Therapy for
Anxiety
The Impact of Anxiety & Complex Trauma (C-PTSD)
If left unattended to, anxiety can overshadow every aspect of a person’s life. This can leave you feeling stuck, paralyzed, and isolated. The persistent worry, perfectionism, avoidance, and procrastination that often comes with anxiety can adversely effect one’s relationships, social life, career, academic success, and more. Psychotherapy can help you loosen the grip of anxiety making inner states of calmness and peace more readily available to you.
Why am I feeling anxious?
The World Health Organization reported a massive 25% increase in anxiety and depression in the first year of the pandemic. Further, a recent study released by the the Kaiser Family Foundation showed that a third of adults, including nearly half of those under the age of thirty, say that they frequently feel anxious. Adults, especially in urban areas like San Francisco, face constant pressures to be successful, beautiful, and intelligent while maintaining a flawless social life. These messages are perpetuated and further engrained by social media. This combined with political turmoil, financial struggles, and the impacts of racism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, and misogyny create undue and unprecedented pressure on individuals, families, and communities. Even those that are the most resourced, feel this.
Cumulative Stressors
Day to day stressors have a cumulative impact that can take a significant toll (we call this an “allostatic load”). Major life events, such as the death of a loved one, personal trauma, or significant transition can tip the scales leaving a person feeling overwhelmed and alone. Those of us that grew up in hostile, threatening, or unpredictable environments often feel a type of accumulated stress that can carry on well into adulthood if left untreated. This residue works in the background creating feelings of doom and persistent mistrust and dissatisfaction
Your Nervous System & Anxiety
Anxiety hijacks our nervous systems and keep us in persistent states of fight, flight, or even worse - freeze. This is typically experienced as a mobilization of the nervous system as if to fend off some life-threatening situation. When in this emotional state, one may be flooded with feelings of fear and powerlessness as the primitive parts of the brain direct our life’s energy to perpetually halt an intangible threat. Over time, this state becomes habitual and addicting.
A Whole Person Approach to Treating Anxiety & Complex Trauma (C-PTSD)
You matter and deserve a life well-lived. Psychotherapy can assist you in finding your footing while providing both short-term and lasting transformation. Treatment ultimately supports the building of new neuropathways that lend themselves to a wider, more spontaneous, and accepting way of being in the world. Through an integrated approach that takes the whole-person into account, we will uncover the roots of your anxiety, understand and identify unconscious patterns in your life and relationships, and look at how the anxiety is manifesting in the here-and-now. You’ll learn and discover new coping skills and inner resources. A safe, protected, and non-judgmental environment will facilitate the processing and release of past traumas leading you to find the inner sense of peace that you’re likely longing for. Once the fog lifts, you may find yourself having developed a lasting sense of clarity, discernment, agency and with that - deeper and more enriching relationships.
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