Anxiety Treatment
Your Path to Peace & Confidence
✔ Standard 55-minute sessions
✔ Private, comfortable office or therapy room
✔ Options for weekly, multiple times per week, or monthly sessions
✔ We adjust meeting frequency based on your progress and evolving needs
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At South Hills Counseling, we believe Anxiety Treatment offers a powerful opportunity for meaningful change and emotional freedom.
Our approach creates a comfortable, supportive atmosphere where you can explore triggers, understand your anxiety patterns, and develop strategies that promote lasting calm and growth.
We tailor our therapeutic methods to your unique needs, helping you transform worry and fear into confidence and courage as you move through life with greater ease.
SESSION ENVIRONMENT
✔ Relaxed, welcoming space with comfortable seating
✔ Conversations that help identify both physical and emotional aspects of anxiety
✔ Complete confidentiality, with clear explanation of legal exceptions
✔ Practical skill-building exercises to reinforce anxiety management techniques
Understanding Anxiety
Do you often feel anxious, worried, and afraid?
Dealing with stress and worry is normal for everyone, but for some people, the worry and stress can feel paralyzing. Anxiety can make people afraid to ask for help when they need it most.
Anxiety treatment can help you identify and cope with your fears and worries.
Many people struggle with the emotional, physical, and mental symptoms of anxiety. According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA), anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the United States, affecting approximately 40 million adults. You are not alone in this! Anxiety can be difficult to conquer alone, but with effective anxiety treatment, you can learn skills to help you find relief.
You may feel anxiety in these ways:
Constant worry or "obsessing"
Fears or phobias
Always expecting the worst out of a situation
Feeling restless, on edge, and fidgety
Difficulty falling or staying asleep
Feelings of panic (racing pulse, hot flashes, chills, shortness of breath, tightness in your chest or abdomen, intestinal upset, fear of dying or having a heart attack, feeling detached from your body)
Feeling over-alert or hyper-vigilant or unable to relax
Overeating or under-eating
Fear of social situations
Goals of Anxiety Treatment
Anxiety Treatment at South Hills Counseling addresses your specific concerns and aspirations.
Personalized Objectives
Understanding the mechanics of anxiety in your brain and body
Identifying your unique anxiety triggers and patterns
Developing effective coping skills to calm your nervous system
Building confidence in anxiety-provoking situations
Reducing physical symptoms of anxiety
Creating strategies for long-term anxiety management
Improving self-esteem affected by persistent worry
Growth-Oriented Approach
Our therapy goes beyond symptom relief to foster comprehensive emotional development:
Focusing on building resilience and inner strength
Learning to trust yourself in challenging situations
Enhancing your ability to respond rather than react to stress
Creating meaningful change that extends beyond therapy sessions
Developing a new relationship with uncertainty
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
✔ Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)
✔ Panic disorder and panic attacks
✔ Social/ Health/ Performance anxiety
✔ Phobias and specific fears
✔ Anxiety related to trauma or PTSD
✔ Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Our Approach to Anxiety Treatment
The Mind-Body Connection
It is common to feel physical responses in our bodies when we feel anxious. Anxiety treatment can help you understand how reactions in your brain and body contribute to your worried thoughts and emotions.
Our brains often get triggered when stressed or scared, and we have a "fight, flight, or freeze" response. This response was meant to help us survive dangerous situations. However, sometimes our brains malfunction, and decide that everything is a threat, and we start feeling the physical reactions of "fight, flight, or freeze" at times when there is no danger, or when we need to feel brave, but our brain wants us to run the other way!
Sweaty palms, racing heart, shortness of breath, a feeling of panic…. This is all part of your brain helping you survive. It is helpful if you are trying to survive a life-threatening situation, but not so helpful in a job interview, on a date, or just going into a public place!
Finding Relief & Building Confidence
Do you ever wonder what it might be like to be that person who seems to move through life with ease, poise, and confidence? The fear and worry associated with anxiety can often affect your self-esteem and confidence in many areas in life- work, social situations, and relationships. In anxiety treatment, we can identify how you're being held back in your life, and develop strategies to help you act and feel confident, relaxed, and at ease in social, professional, and other anxiety provoking situations.
In anxiety treatment sessions, you will also learn how to identify the physical symptoms of anxiety, so that you can understand when your brain and nervous system are sending you signals that may increase your worrying and stress.
We can help you develop coping skills to calm your nervous system, so that you can then calm your anxious thinking. With help, you can move forward with confidence and courage in your life.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sometimes, anxious people hide their anxiety well. Anxiety can take the form of debilitating fear that makes it impossible to leave your house, fly on an airplane, or stand in an elevator. Then, it can feel like the world knows you're experiencing anxiety. It can also occur in people who can still take care of numerous responsibilities, talk to people all day, or look like they are functioning well on the surface.
Anxiety knows no boundaries, no conditions. We live in a world where we face tremendous pressure to be "perfect", to perform, and deliver, no matter what you do or who you are. Anxiety manifests in our relationships, our work, and our general level of happiness in life. With anxiety treatment, we can help you identify what anxiety is, what causes it, and how to live a life free of it!
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Even if you have a personality that seems wired for worry and stress, there is always a way to learn to calm yourself. You may not have anything to compare yourself to, because worrying has always been a part of you. Experiencing a new level of peace and acceptance is possible when you learn what drives your anxiety and how to calm yourself. The best news is that anxiety is treatable. Anxiety treatment can help you learn the tools you need to help you feel safe, courageous, and calm.
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While everyone experiences stress and occasional anxiety, the difference often lies in intensity, duration, and impact on daily functioning. If worry is persistent, excessive, difficult to control, and interferes with your daily activities, relationships, or quality of life, it may be more than normal stress. During your initial consultation, we'll help you understand where your experiences fall on this spectrum and develop an appropriate treatment plan.
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The duration of treatment varies based on your specific type of anxiety, its severity, and your personal goals. Some clients experience significant improvement in 8-12 sessions, while others benefit from longer-term support. We'll regularly assess your progress and adjust our approach accordingly. Remember that learning to manage anxiety is a skill that develops over time with consistent practice.
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Not necessarily. While medication can be helpful for some people with anxiety disorders, many clients achieve significant improvement through therapy alone. We focus on evidence-based therapeutic approaches that help you understand and manage anxiety without medication. However, if we believe medication might be beneficial, we can discuss referral options to a psychiatrist who can evaluate this possibility alongside your therapy.
Ready to Begin Your Journey Toward a Peaceful Life?
We're here to help you overcome anxiety and discover a more peaceful, confident life! We look forward to supporting you on your journey toward greater peace, confidence, and emotional well-being.