Anxiety is an emotion characterized by several responses to include: worry, fear, a sense of doom or dread, and physical symptoms such as muscle tension and increased heart rate. Anxiety is a normal human reaction to stressful and/or unexpected events. Anxiety becomes unhelpful when it becomes a mainstay in a person’s life that is present even in the absence of that stressful or unexpected event and is difficult to control. Several forms of therapy are effective in the treatment of anxiety. Two of those are Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Although their approaches differ, both of these treatments focus on helping clients identify unhelpful ways of thinking that contribute to unhelpful emotions and behaviors so that a 3 - thoughts, emotions, behaviorse can be addressed and altered and the client can reduce their negative symptom and engage in life in a more adaptive, healthy way.
Is anxiety taking over your life? Does it feel like you can’t control it no matter how hard you try? Have you already tried therapy but found it ineffective?
If this sounds like you, I’m confident I can help. My practice offers the most effective forms of treatment, to get the relief from anxiety that you deserve.
When it comes to treating anxiety disorders, research shows that therapy is usually the most effective option. That’s because anxiety therapy - as opposed to anxiety medication - treats more than just symptoms of the problem.
Often, these are the symptoms of anxiety:
- Nervousness, restlessness, or being tense
- Feelings of danger, panic, or dread
- Rapid breathing or hyperventilation
- Increased or heavy sweating
- Trembling or muscle twitching
- Weakness or lethargy
- Difficulty focusing or thinking clearly about anything other than the thing you’re worried about
- Insomnia
- Obsessions about certain ideas; a sign of obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Anxiety surrounding a particular life event or experience that has occurred in the past; a sign of post-traumatic stress disorder
Therapy can help to uncover the underlying causes of your worries and fears, learn how to relax, look at situations in a new, less frightening way, and develop better coping mechanisms and problem-solving skills.
If you suffer from an anxiety disorder, I invite you to contact me today for a free consultation.