Stress or Anxiety?

 

Many people believe that their anxiety is normal - everyone “get’s nervous or anxious” afterall, right? Fortunately, it’s not quite that simple. Stress is a normal part of life that we cannot avoid and will experience for the rest of our lives, though our body and mind learns how to regulate normal stress. Normal stress may have similar symptoms to anxiety, but anxiety is persistent and we most likely won’t be able to regulate or alleviate it on our own. Eventually, we learn certain skills and certain ways of thinking that can help us to regulate our emotions and bring us back into our window of tolerance. 

 

Finding Happiness and Fulfillment through Anxiety Treatment

 

Keeping up with your work, household tasks, and relationships may feel like the greatest stress right now. You may feel that adding in another item to your list is the last thing you need. But what could be more beneficial than taking space to explore what you are experiencing? A space where you can learn skills to manage your anxious thoughts and physiological responses. Through counseling, we can learn to cope and manage your anxiety together.

 

What to Anticipate in Anxiety Treatment

 

We will start with your expectations of therapy. What are your goals and hopes for our time together? We will identify the problem together, what the root cause is that is contributing to the anxiety that you are experiencing, and through counseling, we will identify what goals are needed in order to help alleviate symptoms of anxiety. As Therapists, we can help you learn skills to cope with anxiety and panic in the moment, as well as skills to cope ahead before anxiety happens. 

 

Is Anxiety Treatment Worth It?

 

For over the past five years, Grace Therapy & Wellness has helped hundreds of individuals in the Austin community through therapy and skills training in order to cope with and alleviate their anxiety. We have witnessed or experienced first hand the healing benefits of anxiety therapy and how transformative it can be for your life and activities to have a safe space and gentle guidance from a counselor to walk you through healing from anxiety. 

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How Exactly Do You Treat Anxiety?

 

All of our Therapists hold a Masters in Social Work and a license in Social Work. We have all been trained in evidence based approaches to anxiety treatment that have been proven most effective in alleviating symptoms of your anxiety. Many of our Therapists have received advanced trainings in treatment modalities, such as, DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy), EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), and More. 

 

We believe that you are the expert in your experience, as well as the expert in your own healing. Our Therapists operate from a relational and person-centered approach. We will partner with you to understand what forms of treatment will best fit your healing.