Anxiety Counseling
What can you expect from anxiety therapy counseling services?
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Relief is Possible.
Anxiety is highly treatable in counseling. We use evidenced based techniques to teach you how to decrease and manage anxiety symptoms.
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Anxiety Treatment Works.
Research shows evidence-based treatments are highly effective in treating anxiety. Exposure therapy, increasing window of tolerance, and mindfulness-based stress reduction techniques prove effective in the treatment of anxiety disorders and anxiety symptoms.
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You Can Take Back Control of Your Life.
Anxiety can feel debilitating, but relief is possible. Managing anxiety gives you control back over your life.
ACT Therapy for anxiety that impacts your social life, dating, relationships, career, or daily life.
Generalized Anxiety
Generalized Anxiety is defined by excessive worry occurring most days for at least 6 months. If you’re experiencing generalized anxiety you find it difficult to control this worry. You might feel restless or on edge, fatigued, difficulty concentrating, irritable, have muscle tension, have trouble falling or staying asleep or have restless or unsatisfying sleep. Generalized anxiety impacts one’s ability to function in social, occupational, or relational dynamics.
Panic Attacks
Panic Attacks stem from an abrupt and intense fear, or intense discomfort, that reaches a peak within minutes. This can occur when someone is feeling calm or already in an anxious state. Physical sensations can include an accelerated heart rate, shaking, shortness of breath, nausea, dizziness, change in temperature to chills or heat, or feelings of numbness or tingling sensations, out of body sensations, feeling detached from oneself or reality, fear of losing control, or a fear of dying. After a panic attack someone typically experiences persistent worry about having more panic attacks or their consequences, or actively tries to avoid the panic attack or activity / situation that initially brought it on.
Social Anxiety
Social Anxiety is the emotional and/or physical distress impacting someone in various social settings. Social anxiety can show up as performance anxiety in relationships or in a workplace environment. Performance anxiety might more commonly be known as stage fright when someone feels nervous in front a real or imagined audience. The fear is usually so strong that it impacts your ability to perform or show up. Social anxiety also impacts relationships in one’s ability to feel present, satisfied, and happy because they are overthinking, ruminating, people pleasing, experiencing self-doubt, seeking external validation, worrying, and fearing abandonment. Symptoms of social anxiety can manifest emotionally and physically. One might feel nervous in romantic relationships or worry persistently. Someone experiencing anxiety in their relationships might experience unmanageable distress, a racing heart, nausea, or a constant state of stress. Anxiety in social settings can also include possible scrutiny by others, during conversation or when meeting unfamiliar people, or anxiety when being observed, which could be when eating or drinking.
Life Transitions
Life transitions include major changes in one’s life like moving away from home, starting college, becoming pregnant or having miscarriages, going through a breakup or divorce, starting a new job, or unemployment. People can experience symptoms of anxiety or even depression when experiencing a life transition. This type of anxiety from a life transition is typically known as an Adjustment Disorder. Symptoms include noticeable emotional or behavioral changes to an identifiable stressor within three months of the start of that stressor. Anxiety symptoms impacting someone during a life transition usually cause severe distress in important areas of their life including occupational, social, or other important areas of functioning. These symptoms would not be attributed to normal bereavement or stages of grief after a loss and once the stressor has stopped, the symptoms terminate as well for more than an additional six months.
Compassion is our first approach.
Self-compassion is a much better motivator than shame. It’s easier to take action towards your goals when the therapist encouraging you feels safe, the environment is friendly, and you’re not feeling judged.
Florida Anxiety Counseling Services FAQ
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We offer individual therapy services for clients ages 18 and older.
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No. Our online, telehealth counseling, services are only offered to clients anywhere in the state of Florida. This is due to the legal requirements of the state our therapists are licensed in.
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Our counseling services in Florida are offered online via a confidential HIPAA compliant platform. You don’t need to download any software. All you need is access to wifi or an internet connection using a phone, computer, or tablet. Your therapist will provide you the link after scheduling.
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Counseling sessions are 50 minutes in duration.
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We provide counseling services to all cities in the State of Florida. (i.e. Boca Raton, Orlando, West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Hollywood, Deerfield Beach, Pompano Beach, Jupiter, Naples, Tampa, Gainesville, Tallahassee, etc.)
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