Is anxiety causing trouble with sleeping, mood, working, appetite, and eating?
Do you worry and feel anxious about your relationship or family members?
When you are in social settings, do you palms sweat and heart race, and do you feel like you are having a panic attack?
Did do you feel fearful and concerned about the future?
Are you worried to make a decision about anything? Anxious thoughts can hold you back from enjoying life fully. Do you have trouble sleeping and appetite changes? Right now, there may be a lot of big decisions and major transitions coming up in your life. Holistic anxiety therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut is available at Wisdom Within Counseling.
Trauma and PTSD Counseling For Children, Teens, and Adults
High levels of anxiety can be signs you are suffering from PTSD deep down.
Do you need help managing anxiety, PTSD, sleep issues, and trauma symptoms?
What examples of trauma events that lead to PTSD symptoms?
Experiencing sexual abuse, physical abuse, bullying, verbal or emotional abuse is trauma. A medical experience that went wrong is a trauma. Watching your best friend die is trauma. Many women have trauma due to traumatic births, infertility, and miscarriages. Having a loved one die suddenly or unexpectedly is a traumatic event and loss. Art and mind-body therapy can improve communication and concentration, and even help reduce feelings of social anxiety.
Therapy is a way to build lifelong coping tools for past painful emotional experiences and heal from PTSD.
What events may trigger anxiety?
For one, are you considering moving, purchasing a home, or going through another life-altering change causing you anxiety? Sometimes, anxiety can be protective. Anxiety can keep you safe and prevent bad things from happening again. But, sometimes, anxiety gets in the way of enjoying life. Anxiety can come from going through a really scary life event too. Intense, scary events are considered traumas. At times, anxiety creeps up when you least expect it, like in social situations. At times, you may feel indecisive and have an increase in fears. Overall, anxiety therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut can help you manage anxiety symptoms.
Signs of anxiety
Trouble sleeping
Racing thoughts
Obsessive thoughts
Worries
Insecurities
Lack of confidence
Perfectionism
Body image issues or dieting
Physical body pain
Irritable bowel syndrome or digestive issues
Anxiety can lead to insecurity around decisions
Do you have trouble making decisions and often feel torn, frazzled, and scattered? Or, do you feel like you never have enough time? Maybe, you are racing around trying to get everything on a very long to-do list complete. Especially, major decisions can cause anxiety, worry, and sleep issues. In more severe cases, anxiety causes insomnia and problems concentrating at work. Overall, untreated anxiety and obsessive thoughts negatively impact your daily life. The team at Wisdom Within Counseling offer holistic anxiety therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut.
Working with an anxiety counselor can give you positive coping skills to tolerate distress holistically.
Next time you feel anxiety, you take the holistic coping skills from your counseling sessions, into life. From anxiety therapy, you can choose healthier, calming thoughts. At first, it might feel like anxiety takes power over you. However, with anxiety therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut, you can build a positive coping toolbox. When you have anxiety, you make pick your skin more. Also, you may bite your nails, have obsessive thoughts, and repetitive behaviors like OCD. Counseling can help you let go of negative behaviors that occur with anxiety.
To begin, use the pink button below for a phone consult for anxiety therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut.
Now, do you find your anxiety and fear gets in the way of enjoying your relationship?
In general, when you have anxiety, it might make it hard to get out there and be social. You may be afraid of social rejection. Or, you may be afraid you are bad at something like dancing in public. Your partner may want to be social, but your social anxiety interferes. At the last minute, you cancel plans due to your social anxiety.
Anxiety therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut can give you tools to stop anxiety from stealing your joy and pleasure.
During intimate moments, do you feel your anxiety pulling your mind to the past or the future? Is it hard to stay in the present moment in your romantic relationship?
It is hard to enjoy life and take part in romance with a high level of anxiety. Overall, anxiety therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut supports coping tools. Often, living with anxiety becomes a constant state of fear. You fear you will never be good enough, and it becomes a vicious cycle. Therefore, attending anxiety therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut helps you focus on accepting yourself in the present moment.
