Worry doesn’t have to rule your life
If any of this sounds familiar, please believe you are not alone.
Are you restless? Do you spend all night worrying about the next day? Do you lack focus at work? Do you overplan to feel in control of your life? Do you feel on edge constantly? Do you feel fatigued even after a good night’s rest?
Do not feel ashamed if you are struggling with anxiety.
Living with anxiety can be stressful and overwhelming. Anxiety is a persistent anticipation of future threats that may be real or perceived. Anxiety disorders also include overlapping elements of fear and worry which lead to avoidant behaviors. There are different types of anxiety that include Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and Social Anxiety Disorder.
Anxiety may feel like having an unsettled stomach, a tightness in your chest or your throat, or expecting the worst in certain situations. Anxiety can take over without warning and steal your happiest moments.
According to the National Alliance on Mental Health, anxiety is the most common mental health concern in the United States, affecting over 40 million adults. Your feelings are valid and there is help for your anxiety. Your life does not have to be controlled by fear and worry.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD): GAD is an ongoing, excessive worry about several different things.GAD can also have physical symptoms and lead to other medical conditions.
Social Anxiety Disorder(SAD): SAD involves fear or avoidance of social interactions that involve the possibility of being observed or judged by others. Social anxiety can disrupt your life and keep you from enjoying your relationship and other activities.
Our Approach
We utilize different types of therapies to help our clients work through their anxiety.
Eye-movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy is a body-based therapy that acknowledges the connection between your emotional state and your physical body. It can be used to alleviate suffering and pain and discomfort in the body that you may experience with anxiety. Our stress response is a natural part of fight, flight, or freeze. EMDR helps our brains to reprocess memories that may not have been processed correctly during the event in which the stress response was activated.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) can be used to treat anxiety by teaching skills and providing you with tools that facilitate behavior change. A core component of CBT is the connection between your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. The tools provided during CBT therapy may help you to change negative thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and improve your overall quality of life.
You may believe therapy can help you but you still have questions about anxiety therapy.
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Some symptoms of anxiety that you may experience include an upset stomach or nausea, muscle tension, racing heartbeat, shortness of breath, headaches, and fatigue. It is recommended that your medical doctor rule out any physical conditions that may cause these symptoms before considering anxiety.
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Anxiety can affect your mind. Psychological symptoms of anxiety may include avoidance behaviors like procrastination and canceling plans, concentration and memory issues, sleep disturbances, unrealistic ideas of danger, and having an out-of-body experience(depersonalization).
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Trauma therapy listens, validates, holds space for you and your feelings, educates, and empowers. Trauma therapy helps you confront the things in your life that are holding you back from fulfillment, ease, joy, love and abundance in your life. It gives you a new outlook on life.
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Every person’s experience is different. We try to do what is best for each client’s unique needs. Some clients feel relieved in the first few sessions and other client’s take longer. Those who engage in EMDR may feel better more quickly because this therapy addresses both mind and body and it is designed to be more efficient and less invasive.
Ready to start your healing journey?
Contact us today to schedule a free 15 minute phone call for us to discuss how we can help you.