Anxiety Therapy
Anxiety therapy can help you to Anxiety is a reaction of the body and mind to situations that it perceives as dangerous, stressful, or unfamiliar. It causes a sense of uneasiness, dread, or distress. A certain degree of this feeling is normal and helps us to stay alert and activated to get things done.
Stress can cause feelings of overwhelm. Learning techniques for stress relief can help you to return to a state of inner peace and calm. Mindfulness has been shown to be effective for stress relief and reduction of symptoms of anxiety.
Contact Jen to schedule a free 15-minute consultation to see if you would work well together.
Mindfulness Coaching for Stress Relief
Mindfulness coaching teaches the principles and practices of meditation and mindfulness. You’ll learn how to incorporate mindfulness into your everyday life to increase feelings of inner peace and happiness. In addition, you will learn how to recognize when you are experiencing stress before you feel overwhelmed, and you’ll learn what to do to get back to feeling peaceful again.
Anxiety Therapy
We all experience anxiety at times. If your anxiety is severe enough that it interferes significantly with your daily life, you may benefit from anxiety therapy.
People with generalized anxiety disorders experience excessive worry, find it difficult to control the worry, and may experience persistent feelings of restlessness, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, irritability, muscle tension, or sleep disturbance. If these symptoms cause significant interfere with daily functioning in social situations, at work, or in significant relationships, you may benefit from anxiety therapy. Working with an anxiety therapist or anxiety counselor can help you to learn to manage the overwhelming feelings and reconnect with your life again.
Jen offers therapy and counseling for the following anxiety related concerns:
Generalized anxiety
Panic
Anxiety due to medical conditions
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Acute Stress Disorder
Adjustment Disorder
Anxiety Due to Medical Conditions
Anxiety can be brought on by medical conditions including but not limited to thyroid disorders, Hashimoto’s thyroid disease, heart attack, arrhythmia, cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, asthma, hypoglycemia, metabolic disturbances, vitamin B12 deficiency, MTHFR genetic mutations, cancer, inflammatory disorders,
The symptoms may be due to a medical condition if the medical condition is known to cause these symptoms and the medical condition preceded the onset of the symptoms.
You may also experience anxiety if you’ve recently been diagnosed with any medical condition as you struggle to come to terms with it. Mindfulness coaching or therapy may be beneficial to help you to learn to cope with the feelings of uncertainty, fear, or grief that often accompanies being diagnosed with a medical condition.
Mindfulness Therapy
There are a number of anxiety treatments that have been shown to be effective. Mindfulness-based therapy, including mindfulness therapy and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy. MBCT has shown excellent effectiveness for treatment of anxiety. Jen teaches mindfulness meditation for anxiety.
Mindfulness therapy teaches mindfulness and meditation practices as well as strategies for managing difficult thoughts and physical symptoms that can accompany a state of anxiousness. It also teaches you how to regulate the nervous system to a state of inner peace again. You’ll learn how to better respond to your symptoms rather than continuing to react to them.
Mindfulness therapy and anxiety therapy is about learning new ways of relating with our experience that help us to feel more peaceful and happy so that we can enjoy a greater sense of wellbeing and resilience. And there’s a real sense of freedom in that.
Reclaiming Inner Peace
You don’t have to continue to suffer. It’s possible to learn how to calm your body and focus your mind in ways that can reduce the feelings of overwhelm. It’s a matter of learning the signals that your body and mind are giving you and responding in ways that rebalance your nervous system.
If you’ve experienced a great deal of stress or trauma, you may be experiencing chronic stress in response to ongoing perceived threats to your well-being. Mindfulness can help you to bring in the wisdom of discernment to recognize times when there is no real danger and use skills to help you calm your body, focus your mind, and return to a state of inner peace.
Life involves pain and loss, but practicing mindfulness can help to decrease the emotional reactivity to the loss and pain and help you to put things into perspective so that you don’t feel so overwhelmed all of the time. It’s possible to navigate the difficult times that life brings without feeling so much suffering. I would love to teach you how.
Contact Jen to schedule a free 15-minute consultation.