Anxiety Therapy in North Richland Hills, TX
How do I know if I am experiencing anxiety?
Do you find yourself spending a significant amount of time worrying about things that haven’t happened yet? Or things that have already happened? For example, are you replaying that conversation with your boss on repeat, wondering if she thought you were a complete idiot? Do you find yourself waking up with a pit in your stomach most of the days? Or do you experience dread about different obligations in your life?
If so, you are in the right place. Here at Luxx Therapy, we know that these feelings can range from debilitating to significantly impacting your daily life, and we are here to help. We know that one out of every three Americans struggle with feelings of excessive worry or anxiousness, and we believe that we have the tools to help our clients engage in their lives in the ways they desire.
Why does it seem like everyone is so anxious these days?
Our therapists take a whole-body, balanced view of anxiety. First of all, defining anxiety is helpful when learning how to understand our own personal and societal views of anxiety. Anxiety is a feeling. Most of us experience more than 400 emotions in a day, and anxiety is often one of those. In a recent study, researchers found it to be the third most experienced emotion for the subjects. Commonly, you might hear people say, “I have anxiety.” While we know that oftentimes, individuals are describing an emotion rather than a diagnosis, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, requires specific traits to be persisting for a significant amount of time. Regardless of whether or not you are experiencing Generalized Anxiety Disorder or feelings of anxiousness, here at Luxx Therapy, we know how to help.
Is Anxiety therapy the right choice for me?
Despite how common anxiety concerns may be, these struggles can be very isolating when you’re unable to sleep at night, get irritable with your loved ones, or find yourself exhausted at the end of every day. You may even find yourself in the emergency room because of the severity of your anxiety symptoms and may experience a lot of frustration at being told “you’re fine” when you very much don’t feel fine. If you have experienced anxiety for any amount of time, the quality of your life may be reduced if you have made changes to avoid situations, conversations, or activities that can trigger feelings. You may also be masking your anxiety through substance use, binge-watching Netflix, and endless scrolling of Instagram, and never addressing the factors contributing to feelings of anxiety.
Therapy for Anxiety Can Help Address Feelings of Frustration
While anxiety is a natural part of the human experience, your responses to anxiety can sometimes cause you to feel out of control or overwhelmed. You may have even developed a disdain, frustration or hatred for yourself for “being this way”. This is when the expert counselors at Luxx Therapy can be of great assistance to help you take the quality of your life back at work, as a parent, at school, in social situations, or whatever else anxiety is stopping you from doing.
Understanding Anxiety
In order to understand anxiety, we can start from a non-judgmental perspective on the functions of our body. In a symphony of automatic internal adjustments, our body and our brain work together to ensure proper response to perceived threats. There are countless metaphors applicable to illustrate one’s relationship with anxiety. We will visualize our internal anxiety system like a smoke detector, helping us respond appropriately to danger, and mobilizing resources to help address the threat. In case of a fire, the smoke detector goes off, indicating that danger is nearby. However, through past negative experiences, messages we have internalized, societal pressures, specific situations, or genetics, our smoke detector system can become overactive. We may begin to hear the smoke alarm due to steam from a boiling pot of water, meaning our internal processing system is more sensitive than it needs to be. When we respond to the boiling pot of water in the way we would respond to a fire, we may be acting based on feelings of anxiety.
How do therapists at Luxx Therapy treat anxiety?
One of our first steps is understanding anxiety in a new way, and taking steps to change our relationship with anxiety towards one of curiosity. When approaching something with curiosity, we become interested in all aspects of it, without judgment. In order to fully understand how anxiety functions in your life, we have to develop a curiosity about it, to understand it better. After we have done that, we can notice factors that impact your feelings of anxiousness. To return to the smoke detector metaphor, we could explore things causing your internal anxiety system to perceive a boiling pot of water as a fire. Do we need to explore childhood events? Could it be a trauma that has impacted your internal system? Perhaps there are too many pots on the stove of your life. Together, your therapist and you will come up with a plan to help you feel in control of your life again and decrease unwanted anxious feelings.
By working with our counselors at Luxx Therapy to change your relationship with your anxiety, you can learn to work with yourself to more accurately respond to actual threats, and reset your system for the alarm system to recede into its natural advantageous role. I.e.: You see a bear, you feel anxious! This would indicate your alarm system is working well!
Special Populations
We understand that feelings of anxiety may naturally increase during various phases of life, and are prepared to work with such individuals in a holistic fashion. Collectively, our therapists have additional experience in working with clients transitioning from high school to college, college to the workforce, into married life, through divorce, navigating the birth of children, into the empty nest phase, retirement, aging parents, and more.
Get Started with Anxiety Therapy in North Richland Hills, TX Today and Regain Control!
At Luxx Therapy, we understand that taking the initial step to reach out for help can be challenging when dealing with anxiety. Here's what you can anticipate when you call or email us: You will be greeted by a member of our administrative team, all of whom are also therapists. This ensures that you'll encounter empathy and understanding right from your first contact with us to your ongoing interactions. We'll ask you a few general questions about your specific concerns related to anxiety so that we can match you with the therapist best suited to assist you. We encourage you to visit our website and explore the profiles of our therapists, giving you the autonomy to choose the therapist who aligns best with your needs. Take these steps to initiate your journey toward managing and overcoming anxiety with us.
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Other Mental Health Services Available at Luxx Therapy
In addition to Therapy for Anxiety, we offer a wide range of services at Luxx Therapy geared towards meeting you where you are in your mental health journey including Trauma Therapy and Couples Therapy. We will walk the path to understanding and healing with you whether you are in need of Individual Counseling, Couples Counseling, or Family Therapy! Reach out to us today.