How would it feel to no longer be limited by anxiety?
Anxiety Treatment
in Philadelphia, PA
Feeling exhausted wrestling with anxiety?
Keep checking emails and text messages, but also get jumpy when hearing the ringtone or vibration from the phone.
Watching videos while thinking about and planning things that you “should be doing”.
Scrolling through social media in bed while feeling that you are “running out of time”.
At night, sitting in front of the computer to catch up with work, but could not focus because of all the voices in your head.
Spend an hour to leave work or home, because you have to keep checking on things.
You write and rewrite, only to give up on emails and messages because you worry about “not saying the right thing”. You’re unable to get work done on time because you are worried about making mistakes. You wait for friends and families to make decisions or to tell you what to do because you cannot trust yourself. Friends call you an overachiever, a perfectionist, but you know these are draining you.
Your loved ones tried to comfort you, to tell you the reasons why you can calm down. You understand everything they say. You can analyze your own behaviors. And yet, you cannot shake off the fear. You may feel angry, shameful, or even hopeless because of it.
You may have to rely on your family all the time. You may have limited friends. You may always be behind at school or at work. You may get sick often due to sleep deprivation, and constant starving yourself. Or you may lose your sense of time and your body, because of over sleeping and binging.
These struggles may make you feel “crazy”
It is possible –
- to focus on work when needed
- to relax with “an empty head”
- to be comfortable with reaching out to people
- to feel confident in making decisions.
- to no longer being limited by anxiety
Together, we will address feelings, thoughts, body sensations and behaviors. We will work together to develop effective and practical coping strategies to better manage anxiety. I will show you ways to learn more about yourself, to find the roots of your struggles, and how to work through them. You will integrate what we worked on in session, with your existing skills to see long lasting changes.
Anxiety therapy will help you
- Have healthier sleep and diet habits
- Improve productivity
- Reduce internal conflicts
- Reconnect with calmness
- Identify your strengths
- Trust your own judgement
Methodologies
DBT & CBT
Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Numerous research and clinical trials have indicated their effectiveness with aiding in mood regulation.
IFS
Internal Family System, focusing on not just thoughts, but also feelings and body sensations. Helps us with looking at different internal clues, and address different internal conflicts.
You can be in control
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Frequently Asked Questions
What are some types of anxiety therapy?
Most of the interventions can be categorized into two types.
Cognitive focused. Focusing on reasoning and behaviors. It helps us to identify thinking patterns that contribute to anxiety, and to replace them with more effective ones. It also develops wellness routine, self care strategies, so that we can handle more stressors, such as the “moodiness” caused by sleep deprivation and hunger.
Somatic Focused. Focusing on emotional and physical experiences. Although lots of us wish to be logical all the time, the fact is only a little section of our brain is in charge of logic. That may explain how you struggle emotionally and behaviorally even though you can fully explain what caused your struggle with logic. Babies and kids don’t have the capacity to do math, reasoning or even talking. They still have emotions and body sensation. Physical touch, soothing sound, caretakers’ attention work way better than reasoning for them. The same applies to adults. We need to take care of the parts of our brain and nerve system that are in charge of emotions and body sensation.
What helps with anxiety attacks?
Panic attack, or commonly known as anxiety attack, tends to happen “out of nowhere”. There are many causes for it, but the most common one is that our brain misinterprets certain information, and believes that we are in great danger. You may experience shortness or breath, dizziness, racing heart, shaking, sharp pain, nausea, feeling of choking, or even partial paralyzation. The list can be quite long. It is just like how we would react to the sight of a tiger, the smell of wildfire, the taste of poison, the sensation of being bitten by a snake, etc.
We need to show our brain that we are safe, and to calm our nervous system. There are many ways to do this. I found the “grounding technique” tends to work for most people.
Step 1. Look around and name what you see.
Step 2. Listen and name what you hear.
Step 3. Sniff and name what you smell.
Step 4. Name the taste in your mouth.
Step 5. Describe body sensations, the texture of your clothes, the temperature, the breeze, and sensation of your feet on the ground, etc.
Give it a try and see how well it may work for you.