Anxiety

Most of the people I've worked with have struggled with anxiety at some point. It can be easy to get trapped and dragged around by anxious thoughts and feelings. We'll work on skills to help you "unhook" from those thoughts and feelings so that you can more fully engage in the parts of your life that you find the more satisfying and engaging.

I believe that addressing feelings and understanding where they stem from, and how to manage them, can help alleviate anxiety and depression.

As someone who has struggled with anxiety my whole life, I know what a monster it can feel like. Your anxiety can start to sound like the only voice in your head and becomes hard to differentiate between yourself and the fear. With CBT and ERP methods, we will reclaim the voice in your head and bring a sense of control and calmness back into your life.

It’s easy to brush anxiety off as a simple act of worrying too much. For every person who suffers from anxiety, there seems to be someone waiting in the wings waiting to tell them their anxiety is not real. As we work to bring more awareness and reduce the stigma surrounding anxiety, it’s important to continue to offer support and treatment options for people who are affected by such conditions. At Grief Recovery Center, we can help you navigate your anxiety.

Depression, fear, and anxiety are some of the most common and uncomfortable emotions that we can experience at some point in our lives. Through counseling and treatment, we are able to help you recover motivation, perspective, and joy that you once had in your life.

I understand how anxiety can feel all encompassing and overwhelming. It's easy to think that how you feel will never end and that there isn't a solution. But, there is. In sessions with clients, I first seek to determine what coping skill they have and to help them explore further ones to help them experience relief from their symptoms. I then like to explore what could be underlying their anxiety and to work towards resolving it.

I specialize in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, a science-based model of behavior change. My clients learn skills and strategies that they can immediately incorporate in their lives. I often focus on the science of genuine happiness, new ways of responding to emotional pain, how to take the power out of anxiety, and how to break free from self-criticism and self-hate.

I provide clients with numerous strategies to help them feel in control of their anxiety levels. I assist clients in helping them feel calmer and more in control of their thoughts and feelings.

Along your journey to overcoming anxiety, I will work to listen, validate, and explore potential solutions to your problems. All potential solutions that I discuss with you will be evidenced based. This means that various scientific studies on the “solution” have taken place making it scientifically proven to work for most people. By the end of therapy, you'll have an array of coping skills you can use to deal with life’s stressors.

I use a CBT approach to assist client in identifying, challenging, and reframing anxious/problematic thought patterns.

Anxiety is the body’s response to a real or perceived threat. It’s an alert system that signals us to fight, freeze, or flee. At times, this alert system may overreact, and the anxiety may become unproductive, potentially even debilitating. Anxiety is different for everyone, but some of the symptoms include a racing heartbeat, rapid breathing, panic attacks, chronic tension, sweating or hot flashes, or worrisome and ruminating thoughts.

Coping Skills Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Psychodynamic Therapy

I help with all forms of anxiety - general anxiety, panic attacks, social anxiety, and more.

Addressing anxiety in counseling is crucial because it can severely disrupt a person's life, affecting their relationships, work or school performance, and overall happiness. Untreated anxiety can lead to chronic stress, physical health problems, and avoidance behaviors that limit life experiences. Counseling helps alleviate anxiety so that clients can experience improved emotional well-being, increased confidence in managing challenges, and enhanced overall quality of life.

Anxiety is the most logical response to trauma, difficult childhood experiences, bullying, oppression, abuse, and capitalism. It is the warning bell that tells us something is wrong, and something definitely is wrong or has been wrong. But sometimes that bell goes off even when we don't need it to, disrupting our lives. The work we do in therapy is to help that alarm work as it's supposed to, when it is supposed to.

A feeling that is meant to protect us and keep us safe can take on a life of its own and become overwhelming. The energy spent on anxiety, nervousness, fear, and dread can come out in a variety of ways but is always exhausting and restricting. Together we can develop awareness of your symptoms and triggers and then develop coping strategies to help you reclaim ownership of your life.