Anxiety Therapy in NYC

You may experience physical fatigue, trouble sleeping, and difficulty making it through the day without feeling exhausted. Perhaps you try to quiet your anxiety and shame by being more productive. But the more you try to keep busy, the less room you have in your life for joy, relaxation, and self-care.

You may also struggle with insecurities and need constant reassurance that what you’re doing or thinking is okay. Yet even when you get the reassurance you need, you just go right back to square one and end up just as stressed as before.

Perhaps you have lost the ability to be spontaneous, and while you may hear that small voice inside you that wants to create, explore, or try new things, you are so loaded with responsibilities and obligations that you ignore it.

What would life be like if you could prioritize your health and well-being more regularly?

If you could wake up, quiet your mind from racing thoughts, and not feel that familiar dread, you’d probably feel like yourself again. Meeting with a counselor at Inside Psychotherapy can help you manage your anxiety and experience peace of mind no matter where you are in life.

Stress and anxiety are common, and a mild amount of anxiety is helpful for our survival, like when we need to avoid something to keep us safe. When anxiety persists even when danger is not present, however, it becomes unhealthy and counterproductive. Nearly 30 percent of people will have some form of unhealthy anxiety in their lives at some point.

One of the most common reasons people are so anxious is the culture of hyper-productivity and delayed gratification. As adults, it’s not surprising that we learn to delay our joy until we eventually deny ourselves of it entirely. Furthermore, the current climate of high demands on parents, with infinite information on how to parent “better,” has become untenable for well-meaning caregivers.

Modern life creates many issues that compound anxiety and make it more likely to become a problem. The demands on our time and attention with 24/7 media input hamper our ability to slow down and pay attention to our most basic needs.

The nature of remote work has offered a lot more flexibility for many people professionally but has blurred the lines between work and personal time, making the potential for recovery from burnout a challenge. What makes matters worse, some cultures praise and highly regard overworking yourself and prioritizing accomplishments over self-care and rest.

It’s hard to know when an intervention like therapy could provide relief, as it’s natural to gravitate to the familiar, even if it perpetuates your stress. But the truth is that falling back on familiar behaviors like avoidance or hyper-focusing on work won’t get to the source of anxiety. Anxiety counseling can allow you to break the patterns that have kept you from living your best life.

At Inside Psychotherapy, we’ll challenge your negative self-beliefs and celebrate your victories. Meeting with a therapist for your anxiety can help bring your wish to live well back into focus while giving you helpful insights into the resistance and discomfort that comes up along the way.

We will explore the origins of your core issues in terms of what you learned as a child, what behavioral models you saw, and how you felt rewarded or unrewarded in your upbringing. You’ll have a chance to think about how you want to spend your time, energy, and resources.

Over the long term, our goals are to integrate more mindfulness and joy into your life, as well as to deepen contentment both personally and professionally.