Anxiety Therapy

Are Your Emotions Out Of Control?

Do you often feel anxious, panicked, frustrated, or afraid? Perhaps your head is filled with worries about the future and thoughts of worst-case scenarios. You may also be afraid that you’ll say or do something wrong, putting you constantly on guard. 

Do you ever wonder why you seem to struggle with your emotions more than others do? Your fear of being judged, disliked, or abandoned may prevent you from truly connecting with others. As a result, you may feel lonely and misunderstood, which only intensifies your suffering. You may also blame yourself for your predicament.

Is emotional distress making you physically unwell? Maybe you have tension or pain in your back, neck, or stomach. You may also be suffering from headaches, digestive issues, or shortness of breath. Depression, panic attacks, or other anxiety-related issues may also be cropping up. 

While it may be hard to tolerate these difficult emotions, having an engaging and direct therapist can help you to connect the dots, see the blind spots, and identify patterns in the tapestry of your life. Anxiety therapy can also help you to identify anxiety triggers and expand your capacity to deal with frustration.

Your Anxiety Is Not Your Fault

Why are some people overwhelmed by their anxiety while others seem less affected? For most anxiety sufferers, the answer lies in their formative years. If you were abused or neglected, experienced some form of trauma, or were at any point made to feel physically or emotionally unsafe, your nervous system would have been sensitized to stress, heightening your response to it. This hypersensitivity can stick around after the initial stressor has gone. Unless the emotional wound underlying your agitated state is addressed, you may find yourself stuck in a state of near-constant emotional overwhelm.

Fortunately, your emotional woundedness doesn’t have to run your life. When you give your mental health the attention it deserves by working with a skilled anxiety therapist, you welcome and accelerate the healing process. 

Anxiety Therapy Can Help You To No Longer Have Fear Run Your Life

One of the most difficult things about dealing with anxiety is how isolating it can be. If you’re like many of my past clients, your friends and loved ones were unable to understand you or provide the right support during those times when you needed them most. As a result, you may find it difficult to share your feelings or rely on others.

As an anxiety therapist, I provide a safe, nonjudgmental place where you can authentically share your thoughts and feelings. The opportunity to spend time with someone who can honor and empathize with you and who will really “get it” will be extremely validating. The openness, compassion, and integrity I employ in relating to you can also teach you healthier ways of relating to yourself.

Therapy can help you quiet your inner condemning voice. You may have picked up negative thought patterns from your childhood caregivers, but recognizing them can lessen their power over you. You can learn during this process how to “re-parent” yourself, and your inner voice can become more patient and kind. 

Anxiety therapy can help you recognize your inherent value as a human being (not just a “human doing”). You can develop a sense of inner security as your own value becomes more clear to you. As you internalize what is true, you can discover your own authentic voice. I will also teach you practical ways to relieve your anxiety when it does arise.

I’ve seen people with extreme anxiety go through incredible transformations with the help of therapy. For example, many clients that I’ve worked with have suffered the effects of trauma and lived with overwhelming fear and anxiety. With their commitment to therapy, they courageously overcame many of their issues related to anxiety and learned to communicate and feel their emotions rather than stuff them. During this process, their relationships were also greatly improved. Like them, I believe your own woundedness can be healed, you can learn to better manage your anxiety, and you can stop making peace with powerlessness. 

As you consider anxiety therapy you may wonder. . . 

Is it really worth the investment? I have limited time and resources.

Going to anxiety counseling may seem like just another item on your endless to-do list, but it can have a far deeper and more meaningful impact than any of your other tasks. The confidence and calm you can develop during anxiety counseling can help you decrease the feeling of being overwhelmed that makes it hard to endure life’s pressures (including those relating to time and money). You can also experience being less intimidated by the various challenges that come up in your career and relationships and being more able to deal with them (rather than avoid them). Making an investment in therapy is also a commitment, as you are making a wise, nurturing, and growth-producing decision for your life.

Therapy didn’t help me before. How will this be different?

In the same way that you may not immediately recognize your potential for growth in a certain area, your prior therapist(s) may have brought their own unrecognized issues into session; in my own experiences with therapists, I have met many who have clearly missed the mark.

Being a therapist is a work of the heart, mind, and spirit. It is a calling, not just a job. In order to facilitate this truly sacred process, it is essential that the therapist has done and continues to do their own inner work. They must also recognize that trust, safety, and security are essential to a therapeutic relationship that facilitates deep healing. If your prior therapist failed to recognize this, dishonored you, or failed to understand your issues, you may fear being reinjured. I will do everything I can to ensure that does not happen.

I’m not sure this is the best time for me to enter anxiety therapy.

The sooner you start therapy, the sooner you can start addressing your issues. Therapy isn’t a quick fix; it can take time to get in touch with things about yourself that may have been hidden for a long time. However, if you start therapy, you’ll be one step closer to not letting anxiety and frustration have a hold on your life.

You Don’t Have To Feel Stressed And Worried All The Time

Becoming emotionally healthy and connected can improve every part of your life. By visiting my website, you’ve taken the first step toward hope, healing, change, and growth. I look forward to hearing from you so we can talk about this some more.. Give me a call so we can begin!

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