Anxiety and stress symptoms can overtake your life making work, relationships, and socializing difficult and almost unbearable. You may have dealt with anxiety symptoms for years or you may have anxiety due to the abounding stressors in the world. Whatever the cause of your anxiety, we will work with you to achieve your goals and a personalized plan to reduce symptoms.
Anxiety symptoms can include:
- Rapid heartbeat
- Panic attacks
- Excessive worry
- Feelings of danger and doom
- Numbness
- Shortness of breath
- Excessive sweating
- Chest pain
- Avoiding social obligations and activities that induce panic
If any of these anxiety symptoms sound familiar, therapy is a good place to start. But how exactly does therapy work? Therapy can help you learn new coping skills to start managing stress, thoughts, and worry. Together, you and your therapist will create goals to work on reducing frequency of anxiety episodes. Your therapist will help you learn how to regulate your body, signs to watch out for during distress, and how to manage emotions and negative thoughts that often accompany anxiety.
Anxiety Therapy can also get to the root of anxiety and panic. Sometimes, anxiety stems from trauma, substances, and depression can aggravate anxiety, as well. Your therapist will do a thorough evaluation to make sure that there are no other presenting concerns causing anxiety symptoms.
Our therapists use CBT, DBT, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, and other modalities to alleviate symptoms. Therapy is a productive and evidenced based method of treating anxiety disorders. If you are interested in coping with current symptoms and learning how to prevent future anxiety attacks, therapy is a great place to start. Your therapist will take time to make you feel comfortable and help you navigate the journey towards anxiety relief. We understand that it can feel strange to meet with a stranger and tell them about your life, but we do our best to make you feel comfortable and in charge of your sessions.
S & J Wellness has a referral network of physicians if anxiety medication is warranted or an option that you want to look into. We provide therapy in our Warrenville office and provide tele-heath in Illinois for anxiety disorders. Contact us today to learn more.