Anxiety counseling can help improve your decision making process.
And, regular counseling helps you better identify anxiety when it comes up. You can understand your anxiety triggers and build a positive coping tool box. That way, you can release anxiety when it comes, and would normally overwhelm you. You can learn to stay focused on positive feelings of the moment verses listening to anxiety. With relationship or family troubles or work stress, anxiety may increase.
Anxiety therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut gives you healthy alternatives if you find yourself reckless or having perfectionism traits.
Sometimes, people with anxiety act with impulsivity and make bad decisions. Anxiety can be paralyzing without the help of Wisdom Within’s professional counseling. The team at Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut specialize in treating anxiety, panic disorders, and obsessive fears. You gain skills for confidently managing your anxious feelings.
What are reasons to meet with an anxiety counselor?
Substance and alcohol use issues and wanting to live a sober life are good reasons to seek online or in person therapy.
Additionally, a good reason to seek therapy is if you are using or abusing alcohol, drugs or any other substances due to anxiety. At times, you may find yourself coming home from work and drinking a little bit too much alcohol. Social drinking is common with anxious thoughts. Then, the next day you find yourself drinking just one more beer than the day before. Before you know it, you found yourself slipping into addiction and alcoholism again and trying to numb the anxiety away. In holistic anxiety counseling, you can understand the root of your addiction and creatively express yourself.
Anxiety therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut helps you choose healthy coping tools rather than numbing out with alcoholism.
Maybe, you drink socially because you really feel anxious or insecure about yourself. Perhaps, social anxiety fuels alcohol use. So, from counseling, you can gain self-confidence skills to have fun without drugs or alcohol. You can learn to love and accept yourself from specialized anxiety counseling. Furthermore, substance and alcohol use can interfere with romantic and intimate relationships. Excessive alcohol and substances are common to cover up social anxiety and nerves. Counseling can teach you ways to support yourself and start to feel confident. Therefore, anxiety counseling can help you develop better self-esteem, self-worth, and value yourself in relationships.
Also, anxiety therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut is LGBTQIA+, transgender, gay, bisexual, and bi-gender affirming.
Anxiety can be from being in the closet as gay, transgender, bisexual, or pansexual
Sometimes, being gay, bisexual, or identifying as transgender causes anxiety and fear. These fears and anxieties can be greater when there are strict religious beliefs in culture or childhood. Maybe, your parents are strict and religious. So, anytime you’re at home, you are anxious. Being in the closet and keeping your gender or sexual orientation a secret, can lead to fear and anxiety at home and work. There is a constant fear of someone finding out. As well, even after you come out as bisexual, pansexual, queer, non binary, or transgender, you can talk about increasing anxiety. Anticipation of uncertainty in the future can bring up more anxiety.
Maybe, life adjustments like going to college or changing jobs is scary because you don’t know who will accept you. At Wisdom Within Counseling, our team of therapists specialize in supporting confidence in the coming out process for people part of the LGBTQIA+ community.
LGBTQIA+ speciality anxiety counseling, coming out, gender questioning or transgender feelings
The process of coming out means having to be out there, in the world, as gay or transgender. Prejudice is very real. Coming out as gay, bisexual, or trans can lead to more bullying. Once out of the closet, there are more stressors of how to handle transphobia. If you experience homophonic comments at your place of work, you may develop anxiety around going to work.
Overcoming anxiety can mean building confidence. Any homophobic or transphobic comments can lead to anxiety and feeling unsafe at home or work. As well, rejection about gender identity or sexual orientation at home triggers and worsens symptoms of anxiety. At Wisdom Within Counseling, our team of therapists specialize in anxiety and fear related to gender and sexuality. Wisdom Within Counseling offers LGBTQIA+ affirming care.
To begin, use the pink button below to book a phone consult for anxiety therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut.
What does a morning look like with someone with anxiety?
