Can Therapy Help My Anxiety?

Your symptoms and behaviors brought on by anxiety can be effectively diminished through therapy. Anxiety is a difficult burden to live with when the symptoms are persistent and excessive. Symptoms like a racing heart, panic attacks, and profuse sweating can impair your everyday functioning ability. Your relationships, opportunities and life aspirations can also be affected if you do not resolve your anxiety.

With the help of a therapist who is the “right fit”, the best treatment plan tailored to meet your needs, and having the motivation for change you can successfully ease your difficult symptoms and end your relentless worrying. You may not have any choice as to when anxiety “chose” you, but you have, in your power, the ability to maximize the benefits of therapy.

What Can I Do about My Anxiety?

When anxiety strikes, therapy can be your first line of defense. Therapy can be invaluable, aiming to ease not only the symptoms, but it can also help expose the underlying causes or reasons for your panic, fears, worries, or obsessive behaviors. Further, it can help you see your situation in a different, even less distressing way.

Being consistent in your counseling sessions is also something you can do to help decrease your anxiety. By going to sessions regularly you can experience greater gains and successfully reduce or resolve the related symptoms of your anxiety.

Another way to address your anxiety involves what you do between sessions. This means applying what you and your counselor/therapist have talked about to your daily life. This may be when you are really moving toward resolution.

How Can I Make Sure Therapy Helps My Anxiety?

  • Find the right counselor/therapist. Finding the best counselor for you is paramount because when you are working with someone you are comfortable with and that you trust, it is going to be easier to open up to them. This can increase the likelihood of your success by more information coming to the surface which can be applied to the therapy process.
  • Have an effective treatment plan. There are different approaches to take in therapy and they are largely based on the information you provide. When you and your therapist have covered the initial stages of your therapy an appropriate plan can be constructed and then implemented that will help alleviate your symptoms.
  • Create and maintain the motivation for change. If you are going to change your circumstances, it begins with you and the desire to do so. What may seem obvious can sometimes be the biggest hurdle. Finding and maintaining motivation can be different for everyone but is essential if therapy is to succeed.
  • Maintain patience. The successful outcomes of therapy cannot be rushed. In most cases, resolution cannot be found overnight. It can take a bit of time before you start to see symptoms decrease.
  • Maintain consistency. Seeing your counselor regularly is very important in maintaining the growth you have achieved and in reaching your goals faster. You will likely see the best results if this is done throughout the course of your therapy until your difficult situation and the related symptoms have been resolved.
  • ‘Know your enemy.’ Overcoming anxiety is similar to battling an enemy. Despite the familiarity, it could still be a stranger, not fully understanding how it is weakening you emotionally. Understanding anxiety is critical if you want to resolve it. With understanding comes wisdom and your willingness to embrace therapy and a healthy lifestyle for emotional and physical wellness will help your overall therapy succeed.
  • Make good decisions. The ability to make good choices is one thing that you can develop when you have been working with the right therapist. Understanding the critical role that the right choices play in your life can set the stage for your successful therapy.

When Do I Seek Help for Anxiety?

When your anxiety is taking its toll on you for longer than two weeks, it may be the right time to seek help from a licensed professional. You do not have to live with the debilitating symptoms of your anxiety – obsessive compulsions, racing thoughts, excessive worrying and fears, sleepless nights, panic attacks, etc. – when they can be resolved through counseling. A licensed counselor/therapist independently contracted with Carolina Counseling Services – Cameron, NC can help.

CCS – Cameron, NC also offers teletherapy or Telemental health. This is popularly known as online counseling. Contact us today.

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