Anxiety

Anxiety is a terrible feeling.

You’re lying awake in the middle of the night filled with racing thoughts –

What did my boss mean by that?

Will my partner find their way out of this slump?

What will happen with my mother’s recent health testing?

There is so much to worry about and so little control!

Anxiety can manifest as sweating, chest pain, dizziness, irritability and many other symptoms.

It can feel like it hits us out of the blue and like it will never go away.

Often anxiety is the result of underlying unexpressed emotions, but how do we sort all that out!?

We are here to help.

We help clients look at anxiety symptoms with less judgment and more kindness.

Together we will look at your thoughts, emotions, and actions, and see what patterns emerge.

We will help you learn how to hold up a magnifying glass to your internal experience of anxiety and gain insight about what is happening and how to respond.

Ending the tug of war.

Many of us approach anxiety by trying to push it down and ignore it or by arguing with our anxious thoughts to try to make them go away.

But often in this tug of war with anxiety, the best strategy is to drop our side of the rope. Letting go of the fight can feel scary.

Letting it come up and out.

Many of us approach anxiety by trying to push it down or ignore it to make it go away.

But often acceptance and kindness are more effective strategies for coping with anxiety.

Finding freedom from anxiety.

You can learn to be curious rather than judgmental about your anxious thoughts and emotional patterns. You can learn to respond to your anxiety with gentleness.

With the skills you learn in therapy, you can experience true freedom from the hold anxiety has in your life.