Anxiety Counseling
Have you been experiencing worry? Does mind feel like it in a constant loop of overthinking about fears and what-ifs? Are you having a difficult time focusing at work, at home, or in conversations? Has it been hard to shut off all the chatter in your brain which cause you to have trouble sleeping?
Anxiety for anyone can feel like a never-ending roller-coaster…and not the fun kind. Your thoughts, worries, and fears become the centerpiece of your life and everyday tasks feel daunting. Living in a state of anxiousness can feel chaotic, exhausting, and (let’s face it) scary! Symptoms of anxiety can look like many different things but common ones are restlessness, panic, nervousness, physically tense, sweating, racing thoughts, trouble sleeping, rapid heart rate, trouble focusing or thinking clearly, hyperventilation, and feeling a sense of unavoidable dread. All these feelings that you may experience that are associated with your anxiety can cause you to feel shame, worthless, inadequate, or incompetent.
The more you beat yourself of the more intense the anxiety gets. The extreme critical self-talk increases the worry and creates a feelings of isolation because you feel no one can possibly understand what you are going through.
Anxiety Therapy for Adults
Adults With Anxiety
Signs You Are Experiencing Anxiety:
Racing Thoughts
Excessive Worrying
Tendency to avoid people or places that make you nervous
Easily irritatied
Trouble falling or staying asleep
Emotional attacks of panic or anxiety
Fears that may be irrational
Muscle Tension/ Headache/Trouble Breathing/Heart Racing
Finding it Difficult to Focusing
Having a sense of looming doom, panic, or danger
Many people feel anxiety at some point or another. Life changes, stressful events, and relationships can cause anyone to feel anxious. Anxiety needs to be addressed when it starts to get in the way of your everyday living. Have you noticed that you isolate yourself more, having excessive thoughts about unpleasant encounters or experiences?
Are you thoughts full of self-doubt and you blow up small problems? Your anxiety make you irritable, scared, or on edge and affects your productivity, relationships, and self-esteem. It has interfered with how you function and how you interact with family, friends, partner, or spouse. Anxiety disorders can be plagued with intense panic, feelings of fear or dread, and it can be quickly triggered.
IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH ME?
Anxiety is normal. We all go through events in life that create stress, frustration, or fear. Have you experience financial or job loss, divorce, unexpected changes in your relationship or conflict with family or friends? All these experiences can trigger anxiety.
Coparenting With Anxiety
Conflict , Anxiety, & Coparenting
Since you have begun your coparenting journey, have you felt anxiety when interacting with your ex? You may not feel like your normal self or those interactions with your ex bring out the worse in you. It is always the goal for each parent to communicate in a healthy way and figure out out to resolve conflicts; this can be difficult if your anxiety prevents you from engaging in a healthy way.
Anxious Coparenting Looks like:
Sense of anxiousness when facing your ex or other coparent
Your emotions feel OUT OF CONTROL. It affects your actions and how you communicate.
You may feel hopeless, alone or isolated, and drained
Your anxiety may feel paralyzing and create anger and frustration due to being triggered in your coparenting relationship
You may be comparing your parenting to your ex and feel inadequate.
You can’t turn off the worrying thoughts
Anxiety Within My Relationships
Relationship anxiety is common with new and established relationships. Many people have experienced insecurity about their relationship and how their partner feels about them. It can become problematic if you start to change in a way that is not authentic to who you are. Your anxiousness about the status of your relationship can create doubt, irrational thinking, and fears that can damage the connection that you have with your partner.
You love being with this person and they seem to be just as into you but you can’t shake the feeling that they will bounce if someone better comes along. You text them all the time throughout the day but they don’t always respond right away.
You love when you cuddle or are intimate with each other but your partner is slow to initiate physical contact.
Are these things normal? YES! Does this show up in other relationships? YES!
This can become an issue if your life, thoughts, and actions are consumed by your worries regarding your relationship.
A healthy relationship should make you feel loved, happy, supported, and secure. Everyone wants their relationships to be rainbows and unicorns at all time. But in general we know that things happen and our relationships will be affected. When you fixate on the times it’s not all cupcakes and sunshine the fear of not having a perfect relationship and be paralyzing.
Have you become fixated on:
issues in the relationship but avoid communicating your concerns
worrying a lot about things that have never happened but you fear them happening
When you don’t address your concerns in a constructive way and your anxiety continues to create fears and doubts it can cause you to sabotage the relationship. You pick fights because of insecurity, you deny your partner affection or connection, you deny your true feelings and say “nothing is wrong”. Testing your partner to see if they “truly love you” can create more insecurity and anxiety because you may constantly use this tactic to feel secure.
Are My Partner’s Feelings for Me Real?
Signs of Relationship Anxiety
Have you been concerned about how your partner feels about you, their level of support, or if you even matter to them? Have these thoughts become excessive and have caused you to treat your partner differently or caused you to act out? Do you feel anxious about the relationship but your partner has not given you reason to panic?
Do you worry about:
your partner not being there for you
that they don’t miss or think about you when you’re not around
them being with you for the wrong reasons or just being there to see what they can get from you
Not sure how to deal with your relationship anxiety?
Take inventory of your feelings and actions. Are they helping you be your best self? Are they harming or damaging the relationship. Is your anxiety through the roof and you can’t get a handle on it. Are you and your partner pushing away from each other? Contact me to get your anxiety under control. Let’s improve your self-confidence, communication, and set reachable goals that will address insecurity and fear regarding your relationship.
Online Support Groups for Anxiety
Anxiety shows up and makes us scared and uncomfortable. It happens to everyone at some point and is a normal occurence. It can become a problem when your anxiety negatively affects your thinking, behaviors, normal routines, and relationships. Support groups offer an incredible form of support and help that provides insight, coping skills, companionship from people that know exactly how you feel and know exactly what you are going through. When you have that type of support from your peers you have a different type of growth and gain a different type of insight because you are not only learning and growing yourself but you are learning from and supporting others.
Empowered Transitions Counseling offers support groups for those dealing with anxiety that is triggered by life changes, parenting, breakups, and divorce recovery. If you think online group therapy is a good fit. Contact me.
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What are my next steps?
Begin Anxiety Counseling & Find the Clarity, Calm,& Boundaries You Need
With therapy you can begin to recognize, triggers, tackle unhealthy behaviors, get needed support through life changes, learn how to healthy set boundaries, lower overwhelming anxiety, and address debilitating depression, while developing a solid plan and having consistent support.
You don’t have to live your life with anxiety, extreme depression, worry, or impulsive behavior. I am here to help you gain perspective, coping skills, control negative self-talk, and have a better quality of life within yourself and your relationships.
You can send me an email or set up a free consultation.
To schedule an appointment for relationship counseling with Latisha Ellis in Georgia or Florida at call 770-294-4006.
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Other Online Mental Health Resources
I offer other services and mental health supports through my online counseling practice. In addition to anxiety counseling, I also offer couples counseling, coparent coaching, premarital counseling and other adult counseling services for adults. Many people clients also benefit from the support of a group. It helps to know you aren’t alone. Therefore, I also offer a variety of support groups including a group for breakup recovery, a women support group, coparenting group and a recovery from divorce for men as well as a divorce support group for women. Whatever your need is, I can help you learn to connect with others in a healthier way while getting you through what is holding you back from happiness. Please reach out and get the support you deserve.
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