Anxiety

Living with anxiety can be an exhausting experience. Day to day activities become riddled with anxious thoughts, sensations and feelings. Sleep, relationships, work, and school may suffer. At times, anxiety feels like it’s stealing the joy from life.

Some common experiences of anxiety include:

• Feeling restless, irritable, or on edge

• Sweating or trembling

• Feeling weak or tired

• Sleep disturbance (difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep)

• Trouble concentrating

• Having difficulty controlling worry

• Experiencing an urge to avoid things that cause anxiety

• Chest pain, hyperventilation, increased heart rate

Imagine living a life without constantly overthinking and feeling on edge. Engaging in psychotherapy can help uncover, explore and cope with what triggers and feeds your anxiety. With guidance and support, we can help you learn to accept and manage your anxiety, experience more productivity in work and life, while deepening relationships with friends and family.

Life Transitions & Stress

We all go through periods of adjustment, significant changes, and times of transition. While these times can be exciting, they can also be fraught with anxiety, fear, a loss of sense of self, and ambivalence.

Some examples of life transitions include:

• Career change

• Beginning or ending a significant relationship

• Becoming a caregiver

• Moving

• A general feeling of uncertainty with regards to life’s next steps

Regardless of whether or not these changes are planned, they can be stressful. Psychotherapy can support you in processing your feelings, make sense of your experience during a time that feels uncertain and support you in feeling more secure in your choices and yourself.

Attachment Disruption

Attachment theory is the concept that our attachment style with our primary caregivers directly affects our relationships throughout our entire lives.

Through early interactions, we develop “working models” for how relationships are and how to act within them.

These working models shape the way we see relationships, creating certain assumptions and blindspots that can begin to cause problems if left unchecked. Sometimes, our relationships can undergo a “rupture.” This could look like:

• Betrayal

• Broken trust

• Emotional or physical unavailability

• Divorce

• Loss of a family member

• Abuse/neglect

Since many people who come to therapy have had attachment ruptures throughout their childhood, therapy becomes a safe place to repair some of the ruptured relationships (if desired), make sense of and grieve some of the ruptures as well as experience a new way of connecting and being in relationship with someone.

This safety and connection allows for a deep healing to happen, which increases confidence, sense of identity, social skills, emotional regulation and empathy.