Denver Anxiety Therapist
Change the way you think. Transform how you feel with anxiety therap.
We’re here to help you overcome anxiety
Anxiety in some form is part of all of our lives. In fact, almost 20% of adults in the United States experience anxiety. However, people with intense anxiety frequently have excessive and persistent worry and fear about everyday situations, which can have wide-reaching negative impacts on their lives. It can affect men and women of all ages, and our therapists have helped thousands of people with anxiety in our Denver, Lone Tree, and Greenwood Village offices.
When anxiety is chronic, it feels like nothing can make it go away. You can feel lost, alone, and even helpless. For some, anxiety can lead to depression and feeling overwhelmed. This can cause repeated episodes of sudden feelings of intense anxiety, fear, and even panic attacks. When anxiety gets out of control, it can leave you feeling hopeless. The good news is that study after study has proven that therapy helps people with anxiety, using highly effective methods like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
If anxiety is part of your life and you’re ready to change that, our Denveranxiety therapists can help you build healthy habits, learn practical skills, understand what’s causing your anxiety, change how you think about anxiety, and ultimately improve your quality of life.
Our trained anxiety therapists in Denver, Lone Tree, and Greenwood Village are here to transform your experience with anxiety in ways that can have a positive, even life-changing impact on your everyday life.
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 a Denver anxiety therapist
When you’re suffering from anxiety, even the thought of looking for a therapist can seem overwhelming. You might feel tired, scared, or intimidated to find a therapist, make an appointment, and share what you’re going through. You might spend time searching for a Denver anxiety therapist, but something stopped you from following through.
We’re here to make therapy less intimidating. We meet you where you are and approach every conversation with you with understanding. We’re not here to judge. We’re here to listen and help. By having someone by your side who understands what you’re going through to help you find your way out, it can dramatically change or even eliminate your levels of anxiety.
Studies have shown that therapy can help tremendously with anxiety, even when people have borderline personality disorder, and has been proven to be extremely effective with all kinds of people. Whether anxiety causes you to have panic attacks, intense worries, obsessive compulsive behaviors, or be fearful of a specific part of your life, it’s important to understand that you can move on from your anxiety.
Anxiety can affect people in many different ways. It can appear through a fear of public speaking, discomfort at casual gatherings or events, or even a general fear that people might be talking about you. It can be extremely disruptive to everyday life and be difficult to control if left untreated.
For people with anxiety, negative ways of thinking can lead to emotions of fear that lead to anxiety. Through therapy, you can identify and correct negative thoughts and beliefs. By changing the way you think, it can transform the way you feel.
Should I seek therapy if I have anxiety?
Finding a therapist for anxiety in Denver can be a helpful step in regaining control over your mental health. It’s important to seek therapy as soon as you notice symptoms of anxiety, such as excessive worry or panic attacks. A licensed therapist can provide evidence-based treatments like cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) to help you manage your anxiety and improve your quality of life. Consider reaching out to one of our trusted therapists in Denver to start your journey towards improving your mental health.
Anxiety disorders can often manifest themselves in recurring, continuous episodes of uncontrolled fear and panic. There’s no way to predict what can cause people to develop an anxiety disorder, but there are ways to treat them.
Symptoms of anxiety
Anxiety can come in many forms, such as general anxiety, PTSD, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), panic attacks, social anxiety, illness anxiety, and more. If you’re wondering if you’re experiencing anxiety issues, here are some common symptoms of anxiety.
Your anxiety might keep you up at night. You might feel nervous, and your confidence could be shaken because you’re unable to think about anything else. When you try and relax, the thoughts continue, leaving you feeling trapped.Anxiety can hurt a person’s ability to feel like themselves or function at work, school, and even with friends.
Anxiety can also damage a person’s relationships with friends, family, and others close to them. When you’re looking for a Denver anxiety therapist, it’s important to seek anxiety counseling with a therapist like our experienced ones at My Denver Therapy.
- 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 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 anxiety
You might also experience a sudden onset of multiple symptoms, which can result in a panic attack.
Common types of anxiety
Social anxiety disorder
People with social anxiety disorder or social phobia have an intense fear of judgment, embarrassment, or social situations. It affects over 10 million adults in the United States.
