Anxiety Therapy in Brownsburg, IN
Are You Feeling Discouraged Or Unmotivated In Life?
Are You Feeling Overwhelmed By Stress, Worry, Or Anxiety?
Do you find yourself regularly consumed by anxious, fearful thinking?
Are you unable to engage with and enjoy the present moment because of everything on your mind?
Have you been experiencing any of the following negative emotional patterns:
Constant overthinking, worry, or ruminating?
Uncontrollable emotional outbursts or panic attacks?
Social detachment or withdrawal from family or friends?
Perhaps you’re functioning well enough, but you’re racing through your day from task to task with a constant background feeling of worry or dread. Or maybe you’re so overwhelmed that your anxiety is causing you to shut down or detach entirely, impacting all the other aspects of your life in the process.
Anxiety Can Take Over Your Life And Harm Your Closest Relationships
You may feel so overwhelmed with everything you’re feeling that you don’t have energy for anything else. Physically, you might be experiencing heart palpitations, sleep disruption, digestive issues, or panic attacks.
Emotionally, you may feel a constant sense of unease, like something is wrong that you can’t quite pinpoint. And within relationships, anxiety can lead to seeking constant reassurance, overanalyzing the interaction, or jealousy and insecurity.
Anxiety can negatively impact your closest personal relationships when you need them most, but therapy can help pull you out of isolation and back into engagement with yourself and the world. Therapy can help you get a hold on your anxiety and reclaim your peace by actively working through your issues while learning to let go of what’s outside of your control.
Questions about anxiety therapy? Reach out to us today.
Almost All Of Us Feel Anxious Or Scared Sometimes
Anxiety is incredibly common, and sometimes it can be a valid response to danger, something that actively protects us from harm. It’s when anxiety takes over our lives and becomes a maladaptive response that it can become a serious problem.
More and more research shows that today’s culture is increasingly susceptible to anxiety. For instance, according to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), “an estimated 31.1 [percent] of U.S. adults experience any anxiety disorder at some time in their lives,” and yet many receive no treatment for their symptoms.
Most People Don’t Have A Safe Space To Work Through Their Anxiety
So many suffer through anxiety in isolation and silence. Barriers to communication in our relationships, both past and present, may be telling us internally that we are not safe, seen, or understood. And although in some ways we are more connected than ever via smartphones and the internet, this can also lead to chronic feelings of disconnection as we engage with our screens while pushing away human connection.
Counseling can offer you that very space to feel heard, supported, and understood. We can get to the heart of what’s causing your anxiety by working first to alleviate your current symptoms while also exploring the underlying issues causing them in the first place.
Therapy Can Help You Get Your Anxiety Under Control
When you’re overwhelmed by anxiety, you can spend so much time in survival mode that you have little energy left to actually enjoy your life. When your nervous system is in fight, flight, or freeze mode, it can be difficult to be present and engaged with the world, but anxiety therapy can help you move to a place of greater security and peace.
We believe that treatment for anxiety starts with your therapist getting a full history that will help them understand your values and goals, life choices, relationship patterns, and your responses to anxiety. Everyone experiences anxiety differently, but we’ve tailored our approach around what we’ve found to be the most effective modalities in treating these symptoms.
A Grounding Approach To Anxiety Counseling
Because anxiety manifests in the form of highly interconnected physical, mental, and emotional symptoms, we incorporate both cognitive and somatic forms of treatment. Modalities like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) can help you reframe many of the negative thoughts and beliefs that are reinforcing your anxiety and keeping you stuck.
We believe that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is at the heart of anxiety treatment because it reaches and restructures the root causes of anxiety. By exploring the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, we can actually start to understand how our thoughts may be irrational, unproductive, and actively destructive.
Ultimately, the goal of anxiety therapy is building the tools for self-regulation. Anxiety occurs when we fear what could happen beyond the present moment. But by grounding ourselves, challenging our own thoughts, and recognizing what we cannot control, we establish an ability to stay present in the moment and in our own lives.
We want to assure you that anxiety does not have to run your life anymore. By challenging your own patterns, staying grounded in the present moment, and regulating your core self, you can find freedom from the constant “what ifs” of life. Counseling can help you understand and accept what is and isn’t inside your own control so you can direct your energy entirely toward building your best self and your best life.
You May Still Have Some Questions About Anxiety Counseling…
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This is also understandable, but the reality is that unlearning old patterns does take time. In fact, one perspective on anxiety sees it as a learned behavior that might have become ingrained over months, years, or decades. However, the progress you will see and feel will be incremental, and you will notice positive changes from the beginning of this ongoing process.
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This is a legitimate concern, and, truthfully, there are some cases in which talking about the issue does make things feel worse before getting better. In terms of anxiety, we will be actively working through areas of your life that are causing the anxiety. But in the long term, counseling will work to actively manage and alleviate the symptoms of your anxiety.
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At Rediscover Counseling, we view mental health treatment on the same level as medical treatment you would receive from a doctor, and the brain chemistry component of anxiety can sometimes call for a chemical response. Everyone is different, but we have found that utilizing an integrated approach helps the chemical and psychosocial aspects of severe anxiety.
You Can Move Past Your Anxiety And Live Peacefully
If you are feeling overwhelmed by the symptoms of anxiety, therapy with Rediscover Counseling can help you regain your peace and reclaim your life.
Please call 317-203-9578 or use our contact page to get started.
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