Make peace with your body and your thoughts.
Therapy for anxiety in Colorado Springs
You live day to day with a feeling of unease, as if something bad might happen. You struggle with spiraling thoughts. You feel like you are at battle with your own body.
Your heart races. Your breathing is fast and shallow. Your body tenses. Overwhelm sets in. The fear is intense. You can’t concentrate. It hardly feels bearable. Worry takes over. You grasp for control wherever you can. You are restless, irritable and can’t relax. You are not present and feel disconnected. You might even feel like you are floating outside of your body. Your thoughts are irrational, intrusive. You may tremble. Your hands tingle. Your arms feel numb. This is anxiety.
Anxiety is a physiological process designed to ready our bodies to fight or flee. This is a functional response when there is an actual threat that requires action. However, our nervous systems often become over-responsive. This can happen for a number of reasons which requires deeper exploration. When you understand this process you can learn to stop fighting your body, start to shift the process, and rest in internal calm and safety.
You can learn to understand your nervous system and work with your body.
How therapy works
You are ready for relief and to heal underlying causes.
We will first make sure you have the tools needed to care for your unique nervous system. Your nervous system has been shaped by your biology, early life experiences, and the impactful events you have encountered throughout your life and has its own barometer of reactivity. Learning to care for our nervous systems is a skill that needs to be developed.
We will then move beyond symptoms and begin to explore what’s underneath your anxiety—how your past experiences, relationships, and internal expectations have shaped your emotional responses, relational patterns, thought process, and behaviors.
You will learn to use this insight to begin to shift your symptoms. Ultimately we will work together to resolve underlying causes. This often involves deeper, longer-term, trauma work. When underlying causes are resolved, your experience within your body changes and symptoms of chronic, dysfunctional anxiety dissolve. Anxiety then becomes a time limited, situation dependent, functional response.
Therapy for anxiety can help you…
Address the underlying causes driving your symptoms
Be less consumed by overthinking and more grounded in the present
Shift long-standing patterns of worry, pressure, and self-criticism
Respond to stress with greater clarity and flexibility
Feel more at ease within yourself and in your relationships
Frequently asked questions about anxiety therapy
FAQs
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If anxiety is impacting how you feel, think, or relate it’s worth exploring. We can often appear to be functioning and attending to life’s demands but are internally overwhelmed. Learn more.
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We will make sure you have tools and strategies to regulate your nervous system. Then we will focus on understanding and shifting what’s driving the anxiety so change is lasting and meaningful. Learn more.
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No. Many people benefit from therapy alone. However, in some cases, medication can be a helpful addition. If that is something you’re curious about, we can talk through your options and connect you with a medical provider. Learn more.