Anxiety: You Aren’t Alone
Struggling with anxiety can leave an individual feeling very isolated. You may wonder if anyone else feels the way you do. You might even worry that you’ll never feel differently.
You are not alone in how you feel. In fact, anxiety disorders affect 40 million adults over 18 in the United States and about 1 in 4 adolescents ages 13-18. If you’re feeling discouraged, remember that there are many effective treatments for anxiety and a large number of people do benefit from professional support.
Because anxiety can be such a painful and difficult emotion, I make it a point to validate, normalize, and acknowledge some of the tension that clients can be struggling with when suffering with anxiety. Often times the very process of acknowledging the anxiety can begin to subdue it. Additionally, in counseling we may discuss and try to ameliorate your fears, attempt to better understand your needs, and work on finding ways to better cope with and manage the anxiety. The environment of my counseling practice is one of compassion and collaboration, not judgment or shame.