Anxiety Therapist NYC
Do you find yourself feeling worried, stressed, and fearful a lot? Feel nervous for no reason? or find yourself often Google search “how to overcome fear?” You may be suffering from anxiety. You can benefit from anxiety therapy in NYC. Anxiety expert Dr. June and the therapists on her team specialize in psychotherapy for anxiety, specifically, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Panic, and Phobias. Indeed, life will be so much easier when your brain stops spinning a million miles an hour. Of course you deserve better quality of life.
What is Anxiety
Some amount of fears and anxiety can be part of our natural survival instinct. It helps us to be aware of our surroundings, gets us ready to “fight or flight” in case of danger, and keeps us safe. However, when it occurs too often, it gets to be too much for us to manage and process. As a result, anxiety can begin to interfere with many aspects of our lives, from work performance to relationships.
Anxiety is a mental, emotional, and physical condition. It features worry, nervousness, or fear that is ongoing, excessive, and has negative effects on a person’s ability to function. In fact, anxiety can have behavioral and emotional consequences. You may try to avoid people, social gatherings, flight, or leaving home to make yourself feel “safe”. With racing thoughts or rumination, you may feel consumed by negative and catastrophic thoughts. Still, some of you may feel compelled to wash hands or check stove so many times that you feel exhausted and even hate yourself. Let alone those sleepless nights when insomnia is your friend and your brain just cannot relax.
What causes anxiety?
Scientific research shows that anxiety disorders can be caused by chemical imbalances in the brain. Furthermore, you may notice that many people in your family also have anxiety. Research shows that anxiety has genetic links too.
What are the Signs and Symptoms of Anxiety
If you answer YES to one or more of the following questions, you might have anxiety.
- Feel very anxious or worry about a lot of things
- Think your worry is excessive
- Worry more days than not
- Have been worrying like this for the past 6 months
- It is hard for you to control your worrying
- Having physical symptoms such as restlessness, feeling tired easily, irritability, muscle tension, trouble concentrating, or trouble sleeping
- Your worries negatively impact your ability to function, such as at school, work, with friends/family, or in other areas of your life.
physical symptoms such as restlessness, feeling tired easily, irritability, muscle tension, trouble concentrating, or trouble sleeping
Your worries negatively impact your ability to function, including your education, work, relationships with friends/family, or other areas of your life.
What are Different Types of Anxiety?
There are different types of anxiety. For example, Generalized Anxiety Disorder primarily manifests excessive, uncontrollable worry over events and activities and potential negative outcome. Another typical anxiety is obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Repeated and persistent thoughts (“obsessions”) that typically cause distress and that an individual attempts to alleviate by repeatedly performing specific actions (“compulsions”). Examples of common obsessions include: fear that failing to do things in a particular way will result in harm to self or others.
Social Anxiety or Social Phobia, means excessive fear of becoming embarrassed or humiliated in social situations, which often leads to significant avoidance behaviors. Panic Disorder, on the other hand, refers to the experience of sudden panic symptoms (generally out of the blue, without specific triggers) in combination with persistent, lingering worry that panic symptoms will return and fear of those panic symptoms. PTSD (posttraumatic stress disorder) is a mental health problem that some people develop after experiencing or witnessing a life-threatening event, like combat, a natural disaster, a car accident, or sexual assault.
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How Could an Anxiety Expert Help?
Receiving counseling for anxiety is extremely important. Psychotherapy is an effective option for anxiety. Moreover, an anxiety expert not only treats anxiety symptoms but also helps identify the roots of specific worries. It teaches you skills to relax and calm down when anxiety attacks hit. Overall, anxiety therapy gives you the tools to overcome anxiety and teaches you how to use them.
Psychotherapy for anxiety helps people to look at situations in new, less frightening ways. By doing so, these people will develop better coping and problem-solving skills. Likewise, psychotherapy gives you the tools and tips to overcome anxiety. These tips will help you live less worry-filled days.
An anxiety therapist can:
- Help you to learn how to stop worrying and be happy
- Teach you how to stop worrying about health, germs, and contamination
- Show you how to overcome anxiety and fear/stress. This will allow you to stop letting your anxiety hold you back in life
- Show you how to stop anxiety thoughts/attacks when they invade your mind
What tools can an anxiety expert teach me to reduce anxiety symptoms?
A psychotherapist for anxiety uses effective methods to treat anxiety. Dr. June and her anxiety therapists will teach you the specific tools and skills for you to recognize and cope with your challenges. For instance, you may learn and practice breathing techniques to slow down your anxious mind. When you feel calm and can think straight, you may learn to examine your anxious thoughts and reframe them rationally. Our anxiety therapists will help you to improve confidence about your ability to respond to anxiety symptoms, and eventually find your inner peace.
To make sure we meet your unique needs, an anxiety expert is tailored to you based on your specific diagnosis, anxiety symptoms, your background, and personality. Such anxiety treatment will help you access better management for your symptoms. Our talk therapy also includes teletherapy for those looking for an anxiety therapist online.
Therapy Approaches for Anxiety
Overall, our anxiety therapists use various anxiety counseling techniques to assist you to reduce anxiety levels and manage fearful thoughts. Specifically, our approach consists of:
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for anxiety
- Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) for anxiety
- Dialectic Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for anxiety (ACT)
- Exposure and Response Prevention for OCD (ERP)
- Group Therapy for Anxiety
- Online Therapy for Anxiety
- Talk Therapy for Anxiety
Dr. June founded Mind Connections, a practice that can pair you with an amazing therapist for anxiety in NYC. Our therapists provide expert anxiety treatment for people in New York in different languages such as
- Mandarin Chinese
- Cantonese
- Korean
- Japanese
- English
You do not have to struggle with anxiety alone any more. Reach out to Dr. June and the team for high-quality anxiety therapy. Contact us for 15-minute free consultation and get the top services you need. You deserve the best anxiety treatment TODAY!
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