Anxiety Therapists in New York
TREAT YOUR ANXIETY, FIND PEACE
Anxiety is by far the most prevalent mental illness in our modern world. In the U.S. alone, more than 40 million American adults struggle with anxiety of some sort, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Anxiety can be accompanied by mental worry or emotional pain, and it can be overwhelming, hijacking our senses and preventing us from enjoying the present moment. Anxiety amplifies our fears and can make us more paranoid or irritable than situations warrant. Fortunately, anxiety therapy can help free you from the burdens of overthinking, worrying, and reacting to anxiety.
Our anxiety therapists are trained to help you develop coping skills, manage your anxiety symptoms, and identify and confront the root causes of your anxiety. Regain peace of mind now with anxiety therapy. If you're looking for an "anxiety therapist near me" in New York, look no further than Manhattan Mental Health Counseling. Our anxiety therapists provide talk therapy using effective evidence-based approaches like cognitive-behavioral therapy, psychodynamic therapy, EMDR, and mindfulness-based therapy.
COMMON SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS OF ANXIETY
Anxiety often feels awful. You might experience one or more of these symptoms:
Shortness of breath • Heart palpitation or chest pain • Sweating • Trembling or shaking • Ruminating or obsessing • Muscle tensions • Fatigue or weakness
BREAKING THE CYCLE OF AVOIDANCE
As humans, we naturally wish not to suffer. We typically try to escape anxious feelings as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, we rarely succeed at truly getting rid of those awful feelings. Suppressing them, denying them or distracting ourselves with other activities might work for a moment, but these are temporary fixes at best. The anxiety inevitably returns, often with even greater intensity. We refer to this dynamic as the cycle of avoidance.
You cannot fix the problem of anxiety by avoiding it; you must instead learn how to change your relationship to it. Chronic or intense anxiety can end when properly addressed with the help of a therapist. Anxiety therapy helps break the cycle of avoidance by teaching you how to face the anxiety head-on.
LEARN COPING SKILLS WITH ANXIETY THERAPY
Our experienced anxiety therapists will help you learn coping skills to manage your anxiety and develop strategies to minimize stress. You will learn to recognize your triggers and identify your internal warning signs that the anxiety cycle has started. You will learn to disengage from negative thoughts and treat them as information, rather than absolute truths, so they have less influence over your behavior. You will also learn acceptance skills that allow you to feel the physical symptoms of anxiety as they occur in your body without trying to change them or run from them. We help you prevent stress from escalating, focus on the present moment, and take decisive action.
The mind wanders by nature. It revisits the past, it explores, and plans for the future. When we can’t make sense of what’s going on, the mind represses, distracts or fixates. With anxiety therapy, you will learn to step outside these thinking patterns. You can reach beyond the regrets of the past and the worries of the future and focus on the present moment where you can take meaningful action. As you learn these skills, you’ll watch your relationship with anxiety begin to change. Those anxious feelings will become less intense and less frequent, allowing you to lead a more fulfilling, balanced and peaceful life.
GETTING TO THE ROOT CAUSES OF ANXIETY
Our anxiety therapists are skilled at going deep beneath the surface to help you confront the root causes of anxiety in your life. So much of what we do is dictated by our subconscious and our habits. A skilled anxiety therapist can help you understand why certain fears, places, or situations induce anxiety and how to overcome them. We can help you examine the situation with a renewed perspective and consciously design a life after your own heart and values.
AS PART OF ANXIETY THERAPY, YOU WILL LEARN TO:
DIFFERENT TYPES OF ANXIETY
Anxiety manifests itself in a variety of ways. The most common types are:
Chronic stress (Generalized Anxiety Disorder)
characterized by high frequency and high-intensity anxiety, exaggerated worry and tension. Generalized anxiety disorder consists of realistic but excessive worry about everyday things like work, family, health money or school. The worry is out of proportion to the stressor, causing you to feel regularly on edge.
Panic Attacks (Panic Disorder)
acute episodes of intense panic and fear. A panic attack is an intense, sudden episode of anxiety and fear that often includes heart palpitation. A panic disorder is defined by repeated panic attacks. Learn more about how to stop a panic attack when you feel it coming on.
Social Anxiety
characterized by emotional discomfort in group settings, often accompanied by the fear of being embarrassed or judged by others.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
results from experiencing a traumatic or life-threatening event. Symptoms include flashbacks or nightmares about the traumatic event, overactive startle response, hypervigilance and avoiding people or situations that might remind you of the event. Learn more about PTSD Therapy.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
characterized by uncontrollable intrusive thoughts that are alleviated by some behavior. The thoughts are the obsessions and the behaviors are the compulsions. The compulsion is meant to reduce the anxiety caused by obsessive thoughts. Learn more about OCD Therapy.
Phobias
unrealistic and exaggerated fears of specific things, places or people. Phobic individuals usually know how unrealistic their fears are but cannot help their reactions.
TOP-RATED ANXIETY THERAPY TREATMENT IN NEW YORK
If you're looking for anxiety therapy, contact us today to schedule a consultation. Our top-rated anxiety therapists in New York are available to help you find peace and overcome your anxiety. No matter how intense your feelings of stress and anxiety, Manhattan Mental Health Counseling has many anxiety therapists available to help. Our New York anxiety therapists near me (New York and New Jersey areas) can be found on this page. Anxiety therapists provide online therapy from the comfort of your home.
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