Anxiety / Panic Attacks

Anxiety and panic attacks can be frustrating.
Who wants to feel like they’re going to fall apart?!

Here are some ways that my clients describe anxiety:

  • “Whenever I know I have to talk in front of a group, I feel my heart starting to race…”

  • “It came out of nowhere! Suddenly, I felt overwhelmed and like I was going to faint…”

  • “I wake up in the morning stressed and am stressed pretty much for the entire day…”

These show the various ways that anxiety can manifest.

  • Sometimes, it’s tied to a particular trigger, like socializing.

  • Sometimes, annoyingly, there is no trigger that you can discern.

  • Sometimes, anxiety is a constant.

If you do not have any way of understanding what is happening to you, when you have anxiety, then it would make sense that:

  • Anxiety is scary.

  • You do not want to do certain things, go to certain places, or talk to certain people.

Anxiety can be embarrassing, hard to predict, and control…
… Until you’ve had someone walk you through it.

There are many therapy techniques to help you understand and manage your symptoms and regain a sense of control. I will walk you through various coping skills that you can learn to regain a sense of peace and calm.

The techniques I typically teach/use include any or all of the following:

  • Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR)

  • Progressive muscle relaxation

  • Exposure therapy (for phobias)

  • Interoceptive exposure

  • DBT Emotional Regulation skills

We will discuss and decide together which one(s) make the most sense for you.

I will walk through each technique with you, every step of the way.

Contact us to learn more about how I can help you on your journey to feeling better and taking control of anxiety. It does not have to control you!