Anxiety Therapy

Did You Know You Can Learn To Interrupt Those Anxious Thoughts Through Counseling for Anxiety?

You can use techniques to control your thoughts—to challenge them—to feel calm again and take control of your body.

What if things do work out?

What if all the work does pay off?

What if I get to keep my job?

What if they end up loving me as an employee?

What if I can do it?

What if I focus on things I love to get me through this?

I feel anxious, but so what? I know what it feels like, and I will get through it?

What if I can learn from this, and it will be easier next time?

What if I choose to see my challenges as an opportunity?

The Solution Is Changing How You Think… One Step At A Time Through Anxiety Therapy.

And when you change the way you think, you’ll change the way you feel.

Bringing awareness to your thoughts…

It’s important to understand your worries and fears.

The way we think (our cognitions) and what we do (our behavior) affect how we feel. If we want to change the way we feel, we will need to change the way we think and act.

A anxiety therapist can help you, using a thought record to help you recognize and change your unhelpful thoughts. To get you into the habit of paying attention to your thoughts and working to change them.

These make our negative automatic thoughts visible to us, help us identify problems with our thinking, and help us make changes to our thinking.

During anxiety treatment, we will be helping and teaching you how to pay attention to what is going on in your mind, particularly when you notice a change in how you feel.

• What was going through your mind?
• What were you thinking?
• What were you anticipating or expecting?
• What were you predicting would happen?

Identifying and correcting negative beliefs about yourself…

In anxiety therapy, we will utilize worksheets, journaling, and talk therapy. We will look at your core beliefs of self, gather evidence that these statements are true, and working on replacing them with positive beliefs about yourself.

Some questions one of our anxiety therapists will be asking:

• What’s terrible about experiencing anxiety about yourself?
• When you first notice anxiety getting intense, what goes through your mind about it?

During anxiety therapy will be looking at the advantages and disadvantages of these beliefs and how they serve you.

• How do we know this is true?
• What evidence do you have that this automatic thought is true?
• What evidence is there that the thought is true or not completely accurate?
• What is the evidence that your thought is true – that people will be critical of you?
• Is there any evidence on the side that people may not be critical?

In anxiety treatment, we will do go through scenarios to test your thoughts. For example: what makes me think this thought is true? What’s the worst that could happen? What’s the best that can happen? What is most likely to happen?

Showing you what it means to get in touch with your body…

When you are dealing with anxiety, it can be difficult to feel like your body supports you. An element in healing and getting stronger is inviting your body to help you, to be a resource.

Notice: what you feel in and around your body. How is your speed of breath, heart rate, body temperature?
Think back to calm/safety: a time when you felt the calmest and safe – most like your “self.”
Identify: identify a point in time and which part of your body began experiencing stress.
Replay: replay the situation in your mind like you are watching a movie (watching everyone in it and watching what you are doing).
Tune in: what do you notice in your body sensations: tensing, warming, cooling, a change in body temperature?
Healing hands/somatic experience: placing your hands on your body to release the tension – noticing what comes up for you… images, sensations, awareness, or anything that offers clarity for you.

Questions we sometimes ask to get in touch with your body:

• What is your emotion (sad, mad, anxious, etc.)?
• How intense is that emotion (0-100%)?
• What are you feeling in your body?

Teaching you how to relax and soothe yourself…

Guiding you through relaxation exercises:

A simple controlled breathing exercise- showing you how to properly breathe when you are in the face of anxiety or panic.

A Progressive muscle relaxation exercise- going through all your muscles in your body to focus all your attention on specific parts of your body.

Mindfulness of attention control exercise where we will identify your worry, rate it, and then place an object in front of you that you will look at while thinking of the stressful situation.

Exercises you can try at home, outside of sessions.

You May Still Have Questions or Concerns about Anxiety Treatment…

Does online therapy for anxiety work?

Research shows that online therapy is just as effective as in-person. Most people love online therapy because it allows you to be in your own environment and space You never have to miss a session either because you can talk to us from your home! During online anxiety treatment, we welcome your animals to be by your side to help calm the nerves!

Do I have to be on medication?

You don’t have to be on medication to cure anxiety. Sometimes medication can help, but we teach our clients how to manage anxiety without medication. 

How long will my anxiety treatment Last?

It depends based on what your anxiety looks like and if you are willing to do the work in between session. We are here to dig deep into the anxiety, help you manage the anxiety through talking, and applying the tools you learn in session to your life when you leave.