Anxiety Treatment at Sojourner Counseling

Feeling stuck and being paralyzed by worry or anxiety can be debilitating in everyday life. It can be hard to find someone that truly understands and has the tools to help you move past where you are. You just want to live without anxiety keeping you or your child from living life fully. You want to find peace and want to overcome this struggle.

Is it stress, normal anxiety, or an anxiety disorder?

Life brings normal stress, and at times we all feel anxiety to some extent. So how do you know if it’s regular anxiety or if you or your child is struggling with an anxiety disorder? It can be helpful to know a few of the common anxiety disorder signs and symptoms that an anxiety therapist will help you identify as you start.

● Anxiety that interferes with getting everyday life ● On-going worry ● Physical sensations, such as shakiness, shallow breathing, feeling dizzy or faint, racing heart, stomach issues, etc. ● Feeling restless ● Feeling on edge and/or tense ● Difficulty concentrating ● Fatigue ● Sleep problems

This list isn’t exhaustive but these anxiety symptoms could point to a possible anxiety disorder, particularly if the anxiety is leading to avoidance of people, places, or things that trigger the anxiety.

What Can You Expect during Anxiety Therapy?

First, one of your therapists will meet with you to learn more about you or your child, history, and current struggles with anxiety. Our anxiety therapists like to gain a complete understanding of your or your child’s background to identify what may be contributing to the anxiety. Sometimes, we ask you or your child to complete a short questionnaire or screener, like when you go to the doctor’s office, to help us gain a better understanding, too. Then, after listening, we will recommend an approach that will be helpful for your or your child’s anxiety treatment. After this, you and/or your child will work together with your anxiety therapist to determine the best goals.

Together, you or your child and the anxiety counselor will work together to ease anxiety symptoms by increasing your or your child’s self-awareness of potential triggers and figuring out when to use relaxation or mindfulness skills. (We love this article about mindfulness practice.) Then, you’ll work to implement practical techniques to replace unhelpful beliefs and lies with biblical truths using cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques.

Begin Counseling for Anxiety Treatment in Raleigh NC

Sold on beginning your or your child’s healing and renewal through anxiety counseling?

Great, we’re ready to come alongside you or your child on this journey. You or your child can find relief from excessive worry, tenseness, sleep difficulties, concentration issues, and all the other parts of anxiety. Work with an anxiety therapist at our Garner, NC counseling clinic in Raleigh, NC or online.

Wondering about Other Counseling Services We Offer?

We are trained to work with various ages and different issues. Among anxiety treatment, we specialize in PTSD treatment and trauma therapy, Christian counseling, counseling for global workers, and child therapy.