Anxiety Therapy in Wauwatosa & Online
Is Anxiety Interfering with Your Relationships, Your Work, or Your Overall Well-Being?
It may be affecting your sleep, eating, and thinking patterns. It may be getting in the way of performance at work or school or your relationships. Maybe it is even making you feel bad about yourself, making you question yourself and have self-doubt.
Everyone’s experience with anxiety is unique, but some common symptoms you may experience are:
Panic symptoms, such as:
Racing heartbeat
Sweating
Shaking or tingling
Difficulty breathing
Tightness in chest
Dizziness
Feeling detached from reality or your surroundings
Sudden fear of losing control or dying
Excessive worries or “what ifs”
Nervousness or feeling “on edge”
Difficulty sleeping or changes in eating patterns
Trouble concentrating
Fatigue
Irritability
Checking behaviors
Over-scheduling or over-working yourself
Physical symptoms, such as
Body pain or tension, stomachache, or headache
Anytime is a good time to begin therapy but when the feelings of anxiety become overwhelming, excessive, or interfere with your daily life, it may be a great time to consider reaching out for help.
You can experience anxiety for so many different reasons.
Anxiety is something (probably) all of us have felt at some point in our lives. It is the body’s natural response to stress and is completely normal in stressful situations. However, your brain can perceive many different situations as stressful or threatening, even when there may be no real threat or danger. These situations may result in:
Generalized worries or anxiousness*
Social anxiety*
Performance anxiety*, such as:
Before or during tests, sports games, or public speaking
Health anxiety
Finance-related anxiety
Trauma-related anxiety*
Phobias
Perfectionism*
Obsessive compulsive behaviors
Anticipation anxiety due to upcoming changes, challenges, or new experiences*
Anxiety due to life transitions*, such as:
Starting or ending college or changes in your relationships
*The bolded and starred anxieties listed above are within my specialty areas that I help clients navigate and manage.
You Are Not Alone! Anxiety is Common Among Women.
According to numerous sources, women are twice as likely as men to experience anxiety throughout their lifetimes. What causes this difference between men and women? Female biology, hormones, different coping styles, and environmental factors, such as the way women tend to be raised in our society, are a few of the factors that have been identified.
Therapy Can Help You Better Tolerate Your Anxiety To Reduce Its Impact On Your Life.
Together in therapy, we will explore your experience with anxiety to help identify how you can best manage it to relieve the difficulties it has been causing in your life.
You will learn how to acknowledge, accept, and tolerate your anxiety. We will explore possible underlying problems or triggers and identify ways to improve unhealthy thought and behavior patterns.
Through this process, anxiety will no longer control you or your life. You will discover ways to cope with your anxiety and gain back control. We will find coping skills and techniques that work for you to help meet your goals and become a calm and confident version of you.
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