Experience a Greater Sense of Calm, Confidence, and Control as You Learn to Create a Life You Truly Love
Whether anxiety keeps sneaking up on you – chronic stress, overwhelm, irritability, perfectionism, procrastination, or avoidance that seems to creep into everything you do …
Or your anxiety hits you like a wave from out of nowhere – panic attacks or phobias that feel sudden, terrifying, and completely out of your control …
I know just how frustrating and debilitating living with anxiety can be.
You probably feel like you’’ve tried just about everything … yet nothing you do seems to help, at least not for long.
After a while, you can start to give up hope as anxiety slowly drains all of the satisfaction and joy from your life.
But there is still hope. And help is available.
You can learn to not only cope with anxiety’s symptoms, but work through and resolve the underlying issues that are causing it.
Anxiety is about a lot more than simply “worrying.” It’s the way your mind won’t stop scanning for all of the things that can and will go wrong.
It’s the constant mental replaying and second-guessing: “Did I say the wrong thing?” “Did I miss something?” “What if this falls apart?” “What if I disappoint someone?” “What if I fail?”
And anxiety doesn’t just burrow its way into your thoughts – it makes its home in your body, too.
Your chest tightens. Your shoulders are always tense. Your stomach does gymnastics. Your focus and attention keep slipping away. And a good night’s sleep becomes something you can’t even dream of having.
Even when life seems “fine,” some part of you stays on high alert … vigilantly waiting for the next shoe to drop.
And the hardest part? Doing your best just to keep on “keeping on” – you’re functioning, you’re holding it all together, but you feel more exhausted with each passing day.
If any of this feels familiar, I want you to know: you’re not alone. And you don’t have to keep struggling this way.
Anxiety counseling and therapy can help you learn practical tools to start feeling calmer and more grounded right away, as well as do the deeper work necessary to heal, grow, and start moving forward with a greater sense of calm, confidence, and control.
Ready to get started?
If so, I invite you to reach out today, schedule a free 15-minute initial phone consultation, and learn more about how anxiety counseling and therapy can help you.
How Anxiety Counseling & Therapy Can Help
You may already be aware of the source of your anxiety: a stressful job, a difficult relationship, a major life transition, an illness, a breakup, financial pressure, parenting stress.
Or your anxiety may be tied to something deeper – a protective response your nervous system learned for a reason, but that’s no longer serving you.
In either case, if anxiety is starting to take its toll on your relationships and life, you owe it to yourself to get some help.
Anxiety counseling and therapy are about much more than learning to “relax a little” or “think positive.”
This is about helping you understand your patterns, work with your nervous system, and build a new relationship with your thoughts – so anxiety no longer runs the show.
What’s more, anxiety doesn’t exist in a vacuum. A variety of issues are often intertwined with anxiety, which is why we’ll also work together to help you:
- Navigate any confidence or career concerns
- Work through relationship and communication difficulties
- Resolve any nagging self-doubts or excessive self-criticism
- Overcome burnout, perfectionism, and fears of failure
- Set and maintain healthy boundaries that allow you take care of yourself and others
These patterns are often tied to attachment wounds from the past – experiences that have shaped what you believe about yourself, others, and the world around you and taught you to stay vigilant, stay small, overperform, over-explain, or keep your guard up.
The good news is: these patterns can all be changed.
In our work together, we’ll focus on two primary goals:
- Immediate relief and skills that will help you feel steadier in your day-to-day life
- Deeper healing and lasting change, so anxiety stops coming back, or is at least much less frequent and less severe
This is where my use of EMDR and CBT can be especially helpful – because they can help you access the practical tools you need to start creating change today, as well as do the deeper work necessary to make sure those changes take root so you can experience real healing and growth.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for Anxiety
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is one of the most widely researched and highly effective treatment approaches for anxiety, because it’s focused on helping you acquire practical skills and tools you can start using right away.
It’s also particularly helpful for people who aren’t used to “thinking about their thinking.”
Instead of just talking about your experiences, CBT can help us look at what’s going through your mind when anxiety shows up:
- Are you making assumptions about yourself or others?
- Are there beliefs you carry about relationships, safety, or control?
- Is something about your worldview contributing to your feelings?
- Are you automatically assigning meaning to what’s happening?
CBT can shine a light on the attitudes and assumptions you’re operating with – as well as help you understand when and why they show up.
And this awareness and understanding is a prerequisite for creating change.
Together we’ll use belief restructuring, grounding techniques, visualization, and cognitive-behavioral tools to help you:
- Recognize any thought patterns that are driving anxiety and stress
- Build coping strategies you can use right away to decrease triggers and the intensity of anxiety, rumination, overwhelm, and panic
- Experience greater choice in how you respond to events
- Replace self-defeating beliefs and behaviors with healthier, more constructive ones that help you achieve your goals
EMDR Therapy for Anxiety
While Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) was originally created to help people process and resolve trauma and PTSD, I’ve found it to be an extremely powerful complement to CBT in the treatment of anxiety.
Why?
Because anxiety is often rooted in the past and what our nervous systems have learned to expect.
EMDR is a series of therapy protocols specifically designed to help your brain and body reprocess “stuck” experiences and triggers so they lose their emotional charge over time.
EMDR doesn’t need to involve one big trauma story. It’s perfectly suited to helping you work through:
- Specific triggers
- Distressing memories
- Body sensations that spike with anxiety
- Self-beliefs that keep getting activated (“I’m not safe,” “I’m not enough,” “I can’t handle this”)
Perhaps more importantly, EMDR therapy not only helps you shed light on and resolve the underlying causes of your anxiety, it can help you “rewrite” the story you tell yourself about who you are, so you can transform painful emotions into sources of empowerment.
If you’re ready to try something different and finally break free of anxiety and stress, I invite you to reach out today, schedule a free 15-minute initial phone consultation, and discover how CBT and EMDR therapy together can help you experience immediate relief, as well as long-term stability, healing, and growth.
Am I the Best Anxiety Therapist for You?
While I’ve found CBT and EMDR therapy to be extremely powerful healing techniques for anxiety, stress, panic attacks, and phobias, the most important element in effective counseling and therapy is the healing relationship you and I create together.
After all, if you’re not comfortable enough with me to be open and honest about your thoughts, feelings, and experiences, you’ll find it next to impossible to do the deep work necessary to heal and grow.
So how do you know whether I’m the best anxiety therapist for you?
The only way to really find out is to contact me today, schedule an initial consultation, ask any questions you have, and see if we feel like a good fit for working together.
What I can tell you is that I tend to take a more structured, directed, yet collaborative approach to this work.
This means:
- We’ll clarify and work towards your goals from the outset, so therapy is purposeful and meaningful
- We’ll regularly use assessments and between-session practices to track our progress and support your healing and growth
- I’ll be honest and direct in a supportive way – I’ll ask questions, share my perspective, and invite you to always do the same
I also don’t believe in “cookie-cutter,” one-size-fits-all therapy. If something isn’t working, we’ll adjust accordingly.
My focus is on doing whatever we can to create and track tangible progress from session to session, so you feel clearer, stronger, and more at ease in your relationships and life as quickly as possible.
Perhaps most importantly, we’ll move at a pace that’s right for you.
You’re in the driver’s seat. You’re always the one in control.
If anxiety has been running – and ruining – your relationships and life …
If you’re tired of overthinking, bracing, doubting yourself, or always living on edge …
Know there is another way.
You can create the change you seek. And I’m here to help.
Reach out today, schedule a free 15-minute initial phone consultation, and discover how anxiety counseling and therapy can help you experience a greater sense of calm, confidence, and control, as you learn to create a life you truly love.