Anxiety THERAPY
Symptoms + Treatment
Many adults, including those in demanding professional careers, experience anxiety. While the symptoms, intensity, frequency and triggers may differ, anxiety of all sorts is very treatable. How might you know that you are experiencing anxiety?
Here are common signs and symptoms of being anxious:
- Excessive Worrying: Persistent and overwhelming worry about everyday events or situations, often feeling disproportionate to the situation or perceived threat.
- Physical Symptoms: Anxiety can manifest physically and be uncomfortable, including muscle tension, headaches, stomachaches, trembling and restlessness.
- Sleep Disturbances: You may have difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or experience restless sleep.
- Irritability: You may become easily agitated, irritable, or have a low tolerance for unexpected situations or stressors.
- Fatigue: Chronic fatigue and a lack of energy are common signs, as anxiety can be mentally and physically draining.
- Difficulty Concentrating: Trouble focusing, racing thoughts, and an inability to concentrate on tasks are common cognitive symptoms.
- Avoidance Behavior: You may be avoiding certain situations or activities, including social situations, that trigger anxiety, and this could further be impacting your daily functioning.
- Changes in Appetite: Anxiety can affect eating habits, leading to either increased or decreased appetite and potential weight changes.
- Panic Attacks: You might have experienced sudden or intense episodes of fear or discomfort, accompanied by physical symptoms like chest pain, shortness of breath, and dizziness.
Many of these symptoms can overlap with burnout and depression a well as other challenges. It’s important to discuss your unique mental health experience with one of our therapists.
How we treat anxiety - The good news is that anxiety is the most treatable mental health concern. A crucial first step in recovering from anxiety for adults is seeking professional help. Our team is trained to support individuals in understanding the root causes of their anxiety, teaching coping strategies, and providing a warm and confidential space for expressing thoughts and emotions. Therapy sets the stage for a structured and informed approach to managing and overcoming anxiety and empowers individuals to take control of their mental well-being.
Here's how we specifically help:
- Individualized Treatment Plans: Our therapy clinic recognizes that anxiety manifests differently for each individual. We tailor treatment plans to address your unique needs, incorporating various evidenced based therapeutic approaches including CBT if it is a good fit for you, to provide a personalized experience.
- Experienced Therapists: Our team consists of licensed and experienced therapists specializing in anxiety disorders for adults in high stress careers.
- Psychoeducation: Understanding anxiety is a crucial aspect of managing it. We provide psychoeducation to help you gain insight into the nature of anxiety, its triggers, how it intersects with your specific career as well as coping strategies. This knowledge is empowering and contributes to long-term success.
- Progress Monitoring: We regularly assess your progress and adjust treatment plans as needed. This ensures that therapy remains effective and aligns with your evolving needs.
- Crisis Intervention and Coping Strategies: It is important to develop coping strategies for handling acute episodes of anxiety. Our therapists equip you with tools to manage crisis situations effectively, empowering you to navigate challenges more resiliently.
- Express Boundaries: We help you learn how to communicate realistic limits and boundaries to manage stressors effectively. It's okay to decline non-essential commitments and prioritize mental health. Our clients finding boundary setting to be very difficult especially in work related contexts. We understand that and are here to support you with expressing boundaries gently and comfortably.
- Quick Stress Reduction Techniques: We help you develop a toolbox of rapid stress reduction techniques that can be employed in short intervals during a busy day. We teach our clients quick techniques that don't take a lot of time and energy but provide immediate relief from anxiety.
- Medication Management: If medication is part of your treatment plan, we are here to discuss your concerns, reservations or past experiences with medication.
Remember that you are not alone, and we are available to help you diminish your experience of anxiety and improve your quality of life. We are a small team of therapists who understand the world of high achievement and demanding careers. Have any questions? Please be in touch so we can answer your questions.
We're here to help
Our team specializes in providing counselling/therapy to career professionals & lawyers in Ontario & BC struggling with anxiety, stress, burnout, low mood/depression, perfectionism, imposter syndrome, ADHD, grief & loss, relationship & career challenges.