For instance, anxiety wakes you up. Your heart feels like it is beating right out of your chest, but you’re in bed. Your mind starts creating a long list of what needs to be done for the day. Right away, your mind is racing with being responsible and accomplishments. You start worrying about your day ahead. For one, you are worrying about your spouse, if they still love you, and if people will like you.
What are anxious thoughts?
Will you get the new promotion? Other worries come in as you drive down the road to goto work. “Did I turn off the stove and did I turn off the oven?” Out of anxiety, you turn your car around to double check. You start thinking the worst, like, “Did my house burn down? It would be my fault.” The stove was not on after all.
Now, you’re late to work, and anxious about that. You hear a noise and worry you might have a flat tire. However, you realize it isn’t flat. You get to work, and start biting your nails and pick your hang nails. When someone makes a mistake, you tend to take responsibility for that mistake. You people please and try your very hardest to look perfect and keep it together.
Panic attacks and anxiety attacks impact work and your personal life.
Often times, anxiety causes an adult to seek counseling because worry, overwhelming feelings, and panic attacks cause problems at work. Also, panic disorder and anxiety can lead to issues, such as fear to leave your house to go to work. With anxiety, you don’t feel like your best self anymore. Anxiety starts to take charge of your life and overwhelms you. As well, anxiety impedes your work life and prevents you from doing things that you normally would enjoy doing.
Obsessive Behaviors and Thoughts in Anxiety Therapy
At times, obsessive compulsive behaviors and overwhelming anxiety can lead to negative behavior issues. For instance, some adults bite their nails, pick scabs, pick acne, bite their lips, and pick their hair. Anxious behaviors are often obsessive and repetitive. Sometimes, a teen doesn’t realize how badly they have been picking at their blemished skin. These skin picking and other picking disorders are a result of untreated anxiety. Sometimes, theres insecurity, worry, or lack of confidence under anxious behaviors. Through anxiety counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut, your therapist can work with you to create a personalized plan. You may refer back to your anxiety plan for anxiety management at home and increasing self-confidence.
Lifelong positive coping tools for anxiety in counseling
To add, working with an anxiety counselor, can give you lifelong coping mechanisms for loving and accepting yourself no matter what feeling you may have. With your anxiety counselor, you can develop social confidence skills to embrace your authentic self, be a natural leader, and and remember your positive qualities.
We help people of all ages learn to believe in themselves to create a life they love. The team at Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut help you build confidence, clarity, and self-esteem tools.
Negative physical symptoms and mental symptoms are good reasons to work with an anxiety counselor
Anxiety can cause stomach pain, digestive issues, trouble eating, and sleeping problems. Wisdom Within Counseling offers positive coping strategies and lifestyle changes to sleep, food and mood. Working with an anxiety and depression counselor in Southeastern Connecticut can help you learn skills to calmly handle stress and tension in your relationships, family, and in your daily life. To add, mental and physical tension as well as emotional stress have a connection. At Wisdom Within Counseling, you receive mind-body support.
What signs of anxiety are physical?
Anxiety and depression can show up in your body and stomach pain, headaches, migraines, trouble sleeping, joint pain, IBS, and overall sluggishness. If you’ve been through a major life change, a huge adjustment, or a trauma, it is okay to no feel like yourself. Holistic anxiety counseling can help you work through this intense experience and create and maintain calmness in your life.
Breakups and relationships can lead to anxiety and self-doubt
Generally speaking, going through a break up or divorce can be really challenging. Let us support you. It is normal to have anxiety after a break up, even when it was amicable. For one, it’s tough losing your best friend and your relationship all the same time. It can feel like a major loss and grief. Especially, it can be hard when you have intermingled friends and live together. Relationship counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut can help you get clear on your relationship goals, desires, gender, and sexuality. A break up means that you have an opportunity to redefine yourself and your hobbies. In East Lyme, Connecticut, we are LGBTQIA+ affirming therapists. Frequently, we work with non-binary, gender questioning, transgender people, and same sex couples.
