Denver Anxiety Therapist
Anxiety therapy helps you understand why anxiety takes hold — and gives you evidence-based tools to change it. Our Denver therapists use CBT, ACT, and mindfulness-based approaches to help you think differently, feel calmer, and live more fully. Serving clients in Denver, Greenwood Village, Lone Tree, Arvada, and throughout Colorado via telehealth.
Overcome anxiety through therapy
Is anxiety holding you back from living life the way you want to? Do you constantly find yourself worrying about the future, plagued by intrusive thoughts that disrupt your peace of mind? You’re not alone — anxiety disorders are the most common mental health condition in the United States, affecting over 40 million adults.
At My Denver Therapy, our licensed therapists specialize in anxiety treatment across all four of our Front Range locations: Denver, Greenwood Village, Lone Tree, and Arvada. We also offer telehealth therapy throughout Colorado for those who prefer to meet online.
Whether you’re dealing with generalized anxiety, social anxiety, panic attacks, or health anxiety, we use proven, evidence-based approaches — including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and mindfulness-based techniques — to help you get lasting relief, not just short-term coping.
Benefits of
anxiety therapy
Healthy habits
Change negative thought patterns, replacing them with healthy, positive, and productive ones.
Practical coping skills
Learn how to cope with stress and day-to-day anxiety with skills that work with the way you think.
Awareness
Understand the root cause of issues so that you can move past what causes you anxiety.
Change thought patterns
Reduce the frequency and intensity of anxiety and fearful feelings.
Quality of life
Improve your everyday life in ways that positively affect yourself, your relationships, and how you go about things that you do every day.
Find an Anxiety Therapist in Denver
When you’re dealing with anxiety, the thought of finding a therapist can itself feel overwhelming. You might worry about whether you’re “bad enough” to need help, or feel unsure where to start. We understand — and we’ve made it as simple as possible.
My Denver Therapy has therapists available at four convenient Front Range locations: Denver, Greenwood Village, Lone Tree, and Arvada. Can’t make it in person? We offer secure telehealth sessions throughout Colorado. Our warm, experienced therapists will meet you where you are — no judgment, no pressure. Just practical, compassionate support that works.
Most clients begin to notice meaningful improvement within 8–12 sessions. We’ll work with you to find a pace and approach that fits your life.
Should I seek therapy if I have anxiety?
Yes — and the earlier, the better. Anxiety responds very well to treatment, and research consistently shows that evidence-based therapies like CBT can reduce anxiety symptoms significantly, often more effectively than medication alone.
You don’t need to be in crisis to benefit from anxiety therapy. If anxiety is affecting your sleep, relationships, work performance, or quality of life, that’s enough reason to reach out. Our Denver therapists can help you understand what’s driving your anxiety and give you practical tools to manage it — whether it’s everyday stress, panic attacks, or something you’ve struggled with for years.
Not sure if what you’re experiencing counts as anxiety? Many of our clients come in with that same question. We’ll help you figure it out together.
What are anxiety symptoms?
Anxiety can show up in many different ways. Some people feel it as constant worry they can’t turn off. Others experience physical symptoms — a racing heart, tight chest, or trouble sleeping. For others, anxiety drives avoidance: skipping social events, calling in sick, or putting off decisions indefinitely.
Here are some of the most common signs that anxiety may be affecting you:
- Problems sleeping, being able to relax, or control worrisome thoughts
- Difficulty concentrating or thinking about anything else due to recurring thoughts or worries
- Feeling nervous, tense, restless, physically or mentally weak, or tired.
- Constant research online or talking with friends or family about what’s worrying you.
- Having a sense of impending danger or panic, even before something happens
- Increased heart rate, chest pain or rapid breathing
- Depression, fatigue, or isolation
- Headaches or muscle tension
- Problems going to sleep or staying asleep
- Always asking “What if?” and anticipating negative scenarios, even when you know that they’re unlikely.
- Physical symptoms, including sweating or trembling
- Gastrointestinal (GI) problems related to stress
- A strong urge to avoid the types of things that cause anxiety, including social worry
- Relationship difficulties
- Eating disorders
Some people also experience a sudden surge of intense fear with multiple physical symptoms at once — a panic attack. These can feel terrifying, even like a heart attack, but they are not dangerous. With the right support, panic attacks are very treatable.
Common types of anxiety
Social anxiety
Social anxiety disorder involves an intense fear of judgment, embarrassment, or negative evaluation in social situations. It affects over 15 million adults in the United States, making it one of the most common anxiety disorders.
