- Difficulty focusing or thinking clearly about anything other than the thing you’re worried about
- Insomnia
- Obsessions about certain ideas; a sign of obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Anxiety surrounding a particular life event or experience that has occurred in the past; a sign of post-traumatic stress disorder
- Avoidance
Anxiety isn't always bad. In fact, some anxiety is important to keep us alert and alive. When it goes beyond a certain threshhold, however, it can significantly impact our lives. Therapy can help to uncover the underlying causes of your worries and fears, look at situations in a new, less frightening way, and develop better coping mechanisms and problem-solving skills.
If you're suffering with anxiety, I invite you to contact me today for a consultation.