Counseling for Stress and Anxiety
Are stress and anxiety taking over your life? Does it feel like you can’t control anxiety no matter how hard you try? Have you already tried therapy but found it ineffective?
You might be finding yourself in the midst of an overwhelming life crisis such as divorce, serious illness, loss, or unemployment. Or there may not even be something major happening but you find yourself feeling as if there were. If this sounds like you, I’m confident I can help. Talking about the challenges you're facing and how you're feeling can bring you the relief you're looking for.
When it comes to treating stress and anxiety, research shows that therapy can be a highly effective option. That’s because therapy--as opposed to just taking medication--treats more than just symptoms to the problem.
Often, these are the symptoms of anxiety:
- Inability to stop thinking about the problems at-hand
- Nervousness, restlessness or being tense
- Feelings of danger, panic or dread
- Rapid breathing or hyperventilation
- Increased or heavy sweating
- Trembling or muscle twitching
- Weakness or lethargy
- Difficulty focusing or thinking clearly about anything other than the thing you’re worried about
- Insomnia
- Obsessions about certain ideas, a sign of obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Anxiety surrounding a particular life event or experience that has occurred in the past, a sign of post-traumatic stress disorder
Therapy can help you uncover the underlying causes of your worries and fears, learn how to relax, look at situations in a new, less frightening way, and develop better coping mechanisms and problem-solving skills. If you believe you may be suffering from anxiety or are just plain stressed and overwhelmed, reach out to schedule an appointment now!