Ground into your emotions.
Is your life limited by your anxious thoughts or excessive worries?
Do you feel stressed, nervous or worried all the time?
Do you experience panic attacks, social anxiety, or constant worry?
It is possible to experience more grounded moments and live a meaningful and fulfilling life.
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Your Committment
We typically begin with weekly therapy sessions, although some individuals may need to come in more and some less in the beginning stages.
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Understanding your Anxiety
Anxiety can present itself in many forms and oftentimes people with anxiety experience both uncomfortable physical symptoms as well as a wide range of emotional problems. There are several categories of anxiety disorders.
Generalized anxiety can feel like a constant stream of anxiety over lots of areas of life. People may experience feeling unsettled and insecure, or a lack of control on a daily basis. If left untreated, these symptoms can become a way of life for individuals.
Panic attacks have a rapid onset and are often unpredictable in nature. Panic attacks often have very scary symptoms, including racing heart, excessive sweat, increased heart rate, dizziness or lightheadedness.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be the result untreated past trauma. It is characterized by flashbacks, hyper-vigilance, emotional numbing and in some cases dissociation.
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Understanding Fear vs. Anxiety
Fear is a present-oriented basic emotion that we experience as an alarm response to help us survive. Fear activates the body to take action to protect itself. When you have a fear response, you might experience rapid heartbeat, increased blood pressure, break out in sweat, shakiness, etc. These are all the body’s way of kicking into overdrive, also known as an adrenaline rush, to help take quick and necessary action to protect itself.
Anxiety is a future-oriented mood emotion. This is partly due to the fact that anxiety tends to be fueled more by what the mind says and thinks. Anxiety can also produce bodily changes similar to fear.
One of the most critical differences between fear and anxiety is that fear is a present-oriented experience and anxiety is based on stresses about the future.
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The Results
During your anxiety treatment, I will help you to:
-Identify and understand your situational triggers
-Use mindfulness to cope with anxiety
-Relate to your thoughts and emotions more effectively
-Identify and take action towards the things that matter most to you