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  • Anxiety

    Everyone gets nervous, but when your worries become overwhelming and begin negatively impacting your life, it can be a sign you need extra support.

    If you frequently experience three or more of these symptoms:

    • Nervousness, restlessness, or being tense
    • Feelings of danger, panic, or dread
    • Rapid breathing or hyperventilation
    • Increased or heavy sweating
    • Trembling or muscle twitching
    • Weakness or lethargy
    • Difficulty focusing or thinking clearly about anything other than the thing you’re worried about
    • Insomnia
    • Obsessions about certain ideas, a sign of obsessive-compulsive disorder
    • Anxiety surrounding a particular life event or experience that has occurred in the past, a sign of post-traumatic stress disorder

    …you may be experiencing anxiety.

    Not only can I give you tools and techniques to help you manage your symptoms, I can also help you understand the true source of your struggles.

    Together, we can come up with practical actions you can take to directly address what’s really keeping you down. My psychodynamic approach could be especially beneficial if you haven’t had long-term success addressing these issues with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

    Recommended Reading

    Hang-xiety? How a Night of Drinking Can Tank Your Mood.
    Melinda Wenner Moyer, New York Times

    How We Misunderstand Anxiety and Miss Out on Its Benefits
    Dacher Keltner and Kira M. Newman, Greater Good Magazine

    How to Stop Ruminating
    Hannah Seo, New York Times 

    Books

    Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Person: Improving Outcomes for That Minority of People Who Are the Majority of Clients
    Elaine N. Aron

    The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
    Elaine N. Aron Ph.D.

    The Highly Sensitive Person’s Workbook
    Elaine N. Aron Ph.D.