When the fear is strong, it can be very difficult people to go about their everyday lives and interact with others at work, school, and social settings. Sometimes, people with social anxiety disorder worry about social situations, or things like public speaking, for weeks before they happen.
Panic disorder
This can cause severe panic attacks or fear, even when there isn’t a a clear cause of it. While some people temporarily experience panic during stressful times in their lives, this can also be caused by larger issues that might need help to prevent panic attacks from happening again.
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)
Generalized anxiety disorder can affect people in many different ways, including feeling irritable, obsessive thoughts, fatigue, feeling like it’s hard to concentrate, and difficulty falling or staying asleep. Physically, people can also experience feelings of tension, muscle weakness, or shaking out of fear or stress.
Many people feel anxiety about things that haven’t happened yet, like job interviews, life changes, or even financial decisions. Other people experience anxiety without a particular cause, which might have a disproportionate effect on someone’s life compared to the impact it actually will have.
Hypochondria and illness anxiety
When someone has illness anxiety disorder, they excessively worry about having a medical illness or issue, even when they haven’t seen a doctor or been tested.
People with illness anxiety disorder 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 an illness.
Treating Anxiety
For many anxiety problems, therapy is often the most effective option. At our offices in South Denver or through online sessions, we can help you identify and change the thoughts and behaviors that are creating or adding to your feelings of anxiety. We help you work through, instead of avoid your anxiety.
Anxiety therapy treats more than just the symptoms of the problem; it can help you uncover what’s causing your anxiety and stress. Through therapy, we help you learn strategies to help you regain peace, awareness, and control over your feelings. We help you develop relaxation techniques, develop coping skills, and see the world and situations in a different way. With therapy, we provide you with the tools to move forward from your exit and help you practice using them.
To regain peace and feel fully like yourself and feel normal again, it’s important to work with a therapist to develop skills that can help you move on from your anxiety. According to the American Psychological Association, many people who see a therapist for anxiety improve significantly within 8 to 10 therapy sessions.
We use a variety of different therapy treatment techniques and tailor them to our clients. Replacing negative thoughts with more new ones can take time. Some clients experience anxiety due to pattern of thinking that they’ve had their whole lives, and they might need more time to break out from the way they’ve thought for decades.
Therapy methods can be used alone, or combined with other methods. Whatever method we use in your treatment, our goal is to help you calm your thoughts, lower feelings of anxiety, and conquer your fears. We are here to help you break free and move forward with a life that is no longer limited by fear and anxiety.
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 Denver therapists
My Denver Therapy is one of the largest woman-owned therapy private practices in Colorado with many of the best, most requested therapists in Denver.
As a therapist-owned practice with decades of combined experience, we care about seeing our clients heal, grow, and thrive. We’re one of the only therapy practices in Colorado with licensed professional counselors, marriage and family therapists, addiction counselors, social workers, and psychiatric nurse practitioners who actively see new clients. Whether you’re an adult, teen, young adult, couple, or family, our inclusive therapist team is built to specialize in you.
Our practice started with one therapist in a shared office suite, but we’ve grown to help thousands of people in Colorado by providing in-person therapy at our conveniently located Denver Metro area counseling offices in Denver, Greenwood Village, and Lone Tree, plus online therapy for clients throughout Colorado. Because of the way our team works, our therapists provide consultation for other therapists and private practices in the Denver Metro area.
Our inclusive therapists provide some of the most innovative, effective, and in-demand forms of therapy available today, including EMDR, Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, CBT, and IFS. We also have more therapists trained in Ketamine-assisted therapy and more teen therapists and young adult counselors than nearly every other private practice in Denver.
We know that clients want to find the best therapists in Denver, so our team includes therapists with different backgrounds, specialities, and experiences to help you find the right fit. We’ll match you with one of our therapists who is the best for your goals, location, budget, and schedule to help you get started quickly.
We’re out of network for insurance, Tricare, and are unable to take Medicaid, but most of our therapists’ rates are lower than the local and national averages for therapy.
All of our therapists take a client-focused approach to counseling and approach each session with a commitment to your progress and growth.
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