Let’s face it.
Life is stressful.
All the effort for life achievements can be exhausting.
Plus, caring for yourself, your family, friends, and loved ones
can make things even more overwhelming.
If anxiety, frustration, fear get your way, you may need some help.
Therapy, guidance, and counseling for anxiety may be of benefit to you.
What types of therapy are available for anxiety?
A therapeutic experience should offer
- validation of your experience
- insight and understanding to how anxiety functions in your life
- cheerleading to motivate you for self-care and positive action
- problem solving to improve your knowledge, skills, and abilities to make your life work.
How does Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) work for anxiety?
Can Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) help with anxiety?
Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) work to help you understand thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
Learn to self-regulate, tolerate stress, be present in the moment and build strong relationships.
Improve your sense of agency so that you can recognize the impact of your emotions and cognitions on your behavior allowing you to use your talents to build a good life.
What should I expect during my first therapy session for anxiety?
In your first therapy session, you will be able to help me as a psychologist understand your experience by describing your background, current situation, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
Together, we can discuss what motivates you for therapy and upon what goals you would like to focus.
We will begin to build a positive working relationship focused on how you can make progress in sessions and throughout the rest of your life.
We will begin to understand the function of your actions and describe how your healthy preferences can become strong coping mechanisms for your sustainable, peaceful living.
We will create and begin to implement a plan to meet short- and long-term goals.
What are some common coping strategies taught in therapy for anxiety?
Techniques include:
Stress management
Cognitive reframing
Emotion regulation
Interpersonal effectiveness
Mindfulness and meditation
Using wisdom to build sustained effectiveness.
Improving agency, self-efficacy, and self-determination.
Are there any effective self-help strategies for managing anxiety?
There are so many possible effective self-help strategies for you to learn.
Typically, I begin treatment by increasing your access, understanding, and use of customized strategies that help you with self-regulation.
We learn how to organize your preferred strategies in structured ways that improve your impact.
People often feel relief through this teaching and learning process because they recognize that what they like can be used for their health and benefit. They see that they can harness their own power and be interdependent to make their life work.
How long does it typically take to see improvements with anxiety therapy?
Every person is different. Commitment to understanding and practice can lead to gains in a quicker manner.
People feel liberation. People can gain liberation more quickly when they realize they have a lot to offer.
We seek to build positive feedback loops where the payoff of positive action leads to the investment in more positive action.
The goal is to increase the acquisition of more tools so that you can make gains across multiple aspects of your lives.
Can therapy help with anxiety-related insomnia or physical symptoms?
It can be possible. Goals include learning
- how to calm down the nervous system
- how to radically accept problems
- how build plans to solve situations using wisdom and not excessive emotion or hyper rationality.
Increasing the use of power and effectiveness can help improve overall functioning across all hours of the day.
How do you know it’s anxiety?
What are the symptoms of anxiety?
Who gets anxiety and why?
Symptoms can include physical sweating, sleep issues, chills, feelings of fear/agitation/terror, catastrophizing or futurizing, and needing to isolate, or run/flee.
Anxiety is a common reaction to stress. It can be a positive motivator that something is wrong that is in need of attention.
If you are having symptoms, we can work collaboratively to help you understand what is happening, gain skills for sustained effectiveness and avail yourself for a good life.
What are the signs that I might need therapy for anxiety?
If fear or anxiety starts to intefere with or take over your life… you may need some help.
When should you see a therapist for anxiety?
If something is bothering you and it is interfering with your overall function, interest, ability for building a peaceful life, make a call. You deserve to use your wisdom to make improvements and find relief.
Seek a doctoral-level practitioner who can meet you where you are at in this moment in your life.
Seeking Therapy?
- Find a doctoral-level practitioner who can help define your values, improve strengths, and raise abilities to overcome challenges.
Seek a doctoral-level practitioner who has extensive training and experience with behavioral health therapy.
Seek a doctoral-level practitioner who can support you in several states around the country.
Seek a doctoral-level practitioner who can connect your experience in therapy to tangible ways to improve multiple aspects of your life.
Seek a doctoral-level practitioner who can help you gain the necessary skills to make your life better.
