ANXIETY AND STRESS MANAGEMENT COUNSELING

 Anxiety is a normal emotion. It is your brain’s way of reacting to stress and alerting you of potential danger ahead. Everyone feels anxious now and then. For example, you may worry when faced with a problem at work, before taking a test, or before making an important decision. Mild anxiety is okay but, anxiety disorders are different. They’re a group of symptoms that cause constant and overwhelming anxiety and fear.  The excessive anxiety can make you avoid work, school, and other social situations that might trigger or worsen your symptoms.  

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a common type of psychotherapy that teaches you how to turn negative, or panic-causing, thoughts and behaviors into positive ones. You’ll learn ways to carefully approach and manage fearful or worrisome situations without anxiety.   

This type of counseling is holistic and targets:

• Psychoeducation in Neuropsychology
• Understanding nature vs nurture: how experiences and genetic predispositions influence your underlying beliefs and behaviors
• diet
• life stressors 
• ways to create feelings of safety and security 
• and more..

Counselors specializing in anxiety and stress management can provide very targeted interventions using multiple therapeutic modalities including: 

• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy to identify negative thinking patterns related to stress reactions. We work with you to recognize and change maladaptive thought patterns, identify triggers, create and implement new, helpful behaviors, improve your emotions, and develop specific tools for dealing with problems. 
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy  to learn to stop struggling against stress, change your response to it, and live in a way that reduces it. This modality changes how people respond to stress and increases feelings of well-being. 
• Positive Psychology  is useful for stress because it focuses on skill-building and changing perspectives to increase what works instead of focusing on what is wrong. 
• Mindfulness work