Managing Anxiety
What Can Anxiety
Look Like?
- Shoulda-Coulda-Woulda– you cannot stop reliving, regretting, and second-guessing the past
- Fear of What If… – you’re so worried about the future that you agonize over making decisions; you’re terrified you’ll make a mistake
- Hamster Wheel– your thoughts just keep going round and round, just like a hamster on a wheel going nowhere. You can’t seem to calm down your brain
- Danger Zone– you’re always on edge and/or never calm; you feel that danger is always around the corner
- Compulsive Rituals– you cannot feel calm unless you repeat certain rituals and/or phrases (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or OCD)
- Hijacked Body– you experience, sweating, difficulty breathing, chest pain, your heart racing, and/or muscle tension: your doctors assure you that “nothing is wrong”
- What Sleep? – you battle with insomnia or recurring nightmares
How Can New Pathways
Counseling Help?
What you’re going through is exhausting! I will tailor your sessions based on your symptoms, your goals, and your experiences to help you find calm as quickly as possible.
This Usually Involves:
- Teaching calming techniques during our first few sessions so you experience some immediate relief
- Discover the source of your anxiety
- Recognize and heal triggers from past events
- Learning new behaviors or thought processes
What Techniques Do You Use?
Usually, the deeper work involves a combination of four that have been scientifically proven to minimize – if not eliminate – many forms of anxiety:
- Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Somatic Awareness techniques
- Eye Movement, Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy