Anxiety Therapy

Does Anxiety Make Life Seem Like An Emotional Rollercoaster?

Do you feel like you can’t shut off your thoughts? Are you too stressed out to slow down in life? Do you constantly overthink things and second-guess every decision you make?

When you’re living with anxiety, it’s easy to feel like you’re stuck on and emotional rollercoaster. Your mind is always racing ahead and bracing for the worst-case scenario. As a result, you may obsessively avoid anything that could stress you out—even the things that would benefit you. Just the idea of getting help and talking to someone could make you anxious.

Anxiety And Isolation Often Go Hand In Hand

The more anxious you are, the more likely you are to use avoidance tactics to try and manage your anxiety. This is especially common with social anxiety. You might stay away from gatherings with lots of people and turn down opportunities to make new friends. But in the end, avoidance and isolation only make your anxiety worse, creating a vicious cycle of loneliness and stress.

Additionally, you might try to manage your anxiety through reassurance checking, constantly asking other people things like “Did I do well on my presentation?” or did I “Did I look nervous when I talked to my crush?” But the more you seek reassurance, the more anxious you feel.

If you want to improve your confidence and make decisions without overthinking, we encourage you to pursue counseling with us. Here at Park Slope Therapy, our goal is to help you decrease your anxiety and put yourself back in the driver’s seat of your life.

Modern Day Hustle Culture Only Makes Anxiety Worse

Everyone gets anxious from time to time. Anxiety isn’t always a bad thing—at its core, it’s a survival mechanism meant to protect us from danger and keep us alert. For many people today, however, anxiety controls their decision-making and holds them back from going after their hopes and dreams.

In many ways, our fast-paced, success-crazed society has turned anxiety into an epidemic. Millions of us are overworked, underpaid, and worried that the world is going to collapse on us. In New York City where we practice, hustle culture dominates every aspect of our lives. We’re supposed to be grinding and getting shit done 24/7. Relaxation is seen as unproductive.

Social media only makes matters worse. All over our timelines, we see selfie-happy couples taking exotic vacations and living their best lives. By comparison, most of us worry that we’re missing out.

Therapy is a chance to take a break from all these external pressures and just be yourself. We want you to make room for self-care and learn new and effective ways to cope with anxiety.

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Therapy Can Help You Overcome Anxiety And Take Back Control Of Your Life

Let’s be honest: if you’re coming to counseling, chances are you’ve tried many a million different ways to reduce your anxiety. But in the end, you’ve probably found that none of them provide anything more than momentary relief. This is normal. There are all kinds of life hacks and mental health pro tips out there for regulating anxiety, but in the end, they cannot get to the bottom of your struggles or offer deeper healing.

This is why therapy is so powerful. It’s a chance to go deeper than any life hacks ever could and explore the roots of your anxiety. Doing so makes it possible to heal anxiety at its source and develop healthier, more adaptive ways of managing your stress.

What To Expect In Counseling Sessions

Working together, we’ll explore the impact anxiety has had on you and look at any past experiences that taught you to feel anxious and unsafe. From there, we’ll help you come up with a plan for regulating anxiety by looking at what’s working and not working in your life. For instance, maybe you’ve learned to cope with anxiety through avoidance behaviors, reassurance checking, or using drugs and alcohol. Therapy can help you develop coping skills that are effective and don’t reinforce anxious behavior.

When you know what isn’t working and you can identify your anxiety in real time, it becomes a thousand times easier to manage. You can basically become your own therapist and navigate anxiety on your own outside of sessions.

Creating Your Anxiety Treatment Plan

We draw from a lot of different approaches in therapy, since everyone’s anxiety is different. If you want treatment for panic attacks, social anxiety, or generalized anxiety, we can use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). The goal of CBT is to help you identify your anxiety triggers and overcome the negative thought patterns that are making your symptoms worse.

Anxiety may be in the driver’s seat of your life right now, but it doesn’t have to stay that way. At Park Slope Therapy, we are confident that we can help you put anxiety in the backseat and regain control of your life.

You May Have Some Concerns About Anxiety Therapy…

I feel like I should be able to handle anxiety by myself.

Trying to manage anxiety alone puts a lot of pressure on your shoulders, and that pressure just makes anxiety worse. What’s more, when you’re left to your own devices, it’s easy to resort to unhealthy coping strategies (avoidance, substance use, etc.). Therapy is a chance to take some of the pressure off your shoulders and talk to someone who can help you see the bigger picture. A counselor can point out behaviors that you may not have realized were making your anxiety worse. They can help you think about what you’re doing so you’re not just acting on autopilot.

I have anxiety in only one specific area. Can therapy still help?

Absolutely! In fact, many people experience anxiety in just one or two areas of their life. You might have anxiety around work, dating, school, or a specific relationship. In that case, your therapist would structure anxiety treatment around that one area so that therapy is targeted and specific.

How do I select the therapist that’s best for me and my anxiety?

We’ll work with you to match you with the therapist that best fits your needs. The therapeutic fit is essential to successful therapy, so we take the selection process very seriously. And if you don’t feel like you and your therapist are connecting, you are always welcome to try working with someone else!

You Don’t Have To Live On An Emotional Rollercoaster Anymore

Anxiety makes it feel like your brain is moving at a thousand miles per hour. We want to help you slow down and learn to be present in the moment. To connect with one of our anxiety therapists, you can email us, use the contact form, or call 929-297-9753 for a free, 20-minute phone consultation.

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