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Therapy for anxiety for adults in NYS
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Anxiety
Are you anxious about going to work every day?
Are you nervous to confront your loved ones with different issues?
Do you have a tendency to overthink everything?
Are you slowed down by not accomplishing your tasks on time?
Is anxiety taking over your personal and professional life?
Have you been trying to control it and feel like you can’t?
Have you already tried medication and/or therapy before but it is not working or working only short term?
Are you anxious about being anxious?
If this sounds like you, I am confident that I can help. I use a multidisciplinary approach to treatment. Some therapies analyze the roots of the problem but don’t give you any solutions. Insight is important but not enough to change our behaviors. Other therapies give you the tools without analyzing where the problem is coming from. It is like applying a bandaid on a wound. It may help for the short term only. I am an eclectic therapist. I use a customized approach by researching your family history, analyzing your worries and fears, getting to the roots of your problem, and then training you to use appropriate coping mechanisms and problem-solving tools to fix it.
Anxiety symptoms may include:
Excessive worry
Difficulty controlling your worries
Restlessness or feeling on edge
Being easily fatigued
Difficulty concentrating
Muscle tension
Sleeping disturbance
We will collaborate to work on:
Exploring the roots of anxious feelings
Identifying and challenging unhelpful thinking
Increasing emotional regulation and distress tolerance
Reducing stress
Increasing confidence in your decision-making
Improving communications and boundaries
Therapy for anxiety can help you:
Learn problem-solving tools
Learn to better manage your stress and prioritize self-care
Release stress and tension from the body
Feel more connected to your body
Calm mental and emotional overload
Improve your professional and personal relationships
“For anxiety disorders, cognitive-behavioral therapy, antidepressant medications, and anti-anxiety medications have all been shown to be helpful. Research generally shows that psychotherapy is more effective than medications and that adding medications does not significantly improve outcomes from psychotherapy alone.”
— AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
FAQs
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There is no right or wrong time to start therapy. People usually reach out when there is a problem or they feel stuck and can’t move on. However, anyone can learn helpful coping mechanisms to deal with anxiety at any time.
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There are several ways to deal with anxiety-provoking thoughts. One is to use Grounding Techniques to distract yourself. Another one is to confront your worries by using Cognitive Behavioral Restructuring Techniques.
The Grounding Techniques can include the 5-4-3-2-1 technique or engaging all of your 5 senses by answering the following questions:
What are 5 things you can see?
What are 4 things you can feel?
What are 3 things you can hear?
What are 2 things you can smell?
What is 1 thing you can taste?
Go slowly through the process of really describing the things you can see in detail, paying attention to what you can smell and hear. Be in the moment. By shifting your attention to the here and now, and your anxiety will go down.
The second option is to analyze the Negative Automatic Thoughts that you have. Catastrophizing and Emotional Reasoning are symptoms of anxiety. You can lower your anxiety by learning how to restructure your negative irrational thoughts or cognitive distortions. It takes time to learn the techniques which is why being in therapy can be helpful.
There are other coping tools and techniques that you can learn in therapy to deal with your worries.
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It would be helpful to analyze the family of origin dynamics in therapy. In many cases, people have both genetic predispositions to anxiety and also learn from their parents if the world is perceived as a safe or a dangerous place. By observing their parents and how they react to different situations, children learn how to respond to them.
In severe anxiety cases using medication together with therapy can be the best way to lower anxiety.
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Therapy is a personal journey. Some people stay in therapy for years, others for a short term.
However, if you would like to see some results, give yourself an opportunity to explore your past, and learn new tools to move on, I would recommend at least 12 sessions.