Anxiety can come from loss and grief
Loss, grief, and the anticipation of loss, are major life events. Plus, you may need a therapist to sign papers for you to take time off from work to visit your aging parents before they pass. Has a loved one, spouse, or sibling recently been diagnosed with a major illness? If you answer yes, contact us today for counseling at 860-451-9364. From counseling, you can gain calmness, clarity, confidence, and gentleness for yourself. To note, we offer counseling online via phone or video and in person East Lyme therapy.
To begin, use the pink button below to book a phone consultation to work with an anxiety specialist.
Spending habits with anxiety
Sometimes, when people are depressed and anxious, they will overspend and get themselves into lots of debt. Therefore, working with an anxiety counselor can help you develop a healthy relationship with money, without fear. Additionally, couples often fight about money matters. And, individual and relationship counseling can help you smoothly, calmly communicate. Lastly, your anxiety and depression therapist can help with self-motivation to balance your personal finances.
Food and eating anxiety counseling
Also, your therapist can help you build a healthy relationship with food and overcome eating issues and eating disorders.
For one, do you feel shame and guilt around eating food, restrict food, or over eat more than one meal in a sitting? Well, if you have fear around weight gain, or have gained or lost a large amount of weight recently, therapy would be helpful for you. These are signs that you need help from a professional counselor right away. Depression go hand in hand with anorexia, bulimia, over eating or under eating. Overall, you anxiety counselor can help you gain a healthy relationship with food, and positive outlets for unloading work stress. Call or text 860-451-9364 to begin with a phone consultation for online or in person individual counseling for a better self-esteem, relaxation, healthier relationship skills, and social confidence.
Meet with an anxiety counselor through Teletherapy, online, through phone/video for a safe and confidential therapy experience from any location.
Career based anxiety counseling
For one, you might be stuck in a job that no longer serves you. Also, when you come home from work, do you feel depressed, angry, and resentful at your job itself? WIn addition to in person counseling in Southeastern Connecticut, our team of creative therapists offer online, phone counseling, and distance video sessions as well as email therapy. Well, these are signs that you and your counselor can help you with self-discovery, happiness, and finding a better work environment. We can help you in creating the career and family life you want.
In counseling, our team of creative therapists can help you manage your anxiety, and feel confident gaining panic attack coping skills. Often times, children and adults with anxiety resort to negative behaviors in an effort to cope cope.
Counseling for anxiety supports relaxation, anxiety coping tools, and confident decision making skills.
Wisdom Within Counseling offers art, yoga, music, and animals therapies for overcoming anxiety.
Walk and talk by the beach in Niantic, Connecticut
Maybe, you sit all day and you want an outdoor walk-and-talk session by the beach, smelling the salty air, and some movement, by the Niantic Bay Boardwalk. You can walk to the park or to the beach with your therapist to move anxiety and relieve depression. Also, walking therapy supports lifelong coping tools for mental wellness. From walking in therapy, you can cope with anxiety using self-care. You and your therapist meet at the office and go along the walking loop, ending back at the office. For instance, you can pick a destination as one of our therapists walks with clients to the local record shop.
Yoga therapy for anxiety
To release anxiety, mindfulness guided meditation may be a goof fit for you. Overall, holistic anxiety counseling teaches you how to handle anxiety when it comes. So, through yoga therapy, you can take back power over anxiety. You can pick from mindfulness meditation, yoga poses, and calming breathing skills. As well, you may sit on the floor and do some gentle movement to connect mind and body. In addition, your therapist can guide you in learning positive affirmations. Overall, yoga helps you develop confidence and clarity. In holistic anxiety counseling, yoga therapies to release anxiety that lives in your body and mind.
Traditional talk therapy for anxiety
You can come to our office, sit on a couch, have a conversation, get positive feedback and emotional support. Overall, this is a more transitional form of anxiety counseling. For some, talking is very easy. In these cases, talk therapy for anxiety works great. When talking is difficult, we offer creative, holistic, alternatives for coping with anxiety. Your anxiety therapist will offer nurturing energy. As well, your therapist will provide you creative coping tools for overcoming anxiety, and tools for confidence.
