Anxiety Disorder Treatment

Do you ever experience:

• constant worry about the future?
• difficulty relaxing when the day is done?
• intrusive images of things going wrong?
• compulsive, repetitive behaviors?
• persistent tension, or difficulty relaxing?
• trouble enjoying the present moment?

Anxiety is a normal emotion that all of us experience. If you are reading this, however, the emotion feels overwhelming and persistent. You may experience urges to isolate and withdraw and avoid things that would enhance your life. Or, you may fall into the trap of trying to predict and control the future to the extent that living in the present becomes nearly impossible. Maybe you have  developed persistent, repetitive behaviors that are driven by anxiety….but when you engage in them, you just end up feeling worse.

Now imagine the opposite…..

 peace. Relaxation. Presence of mind. 

 If you have been suffering with overwhelming anxiety for as long as you remember, all of these may seem like far-fetched goals. You might be thinking: me??!! RELAXED??!

YES, you! You have the capacity to experience these things. However, chronic anxiety is habitual. When you are in the thick of it, it feels like you ARE anxiety. You inhabit it. You identify with it. You start doing things to reinforce it.

You need to learn how to interrupt the cycle of engaging in behaviors that make anxiety bigger. You will never get rid of anxiety, but you can learn how to accept it and redirect your focus onto other things that matter.

Let’s get rid of “analysis paralysis” together.

Letting go of patterns that make anxiety worse is the first step. Learning to live alongisde anxiety is the second. Learning to redirect your attention to valued, life-enhancinge activities is the third. Please click “find out more” to learn about the various modalities I use to treat anxiety disorders.