Anxiety

Does it feel like worry, fear, or panic is controlling your life?

• Are you struggling with a racing heart or shortness of breath when there's no physical danger?

• Do you often feel overwhelmed and on edge, even when things are going well?

• Are you struggling with a pervasive sense of dread or impending doom?

• Do you find it difficult to calm your body down once you start feeling anxious?

• Are you struggling with an uncontrollable stream of 'what-if' thoughts that keep you up at night?

• Do you constantly overthink conversations or analyze past events?

• Are you struggling with excessive perfectionism or procrastination due to fear of failure?

How anxiety disrupts your daily life

Anxiety doesn't just feel like worry; it has real, tangible impacts on your daily routine. You may find yourself consistently asking, "Why can't I stop overthinking everything?" or experiencing sudden, panic attacks, which often include terrifying physical symptoms like chest tightness, shortness of breath, or a pounding heart. In other areas of life, anxiety symptoms can show up as constant restlessness, persistent insomnia (difficulty sleeping), and a general sense of being "on edge" (Generalized Anxiety Disorder). For many, the struggle involves intense social anxiety, causing avoidance of public situations, or daily feelings of burnout from the pressure of maintaining a facade. If these manifestations are starting to interfere with your job, relationships, or overall well-being, searching for effective anxiety treatment is the crucial next step toward finding relief.

You might have tried to get rid of anxiety on your own. Often, people try to calm themselves down, or to distract themselves with something else. Sometimes this can lead to addictions such as substance use, internet and phone addictions or sports and exercise addictions. As long as you keep moving or focusing on something other than your anxiety, you feel like you have it all under control. But the truth is, that unless addressed with a professional, anxiety doesn’t usually just go away on its own.

Why does it feel hard to get rid of anxiety?

Anxiety doesn't just feel like worry; it has real, tangible impacts on your daily routine. You may find yourself consistently asking, "Why can't I stop overthinking everything?" or experiencing sudden, panic attacks, which often include terrifying physical symptoms like chest tightness, shortness of breath, or a pounding heart. In other areas of life, anxiety symptoms can show up as constant restlessness, persistent insomnia (difficulty sleeping), and a general sense of being "on edge" (Generalized Anxiety Disorder). For many, the struggle involves intense social anxiety, causing avoidance of public situations, or daily feelings of burnout from the pressure of maintaining a facade. If these manifestations are starting to interfere with your job, relationships, or overall well-being, searching for effective anxiety treatment is the crucial next step toward finding relief.

On a deeper level, anxiety was created by your brain to keep you safe. Our psyche has mechanisms that might be difficult to understand on surface level, but in psychotherapy, with a trained mental health professional, you will uncover your own defenses and self-sabotaging behaviors and you will bring to your conscious mind the reason for your anxiety symptoms. With this deeper understanding, your psyche will become less enmeshed with your anxiety and you will slowly learn to let anxiety go. And when anxiety shows up again, as it always might, you will understand why it is there, you will no longer be afraid of it, and you will not be controlled by it.

How therapy provides long-term anxiety relief

At Evolve Counseling Group we address the root causes of anxiety, not just the symptoms. Specialized approaches, particularly Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Psychodynamic Therapy, equip you with practical coping strategies for anxiety and help you challenge and restructure the unhelpful thought patterns that fuel your stress. Beyond CBT, you may also find support through mindfulness techniques and our personalized counseling service approach identifies can help you understand how at some point in your life anxiety may have a served a purpose, but it no longer has to. You can live a life that is more calm and balanced and you can experience from joy and wellbeing.

The process that unfolds in a therapy session is nothing short of magical, because through dialogue, the anxiety can dissipate because once something is spoken, it is no longer as powerful and intense. Your therapist can provide you with insight into how and why and when anxiety shows up for you, and can help you reframe your relationship to anxiety. Anxiety is not always something to run away from or to distract yourself from. Anxiety can serve a purpose and during the times when it is not useful, some simple cognitive behavioral techniques can put you in the driver seat of your own life again. 

Let one of counselors guide you towards your healing. We offer a structured and supportive environment to help you rewire your neural networks and find more calm and ease in your daily life.

What can I expect from sessions?

In sessions we will work with you on identifying how anxiety shows up in your life. Each individual can have a certain blueprint of symptoms of anxiety they experience frequently. We will then try to identify triggers that “flare up” your anxiety. These can be certain situations, physical places or people you interact with, or what can be noticed is that anxiety symptoms show up when you feel burnt out, stressed and overwhelmed. Identifying what is causing your anxiety is an important first step in creating awareness and with awareness, there is the option to change. This does not always mean that you have to avoid situations or people, and it does not mean that if your stress level doesn’t go down, then you will be stuck with anxiety forever. 

There are many ways in which anxiety can be lessened without life circumstances changing. Because we understand that sometimes it is impossible to change your life circumstances quickly. But regardless of what you are facing in your daily life, your internal world can be calm and grounded. And at Evolve Counseling Group, one of our missions is to help you achieve better health and improved life satisfaction.

When should I expect to feel better?

Even though it feels like anxiety can never be managed, the truth is that anxiety is a very treatable and manageable condition. With the right tools and the right guidance, you can be yourself again.

Let one of our counselors guide you through the process. 

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