Play therapy for anxiety
Play therapy is the language of the child, who can’t verbalize their experiences like an adult can. Often, we work with children 3 years old and up. Child-centered play therapy offers puppets, legos, toy cars, toy people, musical instruments, play dough. Essentially, play therapy provide skills for emotional identification and coping tools. Read more about child and teen therapy on our child and teen page.
Drama therapy for anxiety
Have you enjoyed drama club, musical theater, or storytelling? In drama therapy, your counselor may use short skits, acting, and laughter to help you step out of a survival mindset and into a playful mindset. We tend to get stuck in fear after trauma. As adults, we get stuck in routine patterns and what we call survival mind. Perhaps, you have anxiety about what to say to a friend. You can role play friendship scenarios. Overall, drama therapy helps build your adventure mindset that you may have often left behind in childhood. As well, with anxiety, it is hard to be present in the moment. So, drama therapy is great for learning to live fully in the moment. For instance, if you are worried, drama therapy can promote positive life changes by playfully exploring alternative roles.
Music therapy in anxiety counseling
In each office, we have a variety of instruments to choose from to provide a language beyond words. Your therapist may offer you music to help you unload or access, or you can reach for an instrument and play creatively. We have wooden and steel tongue drums, mahogany djembes, clappers, metal triangle, shakers, and a guitar to support emotional expression through the power of sound. For instance, your anxiety therapist may ask you what fear, anxiety or worry sounds like. Or, ask you to mirror a sound back. To release feelings like anxiety, anger, and loss through music, your therapist may invite you to play a singing bowl that can help clear energetic centers while helping you feel powerful, strong, and confident.
Art therapies for anxiety for all ages
We have an art closet with materials to choose from for expressing emotions beyond words. Using clay helps release intense feelings, lowers anxiety, promotes creativity, and teaches resilience. For instance, no matter your age, art can be great for releasing anxiety and panic. So, you can draw with glitter gel pens, paint, or do a tye dye shirt. You can make a bracelet, do beading, or a craft. When experiencing anxiety, panic attacks, or worry, creating and making art provides hope.
Talking about anxiety may only go so far.
So, doing art about what anxiety feels like can provide freedom in expression expression. You can paint or draw while talking or if you don’t want to talk at all, and need silence, our therapists can help you communicate without words. The art is up to you, and a tool for releasing beyond just words. For instance, one of our therapists is making a fairy house with her client. As well, another is making figures with clay and vision boards.
Where are anxiety counseling sessions?
We offer in person anxiety counseling and online counseling for anxiety. In general, online counseling is available over video sessions. Additionally, if you need relationship counseling, your partner can call in from any location worldwide.
We offer in person and video counseling to Connecticut towns including Fairfield, Cos Cob, Darien, Colebrook, Woodbridge, Old Greenwich, Rye, Watertown, Greenwich, Southport, Cornwall, Easton, Darien, Byram, New Canann, Essex, Weston, Barkhamsted, Fenwick, Hamburg, East Haddam, Norwalk, East Lyme, Simsbury, Westport, Redding, Greenwich, Middletown, Bloomfield, Stamford, Washington, Madison, Monroe, Glastonbury, Ivoryton, Washington, Danbury, New Haven, Bethlehem, Morris, Middlebury, Sharon, Kent, West Hartford, Colchester, Columbia, Milford, New Milford, Griswold, Guilford, Tolland, Stonington, Goshen, Salisbury, Killingworth, Bloomfield, Rye, Plymouth, Enfield, Lyme, Madison, Clinton, Litchfield, Warren, Avon, Wilton, Bridgewater, Chester, Deep River, Hartford, Colchester, Old Lyme, Deep River, Mystic, Ridgefield, Shelton, and West Hartford. We also offer counseling to residents of Massachusetts and Florida.
