Anxiety Treatment
Is Fear-Based Thinking Compromising Your Confidence?
Do you or your child tend to feel overwhelmed by daily stress? Is your inner monologue regularly self-critical, fearful, and nervous? Has an inability to remain present impacted work, school, relationships, or your daily functioning? Are you wanting to learn more about how anxiety treatment can improve your daily life?
Anxiety can result in a variety of symptoms that make life uncomfortable and isolating for adults and children. You may find that you lack emotional regulation, otherwise known as the ability to manage distress. Due to this, you might be quick to frustration, confusion, or irritability. Maybe you’ve noticed symptoms of depression—including physical discomfort and low self-esteem—creeping in alongside your anxious thinking.
It’s possible you or your child are reckoning with unsustainable or damaging expectations, resulting in negative self-talk and a ceaseless inner critic. As such, you may struggle with perfectionism or imposter syndrome, causing you to believe that you are undeserving of your accomplishments. Wishing you could go back in time and correct every little mistake from your past, you may be inadvertently missing out on the joy of the present and the possibility of the future.
Anxiety has probably impacted your social experiences and interpersonal relationships. Whether you ruminate on your interactions, battle intense self-doubt when meeting new people, or feel too distracted to focus on your friends, family, or partner, your anxiety impacts more than just your daily life and outlook. Your relationships may be suffering as a result of worrisome and fearful thinking.
Worries and fears can become more manageable as you develop self-compassion. Treatment for anxiety helps children, teens, and adults shift perspective and find relief from the symptoms disrupting daily life.
Anxiety Disorders Are Common And Treatable Conditions 
Fear and worry are natural responses to life’s stressors, but when early symptoms are left untreated, we run the risk of developing an anxiety disorder. Research indicates that around 20 percent of adults and 7 percent of children/teens experience an anxiety disorder, with most individuals developing symptoms before age 21. Though common, anxiety can have adverse physical, emotional, and social consequences that impact our self-esteem and ability to function.
Unfortunately, from a young age—especially in the era of technology—society conditions us to always be “on” and available. This can translate to unrealistic standards, a lack of balance, or burnout. In a culture with very limiting definitions of failure and success, it can be hard to feel confident, self-assured, and know the difference between what is expected of us and what is actually desired. Instead of having clarity, we often find ourselves caught up in the noise of perfectionism.
On top of managing everyday stress, significant life events involving trauma, loss, and transition are likely to intensify our worries. It can be hard to identify our anxiety symptoms, origins, and triggers with all these moving parts.
Therapy provides adults and children with a safe space to explore experiences and emotions. By participating in your therapy at Serenity Experiential Family Therapy Center, you will learn lifelong coping and regulation skills for managing anxiety.
You Can Learn To Reduce Your Fears And Regulate Your Emotions In Anxiety Treatment At Serenity Experiential Family Therapy Center
Fear-based thinking has likely clouded your or your child’s judgment, compromising self-esteem and ability to make decisions. But therapy offers the chance for one-on-one quality time with a trained, nonjudgmental clinician who can help you understand and cope with anxiety.
At Serenity Experiential Family Therapy Center, our therapists are trained in various counseling approaches that specifically target anxiety disorders. Whether we’re helping you sort through past experiences, finding focus in the present, or clarifying your values and goals for the future, you will learn to adjust your outlook and practice essential coping skills in therapy.
Our Approach
Anxiety treatment begins with a client intake to help your Serenity therapist understand the symptoms impacting you or your child. From there, we will collaborate with you to develop a treatment plan that incorporates a tailored combination of experiential, body-based, behavioral, and traditional talk therapies. Depending on your needs, we can facilitate a structured approach focused on solutions and examine past experiences to help you understand your anxiety symptoms and triggers.
Experiential therapy can improve mindfulness as you understand how past wounds have shaped your present experiences. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) can help adjust the relationship between your anxiety and behaviors, and Eye Movement Desensitization (EMDR) allows you to calm your nervous system as you neutralize your stress response. For children, in particular, Play Therapy and Synergetic Play Therapy can enhance self-awareness and emotional regulation to reduce the impact of anxiety.
When customized to address your anxiety symptoms, these treatments can strengthen your connection to yourself and others. With the collaboration of your therapist, you can make sense of the relationship between your history, learned stress responses, and anxiety. Soon, you will have cultivated the necessary skills to regulate your emotions and experiences in a way that suits your lifestyle and needs.
Our therapists are here to support and empower you or your child on the path to self-awareness. You are strong and resilient, and working with our clinicians, you can find the clarity and confidence to free yourself from fear to create the life you want.
Maybe You’re Considering Seeing A Specialist For Your Or Your Child’s Anxiety, But You Don’t Know If Counseling Is Right For You…
Can treatment cure my anxiety once and for all?
At Serenity EFTC, our clinicians are invested in helping you find lasting relief from your distress. But it’s not as simple as overcoming your anxiety, as anxiety is an important and natural human response.
Instead, the goal of therapy is to improve your experience by creating awareness of how you respond—which decreases the severity of anxiety symptoms. Relief is possible with effective therapeutic support.
How long does anxiety treatment last?
Therapy does not adhere to a “one-size-fits-all” plan. Anxiety treatment is tailored to meet your needs and match a pace that feels comfortable for you.
As we grow in our work together, we will collaborate to assess, explore, and re-evaluate your needs. By the end of treatment for anxiety, you will have the knowledge and confidence to live your life with peace and serenity.
How do I know that treatment is truly confidential if someone else at Serenity is working with my family/my partner and me?
We specialize in therapeutic services for clients of all ages, including individual, couples, and family counseling. If you are working with more than one therapist at Serenity, you will get to decide what and how much each of your therapists can share with one another. This agreement works to your advantage because it allows us to team up with your spouse/family as a unit for deeper, faster improvements.
You always maintain a right to confidentiality in therapy. If you end up involving other clinicians and family members in treatment, we will only explore the themes that are important to your progress, and you will always be clear on the limits of confidentiality throughout counseling.
You Can Live According To Your Values And Not Others’ Expectations
If you or your child’s life has been adversely impacted by anxiety and stress, therapeutic treatment at Serenity Experiential Family Therapy Center can offer lasting change.
To find out more or to schedule a free 15-minute consultation with our anxiety disorder therapists, contact us or call 303-606-6818.