For many professionals, anxiety feels like a necessary part of the work experience. This leaves you in quite a predicament! Spending all these hours under anxiety’s thumb has all manner of negative impacts on your emotional and physical wellbeing, not to mention on your work performance. And yet it often feels as if you can’t leave anxiety behind, or don’t know how to do so. Anxiety therapy can help tremendously.

Anxiety can leave you feeling emotionally depleted. Rather than experiencing the full expanse of emotion, you may feel constricted. Perhaps you feel numb; or that the emotion you feel moves in the realm of overwhelm, frustration, anger, and annoyance. It may seem that given your anxiety, the demands of your life are always too much.

People often come into therapy wanting to work on a particular source of anxiety. But as we go, other thoughts and feelings may also emerge. Exploring these can help us understand your anxiety in the context of who you are, of your life experiences current and past, your joys and sorrows, disappointments and dreams. This process can support alleviating your anxiety in deep and lasting ways.

We’re now more than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic. As the years have gone on, the anxiety that people feel has often taken on new forms. When the pandemic hit, many felt thrown abruptly into an alien experience: germs, sickness, unknown dangers, the loss of regular contact with friends and loved ones, financial worries.