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Anxiety Therapists in New York

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Anxiety Therapists in New York

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Treat your anxiety, Find peace

Common Symptoms and Signs of Anxiety

We have compiled answers to the most commonly asked questions about our services, policies, and procedures. If you don't find the answer you're looking for, please feel free to contact our support team.

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Shortness of breath
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Heart palpitation or chest pain

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Sweating 

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Shortness of breath
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Ruminating or obsessing

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Muscle tensions

fatigue

Fatigue or weakness

Breaking the cycle of avoidance

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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

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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.

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:

identify

Identify your triggers and learn how to calm yourself and disengage from negative thoughts and behaviors

strategy

Apply strategies for minimizing stress and anxiety

accept

Accept reality as it is, feel the physical symptoms of anxiety, and recognize their impermanence

prevent

Prevent stress from escalating

focuse

Focus on the present moment and take decisive action

Different types of anxiety

Anxiety manifests itself in a variety of ways. The most common types are:

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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.

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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.
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Social Anxiety

Characterized by emotional discomfort in group settings, often accompanied by the fear of being embarrassed or judged by others.

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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.
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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.
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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.

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Featured Anxiety Therapists

Ricci Mercedes, LMHC

Ricci Mercedes, LMHC

Ricci Mercedes uses a client-centered, holistic approach grounded in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to guide individuals toward self-awareness, resilience, and meaningful growth, fostering an empowering partnership that honors each person’s unique journey.

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Atisha Bhuiyan, LMHC

Atisha Bhuiyan uses a collaborative, empathetic approach grounded in DBT and CBT to guide individuals, families, and groups through challenges like anxiety, depression, PTSD, and personality disorders, empowering them to uncover strengths and build a fulfilling future.

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Marissa Davitt, MHC-LP

Marissa uses an empathetic, action-oriented approach grounded in CBT and DBT to guide clients through anxiety, substance abuse, relationship challenges, and life transitions, fostering clarity, growth, and meaningful change.

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