Therapy for Anxiety
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 can help. My practice offers the most effective forms of treatment, to get the relief from anxiety that you deserve. I utilize a combination of Cognitive Behavioral and Dialectical Behavioral therapy to teach how you change your perception of events and using DBT distress tolerance coping skills to manage the anxiety. If a particular event is causing you anxiety, we may also try Exposure Response Prevention to habituate to the anxiety of that event.
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
If you suffer from an anxiety disorder, I invite you to contact me today for a free consultation.