Plan for Reducing Anxiety

Center for Growth / Anxiety Treatment

Developing a plan of action for reducing anxiety. One of the best ways for reducing anxiety is to be prepared for the sensation of anxiety. To be prepared, you should have a ‘plan of action’ for what you will do when you experience your next wave of anxiety. Even ‘healthy’ people experience frequent bouts of anxiety. Anxiety is an important mechanism in life that helps stay focused, get things accomplished and motivates you. A little bit of anxiety causes one to experience just enough worry to make you want to do something about it. Too much anxiety is overwhelming and causes people to shut down. Thus, creating a plan for reducing anxiety helps you stay in control. The goal - manage your anxiety before it manages you.

Your plan of action for reducing anxiety should include the following:

• An outline of when you are most likely to experience anxiety
• Practice things you can tell yourself when you do experience anxiety. For example, if you get anxious in new settings because you are unsure of how others might view you, try reminding yourself that they are just as concerned as you are on making a good first impression. Furthermore, if they do not like you, you can always leave.
• Create some activities that you can focus on and/or participate in, especially when you sense the anxiety is coming on.
• Give yourself permission to take 5 minutes to collect your thoughts.
• Identify a safe person to tell when you are having an anxiety attack.
• Carry a journal around with you so that you can record your feelings about the anxiety. Often writing down your thoughts is enough for you to actually hear yourself and then play therapist to self, include the results from your medical exam with your primary care doctor that concluded that there is nothing physically wrong with you, the ‘anxiety is all in your head’. Thus, the next time you are experiencing anxiety, remind yourself “I am fine. There is nothing wrong with me. The anxiety will pass in a few minutes”.

Reducing Anxiety - Still struggling? Schedule an appointment with a counselor 267 324 9564 Center for Growth / Anxiety Treatment

OUR GUARANTEE: you deserve the best therapist. If you don't feel like the therapist that you met with was the right fit, then free of charge you can try out a different therapist. Being in a group practices allows for flexibility.

The Center for Growth has offices in multiple states. We offer both in person as well as virtual mindfulness therapy appointments.

The Center for Growth Therapy Offices in PA, NJ, VA, RI, NM, CT

• Ocean City Therapy Office
  360 West Ave, Floor 1, Ocean City, NJ 08226
• Mechanicsville Therapy Office
  9044 Mann Drive, Mechanicsville Virginia, 23116
• Providence Therapy Office
  173 Waterman St. Providence, RI 02906
• Society Hill Therapy Office
  233 S. 6th Street, C-33, Philadelphia PA 19106
• Art Museum / Fairmount Therapy Office
  2401 Pennsylvania Ave, Suite 1a2, Philadelphia PA 19130
• Santa Fe Therapy Office, 2204 B Brothers Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87505
• Telemedicine: We have therapists who are licensed to work in Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Virginia.

Therapy Services Offered in Philadelphia, Ocean City, Mechanicsville, Providence, Santa Fe:

• Individual Counseling and therapy

• Couples Counseling and marriage counseling

• Teen Therapy and Adolescent Therapy and tweens and child counseling

• Family Therapy and multi-generational counseling

• Art Therapy and Counseling no art skills needed

• ADHD Therapy and ADD, Dyslexia, Autism, Tourettes counseling

• Anxiety, Panic, OCD Therapy and worry and fear support

• Breaking the cycle of Codependency and being your own person

• Overcoming Chronic Illness and Chronic Pain .

• Depression Therapy and sadness, gloom, and upset support

• Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) Therapy is a particular style of therapy designed for people with problems affecting their nervous system, how the brain and body send and receive signals.
• LGBTQIA+ / Queer Community Therapy Services

• Grief Therapy and loss, End of A Relationship, rejections, pregnancy and loss and therapy

• Mindfulness Based Therapy and spirituality based therapy

• Narcissistic Abuse Recovery child of, parent of, spouse of, sibling of a narcissist.

• Sex Therapy and sexual function & dysfunction, sex addiction, sexual orientation and gender identity support

• Shame and Blame

• Trauma Therapy both emotional and sexual abuse, complex trauma, PTSD counseling

• Divorce support

• Affairs, Infidelity, Unfaithful, Cheating counseling

• Parenting therapy Parenting therapy

• Personality disorder therapy Personality disorder treatments

• Anger Management Therapy anger therapy

• Setting Boundaries and identifying ones own Core Beliefs

• Just name some of the Mental Health issues that we work with. Our goal is to help you Change and Achieve Your Dreams