Anxiety, like any other emotion, plays a crucial role in signaling important aspects of our well-being. However, chronic, prolonged, or severe anxiety may begin to detract from our ability to live a healthy and fulfilling life. Racing thoughts, constant worry, sleepless nights, and physical symptoms like a racing heart or shortness of breath can take a toll on your health. When this happens, you may benefit from therapy to develop coping skills and strategies to manage overwhelming feelings of anxiety.
At Image & Likeness Counseling in Maitland, Florida, we provide personalized anxiety therapy to help you understand what you’re going through and take meaningful steps toward peace of mind. Through counseling for anxiety, we can learn to slow down, take a deep breath, and assess our surroundings. Are we safe? Do our loved ones need support? Or perhaps we need a moment to pause and recharge? By focusing on anxiety recovery, we can better understand its causes and take appropriate steps to address it effectively. On this page, you can learn more about what anxiety is and how therapy helps.
Is It Anxiety, or Am I Just Worried?
Many people put off visiting an anxiety therapist to improve their symptoms because they tell themselves they’re just worried, and maybe they have plenty of good reasons to feel worried or afraid or stressed. You might be experiencing:
- Persistent, uncontrollable worry
- Physical tension or restlessness
- Difficulty sleeping or concentrating
- Panic attacks or social anxiety
- Irritability or mood swings
- Avoidance of certain situations or responsibilities
Life throws a lot at us, and it’s completely natural to feel a little anxious. In fact, anxiety helps us perform better. Think about when you first learned to drive a car. You probably felt a little anxious getting behind the wheel for lessons. This anxiety helped you to be more alert and focused on the road, people, and objects around you. At times like this, it heightens our senses and keeps us safe. That’s what anxiety is designed to do. However, the same anxiety that keeps us safe and pushes us to do our best can become disordered.
Think back to learning to drive a car. You likely got used to driving and became increasingly comfortable and confident the longer you spent behind the wheel. Now, imagine you didn’t experience any relief from this heightened anxiety. Every time you get behind the wheel, you are hypervigilant, your heart is racing, and you feel overwhelmed. Maybe the feelings of anxiety actually increase rather than decrease over time. There is never any sense of relief or diminished symptoms. You are always as worried as you were the first day, or maybe you are more worried. This is a strong indication that you are experiencing disordered anxiety that may benefit from therapy.
Can Therapy Help With Anxiety?
Anxiety therapy at Image & Likeness Counseling is extremely beneficial in diminishing the adverse effects of anxiety disorders. When you work with one of our counselors, you’ll develop skills to manage the anxiety impacting your day-to-day life. As trained therapists, we can help you develop the self-awareness to recognize when anxiety is increasing and what triggers your feelings. From there, you can learn how to manage those symptoms. You’ll partner with an anxiety therapist from your very first session to set achievable goals, practice new skills outside of the office, and continually adjust your plan to make progress.
Flexible Telehealth Options Available!
Your mental wellness shouldn’t be overlooked in favor of a busy schedule. That’s why we offer secure telehealth sessions, allowing you to connect with an anxiety therapist from the comfort of your home, office, or wherever you feel safe. Our approach is tailored to you as an individual, because anxiety isn’t one-size-fits-all. Thankfully, it’s no less effective to do therapy this way compared to in-person sessions. Through telehealth anxiety therapy, you can gain deeper awareness of your thought patterns and emotional triggers. Using proven techniques, I’ll help you reduce stress, change unhelpful thinking patterns, and build resilience so you can navigate life with more ease.
What Do I Need to Do to Get Started?
The Image & Likeness Counseling team works regularly with people who are struggling with the adverse effects of anxiety on their daily lives. If you’re having a tough time managing anxiety, don’t hesitate to reach out to learn more about how therapy alleviates the impact of anxiety on your life and schedule an appointment at Image & Likeness Counseling. We look forward to being part of your therapy journey!