Anxiety Treatment
Stress and worry are weighing heavily on you. Although you used to be able to manage your anxiety, it’s starting to get the best of you. It’s impacting your life in negative ways. In fact, sometimes it’s hard to think about anything other than the things you’re worrying about.
You might need anxiety treatment in Dallas, TX
Perhaps, your anxiety keeps you up at night, so you’re exhausted when you wake up in the morning. Maybe, you can worry so much that you’re getting frequent headaches and stomach aches. And sometimes, when you’re really worried, you may even feel disconnected from your body and your life.
Anxiety is the most common mental health disorder in the United States. In fact, anxiety affects 40 million adults.
Common symptoms of anxiety include:
Excessive and relentless worry
Racing thoughts
Unwanted or uncomfortable thoughts
Hypervigilance or being on guard against danger
Anger and irritability
Restlessness
Poor concentration
Sleep disturbances and fatigue
Changes in appetitive
Racing heart and/or tightness in chest
Trouble breathing
Physical symptoms including headaches, stomachaches, nausea, hives, aches and pains, jaw pain, sweating, trembling, etc.
Types of Anxiety Disorders and Related Mental Health Concerns
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Generalized Anxiety Disorder is the most common form of anxiety. It is characterized by overwhelming fear and relentless worry concerning everyday things that may not have the same impact on others. Sometimes there’s no identifiable contribution to the anxiety and for some, there may be some general understanding but a desire to have a clearer picture as to the cause and how to help it.
Panic Disorder
Panic Disorder is a type of anxiety disorder that includes unexpected and frequent bouts of intense fear that trigger uncomfortable physical symptoms including tight chest, rapid and shallow breathing, sweating, trembling, nausea, lightheadedness, and more.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Individuals with OCD often experience recurrent unwanted or uncomfortable thoughts (obsessions) followed by repetitive behaviors (compulsions). The compulsions are an attempt to reduce the distress or prevent the pain of these thoughts. Compulsory behavior may include, but is not limited to, washing, checking, counting, and more.
Social Anxiety Disorder
Social anxiety is characterized by extreme anxiety in or about social situations. It is often caused by self-consciousness and fear of rejection.
Specific Phobias
Specific phobias cause an avoidance of a person, place, or thing due to a fear that others would consider to be irrational or out of the norm.
Dissociative Disorders
Individuals dissociate when confronted with extreme stress or past trauma memories to remove themselves from painful thoughts and emotions. During dissociation, individuals may experience gaps in their memory, out-of-body experiences, feeling like the world around them is foggy, and more.
Anxiety Can be Devastatingly Difficult
Anxiety can impact all areas of your life and the lives of those around you. Perhaps, you were able to push it away in the past, but it keeps coming back stronger and stronger. Now, you’re exhausted from trying to keep up with your day-to-day life and manage your anxiety at the same time. You may sense your anxiety increase when something feels out of control or overpowering. As a result, you may be trying to regain some sense of control by suppressing or dismissing your anxiety. Perhaps you find that this solution hasn’t offered lasting change or possibly caused symptoms to worsen.
Counseling can help. As experienced anxiety therapists, we understand that you may worry about discussing your anxiety. Perhaps you worry that speaking about your anxiety will actually give it more power and cause your symptoms and painful feelings to worsen. But, we can assure you that it’s not the case. In fact, the opposite happens. When you allow yourself to listen to the voice of anxiety, you can actually allow it to become your ally. This means you can draw insight from your worried thoughts without experiencing a sense of being overpowered and overwhelmed.
Our Approach To Anxiety Treatment in Dallas, TX
The therapists at White Rock Therapy offer a variety of anxiety treatments to help you begin to move forward with confidence. Our goal is to help you recognize the automatic and unnoticed thoughts that are triggering and causing your anxiety.
In ego state work we seek to develop a different relationship with the parts of self that are experiencing anxiety. Through getting to know them better you can begin to understand how your other parts typically respond to these anxious thoughts, sometimes in ways that might be increasing the symptoms or negative outcomes. What you can expect to gain is compassion and appreciation for some of the positive aspects of your parts and begin a working relationship.
EMDR Therapy For Anxiety
We also specialize and have advanced training in using EMDR also known as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing to treat anxiety. Perhaps, you’re wondering What is EMDR? EMDR uses bilateral stimulation (activating both the right and left hemispheres of the brain) to resolve a stressful memory and the negative self-belief associated with it. EMDR is well-researched and very successful in treating anxiety, trauma, and more.
The therapists at White Rock Therapy in Dallas, TX hope that you will find healing and relief from the pressures that contribute to your anxiety and burdens. Anxiety treatment can help you find a deeper sense of self-acceptance that provides encouragement and hope for what the future holds while also increasing your ability to engage in the present in a transformational way.
Begin Anxiety Treatment in Dallas, TX
If you’re ready to experience relief from the burden of anxiety, then counseling can help. The therapists at White Rock Therapy would be honored to work with you to build additional coping techniques and develop new ways to view and manage distress. Follow these steps to begin counseling in Dallas, TX, or online therapy in Texas:
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Other Services Offered at White Rock Therapy
Anxiety treatment isn’t the only service we offer from our Dallas, TX-based therapy center. Other services offered include EMDR therapy, therapy for dissociation, Christian counseling, online therapy, support for families of addicts, group therapy, grief counseling, intensives, and therapy for athletes. In addition, we also offer clinical supervision and clinical consults for therapists. Therapy for Anxiety is available in Dallas, TX, Frisco, TX, virtually anywhere in Texas and virtually anywhere in New Jersey. For any additional questions, feel free to visit our FAQ!