Anxiety Therapy in NYC
Overcome your anxiety and find peace with anxiety treatment today.
You’re tired of living with overwhelming or persistent worry, fear, and unease. Anxiety therapy in nyc can help.
Anxiety is part of the human experience. Worry, fear, or physical unease are natural for all of us in stressful or threatening situations. Sometimes some worry or nervousness before a high-stakes exam or important meeting can even help motivate us to prepare and perform our best. However, anxiety can be debilitating and all-consuming when our worry, fear, or discomfort feels constant or overwhelming. If you are feeling stuck, paralyzed, or depleted from anxiety in your life, you are not alone, and anxiety counseling can help.
What is Anxiety?
We experience anxiety as intense worry or fear that can manifest in our thoughts, feelings, or physical sensations. Anxiety can be harmful when you experience persistent discomfort on a regular basis or in your daily life, rather than primarily in high-stress situations once in a while. Anxiety can creep into our minds, hearts, and bodies and impact our ability to perform at school or work, to build and maintain successful relationships, and to make decisions and navigate life stressors or transitions. Anxiety can feel like a heavy weight on our shoulders that prevents us from engaging in the present, impedes our ability to work toward our goals, or makes us feel disconnected from ourselves and those around us.
You may feel like your worries or fears are constantly replaying in your mind, you may ruminate about the past or the future, or pick apart scenarios and analyze your thoughts or actions over and over. You may feel like your thoughts are racing a mile a minute or like you’re out of control. Others may feel a ‘pit’ in their stomach or physical tension and tightness in their bodies, and still others may worry extensively about perfection or intensely fear making a mistake. You may find yourself avoiding anxiety-provoking scenarios or situations that feel risky to help manage stress. Anxiety can also present as panic symptoms where you might experience difficulty breathing or focusing, pressure in the chest, tearfulness, etc.
When we suffer from anxiety we may struggle to trust ourselves, constantly second-guess our decisions, feelings, or instincts, or fear nothing we do is good enough.
What are the common symptoms of anxiety?
Physical or bodily symptoms of Anxiety:
Increased or rapid heartbeat or shallow, irregular breathing
Muscular tension, tightness, or pressure
Stomach discomfort or gastrointestinal issues
Sweating, shakiness, heat face or body
Physical restlessness
Cognitive/thought-related
symptoms of Anxiety:
Frequent and intense worries that can feel constant or uncontrollable
difficulty relaxing due to nervousness
Sleep disruption especially due to racing thoughts or difficulty ‘turning off’ your thoughts
Difficulty concentrating or frequent distractibility
Emotional symptoms of anxiety:
Feeling fearful, worried about the past, present, or future
Irritability, anger
Feeling a sense of urgency, dread, or impending doom
Feeling overwhelmed or unable to cope with typical stressors
Take back ownership of your life with anxiety treatment in NYC
If you constantly feel worried, nervous, ‘on-edge’, physically uncomfortable or tense, anxiety treatment can help you develop tools to cope with discomfort as well as uncover the roots of your worry and fear to make way for true healing and peace. Anxiety therapy in NYC can help you relate to your anxiety in a different way, change or broaden your perspective, and find empowering ways to remain grounded in your daily life and when managing stress. Through treatment you will build confidence and strengthen your sense of self-worth. You will feel more secure in your decisions and your interactions which will allow you to be more present in your life, and less likely to spiral into worry or constantly second-guess yourself. Anxiety counseling will help you develop tools and insights that allow you to live a fuller, more engaged life that is aligned with your goals and values.
How does anxiety therapy in nyc work?
At Align Therapy Services, you can expect for your anxiety treatment to be tailored to your unique needs and goals. I integrate evidence-based interventions including cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), emotionally-focused individual therapy (EFIT), and acceptance-and-commitment therapy (ACT) with compassion, warmth, and acceptance to best support both symptom reduction and treating the root causes of your struggles.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy is based upon the connection between your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. CBT provides tools for you to explore and better understand your underlying thoughts, feelings, and behavioral patterns, identify patterns that are negative, rigid, or distorted, and find ways to shift and reframe your mindset to generate increased flexibility and balance.
Through emotionally-focused interventions, the therapeutic relationship will establish a safe, non-judgmental space for you to better connect with your emotions and make sense of experiences and coping patterns that define how you relate to yourself, others, and the world around you. Connecting to your emotional needs and experiences will allow you to identify and address the roots of your pain and suffering and build a new sense of balance, worth, and connection to the self and others.
Acceptance-and-commitment therapy can help you change your relationship to your anxiety by providing alternative strategies to challenging and reframing unhelpful feelings and thought patterns. When integrating ACT into treatment, you learn how to acknowledge and accept the presence of anxious thoughts or feelings and break cycles of avoidance or fear in spite of your anxiety. ACT strategies help us to distance ourselves from anxious thoughts and feelings and change the way we react and respond to them rather than focusing on reducing or eliminating the thoughts and feelings themselves. ACT strategies incorporate mindfulness-based exercises that help you to increase present engagement and move toward your goals and values, especially if you feel you have reached a plateau using traditional CBT strategies.
get started with therapy for anxiety in NYC
You are so much more than your anxiety. Together, we can help you find peace and a more confident, empowered you. Start your journey by scheduling a free 30-minute consultation to learn more.
Other SERVICES
In addition to therapy for anxiety, As a New York City therapist, I offer mental health services for teens and adults including therapy for depression, and PTSD therapy, as well as therapy for those who want to improve their relationships and disordered eating treatment, among other speciality areas. I specialize in therapy for women who want to find fulfillment, build self-worth, and become the best version of themselves. I provide online therapy to residents of New York, Connecticut, and Washington D.C.