Anxiety
What Is Anxiety?
Anxiety is a common emotional response to stress, uncertainty, or perceived threats. Some anxiety can be a normal part of life, but it can become a concern when worry, fear, or physical symptoms are persistent, overwhelming, or interfere with daily life.
Anxiety can affect thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, behavior, relationships, work, school, and other areas of life. It can take many forms, and each person’s experience can be different.
How Can Therapy Help With Anxiety?
Therapy can help you understand the thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and physical responses that contribute to anxiety. Treatment focuses on developing skills and strategies that can help you respond to anxiety in healthier and more manageable ways.
Depending on your needs, therapy may help you:
- Identify patterns that contribute to anxiety
- Develop healthier ways of responding to worry and fear
- Learn strategies for managing physical symptoms of anxiety
- Reduce avoidance and other behaviors that may maintain anxiety
- Build confidence in handling uncomfortable thoughts or feelings
- Improve emotional regulation and coping skills
- Address the impact of anxiety on relationships, work, school, or daily life
Your clinician will work with you to develop a treatment plan based on your specific concerns and goals.
Who Can Benefit From Anxiety Therapy?
Therapy may be helpful for children, adolescents, and adults whose anxiety is affecting their well-being or daily functioning.
You may benefit from therapy if you:
- Worry frequently or have difficulty turning off anxious thoughts
- Avoid situations because of fear or anxiety
- Experience panic or intense physical symptoms
- Feel overwhelmed by uncertainty
- Have difficulty relaxing or feeling safe
- Notice anxiety affecting your relationships, work, school, or everyday activities
- Want to develop healthier ways of managing stress and worry
What Can We Help With?
Our clinicians can provide support for a variety of anxiety-related concerns, including:
- Generalized anxiety and excessive worry
- Panic and anxiety symptoms
- Social anxiety
- Specific fears and phobias
- Anxiety related to life changes or stressful experiences
- Anxiety related to trauma
- Obsessive or intrusive thoughts
- Avoidance and reassurance-seeking behaviors
- Anxiety affecting relationships, school, or work
Anxiety Therapy at Modern Me Psychology
At Modern Me Psychology, we recognize that anxiety does not look the same for everyone. Treatment is individualized to address your particular symptoms, experiences, and goals.
Our clinicians may use one or more therapeutic approaches to help you understand and manage anxiety. Treatment may focus on changing unhelpful thought and behavior patterns, developing emotional flexibility, processing difficult experiences, or gradually facing situations that have become associated with fear or avoidance.
Our Clinicians Who Work With Anxiety
Michael Tavolacci, Ph.D., LCPC
Danielle Giovannetti-O’Halloran, LCPC
Michael Saraceno, M.A., LPC, NCC
Related Approaches
Depending on your concerns and treatment goals, approaches that may be incorporated into anxiety treatment include:
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
- Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Biofeedback
- Somatic Therapy
- Strengths-Based Therapy
Explore our Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Trauma & Post-Traumatic Stress pages if those concerns are also part of your experience.
Ready to Get Started?
You don’t have to let anxiety control your daily life. Our Client Care Coordinator can answer your questions and help connect you with a clinician who may be a good fit for your needs.
