Is Anxiety Stopping You From Living The Life You Want?
- Have you been struggling with feelings of isolation?
- Is a lack of confidence holding you back?
- Do you have trouble relaxing?
- Are you no longer enjoying the things in life that should bring joy?
When you’re experiencing the symptoms of anxiety, it can make everything in your life seem more challenging. Perhaps you’re feeling the physical manifestations of anxiety in your body and experiencing headaches, tightness in your chest, or a nervous stomach. In some cases, anxiety may even lead to panic attacks that can cause fast heart palpitations and rapid, shallow breathing.
If anxiety is affecting your sleep, you could be feeling exhausted all the time. As a result, you may find it difficult to concentrate or lack the motivation to complete tasks at work, school, or around the house.
Because untreated anxiety not only causes pain in your body but also your mind, you may have found ways of numbing yourself to it. You could be masking your symptoms with alcohol, drugs, or another type of addiction. These forms of emotional avoidance can lead to other unwanted outcomes like problems at your job, school, or withdrawal from those who are close to you.
Moreover, your anxiety could be impacting your social interactions and eroding your ability to relate to others. If you’re uncomfortable in social situations, emotional avoidance could, in this case, lead to more isolation and, in turn, more feelings of unhappiness, unworthiness, and a false belief you are unlovable.
Fortunately, anxiety therapy is an effective treatment to help you learn to be your best self and find more joy and love in your life.
Anxiety Is On The Increase In Our Fast-Paced Culture
Despite the fact many of us feel like we’re alone with our suffering, the reality is anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the United States, affecting 40 million adults in the United States age 18 and older.
Some of us are prone to anxiety because we were taught to suppress, rather than express, our feelings. In other instances, we have lived through anxiety-provoking experiences, such as the divorce of our parents (or our own divorce), the loss of a loved one, or various forms of physical, emotional, or sexual trauma.
Further contributing to the rise of anxiety are the stressors prevalent in today’s modern world. It seems at times we are in constant motion, never getting the chance to catch our breath.
The demands and expectations of multi-tasking between work and home have left many of us feeling overwhelmed. Our minds are kept overstimulated by the barrage of information we are exposed to on our phones and computers. Social media in particular can make us feel “less than” as we compare ourselves to a standard of perfection that doesn’t exist in reality.
The fast pace of life keeps us from slowing down and staying still in our bodies long enough to recognize what we’re feeling. Unless we change this, overcoming anxiety will remain out of reach for us.
The good news is that the symptoms of anxiety no longer have to dominate your life. By understanding your emotions and choosing a different way to respond to difficult circumstances, you will gain self-confidence and a positive perspective. You can develop your sense of worth and discover how to love yourself.
Anxiety Treatment Is An Effective Way For You To Find Peace And Restore Calm
As a solution-focused therapist, I have seen the benefits of therapy in identifying, processing, and resolving the core issues that lie at the heart of anxiety. Our sessions together will provide you a safe place to genuinely express your feelings, process pain, and examine the unresolved emotions taking up space inside your body and psyche.
During our first session, we will begin to build a safe alliance where you will be seen and listened to with intention and accepted for who you are. Our initial introduction gives me a chance to ask the relevant questions about your background, family of origin, and life experiences to help me put into context the issues you wish to explore and resolve.
As we continue to work together, you will learn to better understand what drives your behavior and what emotions lie beneath your negative patterns of relating to yourself and others. I will hold the emotions you are feeling with you in a way you are seldom able to experience with your loved ones.
Having the space to examine these emotions together creates a sense of safety and the ability for you to look at what you’ve been suppressing inside, allowing you to finally let negative emotions and beliefs go. When you feel heard and understood, especially when processing a negative experience, you will begin to feel hopeful again.
The mind-body connection plays a vital role in my approach to treating anxiety. By incorporating mindfulness, meditation, and breathwork, I will help you become the witness of your anxiety—not the victim of it—allowing you to remain in your center, even when you’re stressed or overwhelmed.
I also incorporate Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR), and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). These modalities have been proven to address the root causes of anxiety rather than just its symptoms.
Disturbing experiences create negative emotions which get wired into our brains as negative irrational beliefs. In EMDR therapy, we address the emotional distortions underlying anxiety and help you replace the negative beliefs with more positive, adaptive ones that reflect your basic nature of goodness and love. TIR takes the emotional charge away from disturbing incidents of the past by using talk therapy and active listening. Emotionally focused therapy is a research-based approach to help you access, process, and resolve your emotions to overcome anxiety.
Once you’ve freed yourself from anxiety, your negative beliefs are replaced with positive ones so you can live with serenity, joy, and love. You will be able to stay focused in the present, improve your self-esteem, and become more assertive in getting what you want in all areas of your life.
But you may still be wondering whether anxiety treatment is right for you…
I have lived with anxiety for as long as I can remember so I don’t see how therapy will help.
Just because you’ve gotten used to living with anxiety, that shouldn’t be a valid reason to continue doing it. Taking the time to discover the root causes of anxiety in a safe, accepting space through therapy offers you the chance to replace it with a sense of peace and calm. Rather than letting anxiety have tyranny over you, you’re choosing a different way to respond to difficult circumstances, allowing the anxious state to disappear and be replaced with confidence, clarity, and radiance.
Anxiety treatment is something I have tried in the past but it’s never helped me.
I am confident my approach to therapy can help you. By using various techniques including breathwork, mindfulness, meditation, and yoga, you will recognize how much emotion is held in the body and how to let it go. On top of that, the other therapies I use (EMDR, TIR, and EFT) have also been proven to be effective treatments for anxiety. Most importantly, however, is that I will be there to ensure you are truly heard, seen, and felt.
Isn’t anxiety treatment time-consuming and expensive?
Attending therapy is time worth making for yourself. I offer teletherapy several days a week, saving you the time to drive to and from my office, and I can attest these virtual sessions are as intimate and rewarding as in-person visits. Moreover, it’s hard to put a price on your well-being. When you consider how life-changing it will be to rid yourself of anxiety, it’s a worthwhile investment to make.
It’s Time To Live The Life You Deserve
You don’t have to live with anxiety anymore. Being free of it will bring you back to your center where perpetual peace resides. For a free, 15-minute consultation, please feel free to contact me.
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Let’s talk about what high-functioning anxiety looks like and how you know it’s time to seek help.
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