Therapy for Anxiety
Understanding Anxiety
Do you often feel consumed by excessive worries or find yourself avoiding challenges, even when you know it’s holding you back? Do past experiences leave you doubting your ability to handle life’s obstacles? Has your inner dialogue become overly critical or fearful despite your efforts to stay positive? Are your worries manifesting as tension, trouble sleeping, or a persistent sense of unease?
If this sounds familiar, you may be experiencing anxiety—one of the most common yet highly treatable mental health challenges. Anxiety often involves excessive fear of the future, negative self-talk, and difficulty relaxing. It can create a cycle of avoidance, making daily life feel overwhelming and reinforcing the very worries you’re trying to escape. Fortunately, with the right support, breaking free from this cycle is possible.
Therapy can help you regain confidence and control by equipping you with skills to reduce the intensity and duration of your symptoms. You deserve a life that feels manageable, fulfilling, and worth looking forward to. At MadeMind, we’re here to help you make that a reality.
Potential Causes of Anxiety
Negative Beliefs
Excessive negative self-talk, whether based on real or imagined fears about your future challenges, can create and intensify anxiety symptoms.
Physiology
Constant nervous system overstimulation can amplify the physical symptoms of anxiety, making the experience even more overwhelming.
Acquired Coping
Your family or community of origin may have modeled avoidant or ineffective coping patterns, greatly shaping your current response to stress.
Past Experiences
Past personal or vicarious experiences may have instilled a fear that you won’t be able to handle similar situations in the present or future.
Common Signs & Symptoms of Anxiety
Excessive or unrealistic worry about the future
Feeling on edge, like something bad is about to happen
Constant, intrusive negative thoughts that are difficult to control
Irritability or short-tempered mood
Difficulty sleeping
Muscle tension
Difficulty concentrating
Fatigue
Gastrointestinal (GI) issues
How We Help You
Anxiety is a normal but treatable experience. In therapy, we’ll identify your symptoms, how they affect your daily life, and strategies to help you regain control.
Education is key. Anxiety manifests both mentally and physically, and we help clients distinguish between the two while teaching effective responses. We also encourage mindfulness to enhance self-awareness and resilience. Anxiety is something you experience—it doesn’t have to define you.
Our goal is to equip you with the skills to manage and reduce anxiety, so you can navigate life with confidence, free from the fears that once held you back, experiencing life to the fullest.