Anxiety Treatment
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Is Anxiety Negatively Impacting Your Quality Of Life?
Do you tend to catastrophize and continually expect the worst to happen?
Are you struggling with panic attacks, racing thoughts, and constant worry?
Has your anxiety reached a point where it’s starting to affect your functioning?
Maybe you start worrying the moment you wake up in the morning. Then at night, you struggle to fall asleep or stay asleep because your mind is constantly racing with intrusive thoughts and “what if?” scenarios. Perhaps you’ve tried everything you can to control your anxiety, but it doesn’t seem to respond to reason, meditation, or breathing exercises. As a result, you might be thinking it’s time to see a mental health professional.
Your Anxiety Could Be Holding You Back From The Life You Want
Maybe your anxiety is related to a specific phobia, such as a fear of heights or a fear of leaving the house. Or perhaps you’re struggling with social anxiety, and everyday interactions and social outings are immense sources of stress for you. You may suffer from debilitating panic attacks and experience intense bodily distress because of how anxious you are.
Regardless of what type of anxiety disorder you’re suffering from, you may feel unable to move forward, make plans, and accomplish your goals. In this way, anxiety can make your world feel small and limited, leading to increased isolation and loneliness.
The more time you spend alone, however, the more anxiety tends to spiral out of control. That’s why it’s so important to seek treatment. As a therapist and board-certified psychiatrist, I am able to provide both therapeutic care and medication management for patients who are looking to regulate their anxiety symptoms more effectively.
Anxiety Is One Of The Most Common Mental Health Disorders In The World
Anxiety disorders are incredibly prevalent in today’s world. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, nearly 20 percent of the US population suffers from one.* There are many different types of anxiety disorders, but some of the most common include:
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Social Anxiety
Panic Disorder
Separation Anxiety
Phobias (Agoraphobia, Arachnophobia, etc.)
Although anxiety requires professional support, it’s important to remember that it’s not just a mental health disorder—it’s also a basic facet of human life. After all, anxiety serves a protective function; a little anxiety can even be helpful, giving you the motivation and energy to complete important tasks and perform well in work or school. But when anxiety is severe, persistent, and negatively affects your quality of life, that’s a sign of a deeper problem warranting psychiatric treatment.
Anxiety Is Often A Symptom Of A Deeper Underlying Problem
There are many causes of anxiety, and they aren’t always easy to detect without the help of a trained professional. In some cases, people are genetically predisposed to anxiety because it runs in the family. In other cases, there are underlying mental health challenges like ADHD, OCD, or trauma.
Oftentimes, people are more likely to struggle with anxiety if their home life is turbulent or they work in a toxic or stressful environment. Living with someone who’s narcissistic or addicted to substance can also increase your chances of developing anxiety.
On your own, it isn’t always easy to figure out which factors are responsible for anxiety and which aren’t. As a mental health therapist and psychiatrist with decades of experience treating anxiety, I am confident that I can help you get to the bottom of your symptoms and begin the journey toward healing and relief.
Comprehensive Anxiety Treatment Can Help You Relieve Your Stress And Improve Your Confidence
Living with anxiety is grueling, painful, and limiting, but the good news is that it’s highly treatable. By drawing from a mix of medication management and insight-oriented therapy, I am able to help people find relief from social anxiety, panic disorders, phobias, and any other form of anxiety that’s holding them back in life.
You and I will begin the recovery process on day one, performing a thorough evaluation of all the underlying factors contributing to your anxiety. Once the sources of your pain have been identified, we will devise a treatment plan for lowering your stress and managing your anxiety in day-to-day life. This plan can include anti-anxiety medications, mindfulness activities, exposure therapy techniques, and various lifestyle changes.
In the beginning, we will meet roughly twice a week so that we have adequate time to address the roots of your anxiety and manage your anti-anxiety medications. As treatment continues, it’s possible to meet on a weekly, biweekly, or monthly basis depending on your progress.
Tailoring My Approach To Anxiety Treatment
Treatment is always individualized depending on the severity of your symptoms, the underlying causes, and the specific type of anxiety disorder you’re struggling with. Below are some of the main areas we’ll focus on during our time together:
Diagnoses and medical testing—The first step is figuring out what form of anxiety disorder you have, where it came from, and why it persists. I’ll perform an in-depth assessment of your symptoms and conduct medical testing to rule out different causes, and I’ll also look for any co-occurring conditions (depression, ADHD, etc.).
Mindfulness activities—You will learn a wide range of practical strategies for reducing your stress and achieving relaxation in everyday life. These can include deep breathing, meditation, and visualization exercises.
Exposure therapy techniques—I will help you learn to confront your fears and phobias in a safe and gradual manner. This way, you’ll be able to deal with the sources of your anxiety without feeling the same intensity you felt during the original offending situation.
Medication management—Although medication is always optional, it can work wonders in stabilizing your mood and lowering your stress. Some of the medications recommended for anxiety include beta-blockers, anxiolytics, and even antidepressants.
By addressing the mental, emotional, social, and physiological aspects of anxiety, I believe that we can develop a treatment plan that works for you. Many of my patients not only find relief through treatment, but also open themselves to new ways of living and interacting with others. I want you to experience the same thing.
You May Have Some Questions About Anxiety Treatment…
I have been anxious my whole life. Can life really get better?
Absolutely! Medication and therapy offer the best hope for change, enabling patients to achieve comprehensive healing and relief. It bears repeating that anxiety is highly treatable, even in severe cases, and with the right lifestyle changes and coping skills, it’s possible to unlearn the behaviors that have been fueling your lifelong struggle with anxiety.
How long will anxiety treatment take?
Everyone’s timetable is different, and it’s important to be kind to yourself as you work toward healing. In general, meeting twice weekly and using medication can provide results almost immediately, but for a full recovery, 9 to 18 months is more standard.
I’ve already tried therapy and it didn’t help. How will this be different?
I believe and trust that I can help you because many patients with similar concerns have benefited from a thorough, in-depth assessment to identify all the issues at hand. We’ll do a thorough evaluation of your medical history, family history, trauma history, and relationship history. Additionally, the use of medication can be a game-changer, giving you the strength and stability to do the healing work of anxiety counseling.
Anxiety Does Not Have To Control Your Life
With the right help and support, you can release your stress, boost your confidence, and start living up to your full potential. To learn more about how anxiety treatment can help, you can fill out the contact form or call me at 646-593-2134.
Serving patients in Portland, Oregon, and New York, New York through both in-person and virtual sessions.
*https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/any-anxiety-disorder
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