Anxiety

It is normal and expected to experience occasional anxiety at some point in your life. Symptoms of anxiety can come and go for many reasons. Anxiety may appear when you’re faced with stress at work, before you go on a date, or when making a significant life decision. When it comes to anxiety disorders, jitters, and temporary fear is more intense. Anxiety disorder symptoms often disrupt daily activities such as work performance, school work, and relationships.

Psychotherapy provides the tools to overcome anxiety and instructs you how to use them. Counseling can help you uncover the underlying beliefs of your worries and fears, teach you how to relax, look at situations in new, less frightening ways, and promote better coping and problem-solving skills. 

In my practice, I utilize cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). CBT is one of the most popular treatments for anxiety disorders. Research has attested it to treating panic disorder, phobias, social anxiety disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder, among many other conditions.

CBT addresses negative thinking patterns and distortions. Specifically, CBT challenges us to identify and change the way we think about the world and ourselves. The fundamental assumption of CBT is that our thoughts, not external events, influence how we feel.