Anxiety Counseling

Does The Anxiety Hold Too Much Power In Your Life?

What if you could overcome the fear or worry that holds you captive?

What if in social situations you could feel confident instead of anxious?

What if you could say goodbye to the anxiety and panic attacks?

When the anxiety starts to impact your daily living it is time to begin to think about anxiety treatment with an experienced therapist. Whether you are struggling with social anxiety, panic attacks, intrusive thoughts, stuck in a cycle of negative thinking, or generalized anxiety, Fostering Hopes Counseling can help you face your fears, conquer the anxiety, and find new ways to lessen the power that the anxiety holds in your life.

Signs and Symptoms of Anxiety

It is important to realize that the anxiety affects us all differently. Your struggle with the anxiety might look completely different from someone else with anxiety. There are many different symptoms and signs of anxiety, here are some of the most common ones:

  • Excessive, uncontrollable worry

  • Intrusive thoughts or feeling on edge

  • Racing or obsessive thoughts

  • Difficulties sleeping / fatigue

  • Irritability

  • Difficulties focusing or concentrating

  • Feeling trapped or wanting to escape

  • Mood swings

  • Stomachache or feeling nauseated

  • Avoiding situations, people, or places that provoke fear or anxiety

it can frustrating, difficult, and overwhelming to live with stress and anxiety.

At Fostering Hopes Counseling I will listen to your story and work with you to overcome the power that the anxiety has in your life so that you can live your best possible life. We will explore why the anxiety has a hold in your life, what it wants for you to believe, and also how to stand in defiance of it. If you’re ready to work towards reducing the power the anxiety holds in your life, call Fostering Hopes Counseling today at 443.536.7339.

Anxiety is More Common Than You Think 

According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., affecting 40 million adults in the United States age 18 and older, or 18.1% of the population every year. Anxiety disorders are highly treatable, yet only 36.9% of those suffering receive treatment.

  • People with an anxiety disorder are three to five times more likely to go to the doctor and six times more likely to be hospitalized for psychiatric disorders than those who do not suffer from anxiety disorders.

  • Anxiety disorders develop from a complex set of risk factors, including genetics, brain chemistry, personality, and life events.

Anxiety Treatment Can Help After Major Life Changes

There are all kinds of reasons why people struggle with anxiety every day.  Often large life changes in a person’s life can cause stress. Major life events and transitions can include:

  • moving

  • losing a loved one

  • the end of a relationship

  • chronic illness or a new medical diagnosis

  • the start of a new job or the loss of a job

  • family or relational drama

Change can leave you overwhelmed. And when you add in your day-to-day responsibilities of parenting, work, paying bills, grocery shopping, studying, looking for a new job, (and so much more!), you may feel as though you are just barely keeping your head above water.

Narrative therapy for THE anxiety

Narrative therapy holds that you are not the problem, but that the problem (the anxiety) is the problem. No problem holds 100% power in our lives. Working together, we will look for times when the anxiety has held less power in your life and what you were doing differently in those times so that we can work on building these skills. Working together we will look for the natural strengths that you have utilized in the past and present, the ways in which the anxiety attempts to hold power in your life, and how it wants you to see yourself, others, and the world.

There is hope, you don’t have to live with THE anxiety forever

Anxiety is very treatable, yet sadly only 37% of people who struggle with it seek help. Will you be one of the 37%? A different life is within your grasp, reach out to Fostering Hopes Counseling today in order to begin your story of healing and wholeness. To begin:

  1. Connect with Fostering Hopes Counseling today for a free consultation phone call.

  2. Schedule an appointment

  3. Begin taking your steps towards healing

ANXIETY COUNSELING IN WESTMINSTER CAN HELP YOUR LIFE BE DIFFERENT

OTHER MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES AT FOSTERING HOPES COUNSELING

Anxiety counseling isn’t the only service we offer in our Westminster counseling clinic. Among the other mental health services Fostering Hopes Counseling provides are PTSD and trauma treatment, depression counseling, counseling for college students, and religious trauma therapy.