For people with social anxiety, everyday situations — meeting new people, speaking up at work, eating in public — can feel overwhelming or even impossible. The fear often extends to anticipating social events days or weeks ahead of time, and avoiding situations to prevent embarrassment. CBT and exposure-based therapy are highly effective for social anxiety and can dramatically improve quality of life.
Panic
Panic disorder is characterized by recurrent, unexpected panic attacks — sudden surges of intense fear that peak within minutes. These episodes can include a racing heart, shortness of breath, chest tightness, dizziness, and a fear of losing control or dying. They can occur without a clear trigger, which makes them especially distressing.
Between attacks, many people with panic disorder spend significant time worrying about when the next one will happen. This anticipatory anxiety can lead to avoidance behaviors that shrink a person’s world over time. The good news: panic disorder has one of the highest treatment success rates of any anxiety condition.
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) involves persistent, excessive worry about a wide range of everyday topics — work, health, finances, family, or even minor matters. Unlike normal stress, GAD worry feels difficult to control and is present more days than not.
Physical symptoms often accompany GAD: muscle tension, fatigue, headaches, irritability, and trouble sleeping. Many people with GAD have lived with these symptoms so long they assume it’s just their personality. It’s not — it’s a treatable condition, and CBT combined with ACT has strong evidence for helping people with GAD regain a sense of calm and control.
Hypochondria and illness anxiety
When someone has illness disorder, they excessively worry about having a medical illness or issue, even when they haven’t seen a doctor or been tested.
People with a serious illness anxiety often worry that they’re suffering from a life-threatening illness, constantly check for signs of illness, continuously search online for information to justify their perceived symptoms, and don’t feel at peace when they find out that they don’t actually have a serious medical condition.
How to treat anxiety with therapy
For most anxiety disorders, therapy is the most effective long-term treatment — and often more effective than medication alone. At My Denver Therapy, our anxiety specialists use evidence-based approaches tailored to what’s driving your anxiety:
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) — The gold standard for anxiety. Helps you identify and reframe the thought patterns that fuel anxious feelings.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) — Teaches you to accept anxious thoughts without letting them control your behavior.
- Exposure Therapy — Gradual, supported exposure to feared situations to reduce avoidance and build confidence.
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) — Evidence-backed techniques to calm your nervous system and stay grounded in the present.
Our therapists work collaboratively with you to match the right approach to your specific symptoms and goals. Therapy doesn’t just treat the surface symptoms — it helps you understand and address the underlying patterns that keep anxiety going.
We can provide psychiatric medication management
At My Denver Therapy, our in-house psychiatric nurse practitioner Shannon Keane (PMHNP-BC) can provide medication management and prescriptions to help treat behavior, mood, and mental health issues. As a board certified psychiatric nurse practitioner, Shannon is dual certified in family medicine and psychiatry, and she strives to provide patients with comprehensive strategies to improve and maintain their mental health.
By combining therapy with medication management within one therapy private practice, we’re able to provide a deeper level of support and an integrated approach to mental health for clients who have depression, anxiety, ADHD, bipolar disorder, trauma, or are looking into Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. Instead of searching for a therapist and a psychiatrist in Denver separately, we can save you time and create an integrated plan for your mental wellness by offering both in our Denver area offices.
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Meet our therapists
As a therapist-owned practice, we care about helping you heal, grow, and thrive. We take a client-focused approach to counseling and approach each session with a commitment to your progress and growth.
Availability
We’re always accepting new clients at our conveniently located offices in Denver, Greenwood Village, Lone Tree, and Arvada. All of our therapists can meet with clients online.
We specialize in you
You are welcome here. Because we have a large team with a wide range of specialties and trainings, we work with clients of all ages, backgrounds, and life stages.
We can match you with a male or female therapist who matches your goals, location, and schedule. If you have a preference for gender, age, religious background, or a person with a specific type of training or life experience, we can match you with a therapist you feel comfortable with.
Trained in effective therapy modalities
To support your mental health journey, our team is trained in some of the most effective forms of therapy available today, including EMDR, Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, Brainspotting, CBT, DBT, and IFS.
Whether you’re looking for help with anxiety, depression, trauma, or want to better understand your relationship and attachment styles, we can help.
Insurance information
We’re out of network with insurance and Tricare and are unable to take Medicaid or Medicare.
Unlike many Denver therapy practices, we don’t charge separate intake or administration fees or charge more for your first session or specialized therapy methods like EMDR.
Get matched with a therapist
Contact us today, and one of our therapists will reach out to you directly, usually the same day.