Is anxiety taking over your life? Does it feel like you can’t control it no matter how hard you try? 

Symptoms of anxiety include:

• Nervousness, restlessness or feeling 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

Therapy can help you uncover the underlying causes of worries and fears, learn how to relax, look at situations in a new, less frightening way, and develop better coping mechanisms and problem-solving skills.

Charelle is a Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP) and has training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP).