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Online therapy for anxiety throughout North Carolina
Does it feel like anxiety, fear, and avoidance are dominating your life?
Anxiety is the body’s response to a real or perceived threat. It’s an alert system that signals us to fight, freeze, or flee.
At times, this alert system may overreact, and the anxiety may become unproductive, potentially even debilitating. Anxiety is different for everyone, but some of the symptoms include a racing heartbeat, rapid breathing, panic attacks, chronic tension, sweating or hot flashes, or worrisome and ruminating thoughts. Some of the signs that anxiety has become unproductive include:
Relationship difficulties due to increased irritability
Sleep difficulty, fatigue, and tiredness due to ruminating thoughts
Work concerns due to difficulty concentrating and focusing
You’re ready to conquer your fears and take your life back.
How therapy works
You can learn to manage, cope, and find peace.
Therapy work involves a thorough assessment and an understanding of symptoms and concerns. Therapists will want to know the impact of these symptoms on overall functioning. Other important factors considered are developmental history, levels of social support, strengths, values, and hobbies and interests.
An individualized treatment plan will guide the work of therapy, which often involves skills for increasing self-awareness, identifying and challenging unproductive thoughts, expanding one’s perspective, and taking action in the service of what’s personally meaningful. Other aspects of therapy work might include learning and implementing coping skills (relaxation, mindfulness, communication, emotion regulation).
Ultimately, therapy works best when the client and the therapist are a good fit. It can take several attempts to find the therapist that feels right. I offer a free 15-minute consultation to answer questions and to see if we’d be a good match.
Therapy for anxiety can help you…
Learn the connection between thoughs, feelings, and behaviors
Identify and manage unproductive, negative thoughts
Regulate intense emotions
Develop healthy coping and communication skills
Gain confidence and take action toward goals
Frequently asked questions about anxiety therapy
FAQs
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Anxiety therapy works by targeting faulty thinking patterns and exploring more realistic and empowering thinking patterns. There is also a focus on emotion regulation, relaxation skills, effective communication, and boundaries. Learn more.
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Some signs of disruptive anxiety include difficult-to-control worries, a racing heartbeat, chronic tension or headaches, hot flashes and sweating, sleep disturbances, and irritability. If these symptoms are impacting your ability to live the life you’d like, you might be struggling with anxiety. Learn more.
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Schedule a free consultation! I’d be happy to chat and answer any questions. Learn more.