Therapy for Anxiety:
If you’re struggling with anxiety, you’re not alone: Anxiety is becoming more and more common in the society we live in, infiltrating many aspects of daily life. You may have recently noticed it’s feeling increasingly difficult to find and maintain a sense of ease and inner peace. If you’re seeking anxiety therapy in NYC, you’re probably highly aware that our busy and chaotic city can exacerbate symptoms of anxiety.
Not only will our therapists help you get to the root of your anxiety as it manifests for you, but they will collaborate alongside you to come up with appropriate strategies and coping skills to best manage your anxiety. Here are a few ways we tackle symptoms of anxiety:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): CBT is evidence-based and assists you with identifying and changing patterns that contribute to anxiety. Our therapists will help teach you practical tools to address the irrational or negative thought-patterns that often underlie your anxiety, such as black-and-white and all-or-nothing thinking. Our therapists work to help you more deeply understand where your irrational beliefs are coming from and challenge their roots, develop coping strategies to move through them when they emerge, and give you real-life suggestions on how to push through symptoms of anxiety in your day to day life, building tolerance and resilience.
Mindfulness-Based Therapies: Allowing yourself to simply notice without assessment, rumination, or dwelling is an excellent step to begin combatting your anxiety. Our therapists pull from techniques from mindfulness-based therapies, such as Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). Our clinicians also offer breathwork exercises to manage the physical sensations of anxiety, such as panic attacks, and help you learn to proactively regulate the nervous system.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT): The pillars of DBT help with emotional regulation and distress tolerance, two aspects of anxiety that are essential to work on. DBT therapy also teaches principles of radical acceptance, which may be an essential part of moving with your anxiety rather than against it. Our staff therapists are highly trained in DBT therapy for anxiety, and offer this modality in both individual therapy sessions and group therapy.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): ACT encourages individuals to accept their anxious thoughts and feelings as part of their experience, rather than trying to suppress or control them. It emphasizes clarifying values and committing to actions aligned with those values, even in the presence of anxiety.
Identifying Underlying Causes: Our therapists are psychodynamically oriented, meaning that they’re skilled in helping you look at the origins of your anxiety, patterns that may have emerged from early childhood or family dynamics, or other lifelong factors that may be underlying causes for your anxiety symptoms. We will move at your own pace in exploring your history with anxiety and integrate how it’s showing up in your present reality.
Holistic Therapy for Anxiety: Discussing lifestyle and self-care practices are always a part of our therapy style at Intuitive Healing. This helps us take a holistic therapy style when addressing your anxiety, and is especially important when discussing persistent anxiety. If you’re struggling with symptoms of burnout or sensory overwhelm, we’re here to help as these factors may also be contributing to your anxiety.
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