Therapy for Anxiety & Stress

Everyone has anxiety and stress - a healthy amount doesn’t really affect your day to day life and can even help motivate you. However when it starts to get worse and unbearable, it can prevent you from getting things done. How is your anxiety impacting your life currently?

There are many reasons why people have anxiety including but not limited to:

• Relationships
• Work
• Parenting
• Agism/Retirement/Empty nest syndrome
• Dating and getting older
• Children not doing well socially or in school 
• News/politics
• Feeling unsafe
• Xenophobia
• Racism/Oppression
• Agoraphobia
• Life transitions/adjustments

Have you been trying to work it out on your own, but it’s not quite working for you? Is your stress and anxiety too overwhelming? If you let it go on for too long, it can affect your physical health, mental health, relationships, and career.

If you aren’t sure what you are experiencing, these are some other ways to describe anxiety and stress:

• Insecurity
• Loneliness
• Feeling fragile/vulnerable
• Self-doubting/indecisiveness
• Negative self-talk
• Imposter syndrome
• Walking on eggshells
• Feeling exposed and/or invisible at the same time
• Fear of confrontation/avoiding conflict

Physical symptoms of stress and anxiety can include but not limited to:

• Sweating
• Increased heart rate
• Tightness in chest
• Shortness of breath
• Feeling hot all of a sudden
• Shaking/fidgeting
• Obsessive/uncontrollable thoughts
• Difficulty sleeping

If you believe that you are suffering from feelings of anxiety or stress, these surveys can help you better assess the severity of what you are experiencing and how it’s manifesting in your daily life. Please be aware that these tools are not necessarily intended for self-diagnosis, a substitute for treatment, or a determining factor whether you should enter into therapy or not. These can be used as supplemental tools to discuss with your health care provider when seeking support and assistance. You don’t have to suffer from anxiety or stress any longer and let it control your life.

Has Covid-19 Made You Anxious?

The Covid-19 pandemic taught us a lot of lessons about our mental health and the importance of prioritizing our emotional wellness. During quarantine, we were given time to reflect and look inwards. Now as we re-engage with society and try to get back to “normal” life, taking care of every aspect of ourselves - physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health - is more important than ever.

Some of the reasons why you might be feeling anxious:

• Having reservations or concerns about taking the vaccine

• Scared of catching Covid

• People around you aren’t vaccinated

• Switching to working from home

• Working from home and having to take care of children

• Having to go back to the office/work in-person

• Adjusting to new procedures and guidelines

• Travel restrictions

• Getting back to “normal”/pre-pandemic lifestyle

• Social anxiety

• Returning to a busy schedule

• Not having enough “me time”

As society opens back up, you don’t have to be pressured into returning to exactly how life was before the pandemic. If you got accustomed to a quieter, less hectic schedule, you can allow yourself to continue with that behavior. If you still want to wear a mask, but no one around you is, you’re allowed to continue wearing your mask for your own comfort level, safety, and peace of mind. Do you feel like you have to squeeze everyone in to make up for lost time? Guilt is a heavy load to carry. Don’t let others pressure you into doing anything you are not comfortable doing. Therapy can help you reduce your anxiety about reentering society by empowering you to be honest with yourself and others, helping you find that balance and equilibrium.

I Can Help You Feel Calm and Comfortable