Serving Denver, CO &
43 States online
Anxiety Therapy in Denver
Why Seek Therapy for Anxiety?
Anxiety can feel like it’s driving the bus and dictating what you can and can’t do. Sometimes anxiety might tell you to avoid something completely. Other times, you may follow through with your plans, but anxiety steals your attention. When this happens, it can feel like you’re only partially present, because you’re so focused on your anxiety.
Anxiety also tends to perpetuate itself. Although avoiding something in the short-term might make you feel better, this typically increases anxiety in the long-run. There may be some things in your life where this doesn’t matter, because they’re not important to you. For things that you value though - avoiding them can be devastating. For example, you might value close friendships and relationships, but feel nervous and anxious around other people out of fear you’ll be judged in some way, so you avoid social gatherings that involve new people or larger groups.
Working with an anxiety therapist can help break those unhelpful patterns and put you back in the drivers seat.
You may benefit from seeing an anxiety therapist if you experience:
Worry or dread that won’t let up
Difficulty focusing
Restlessness
Muscle tension and headaches
Difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep
Avoiding people or places
Racing heart, shortness of breath, and feeling like you may lose control
Irritability
Fear of judgment from others
Types of Anxiety Treated
Adjustment-Related Anxiety
Anxiety often occurs when you’re experiencing a major change in your life or a stressful situation. For example, moving to a new city, changing jobs, becoming a parent can all lead to anxiety. When the anxiety due to the life change or stressful event feels difficult to manage and cope with, and is interfering with your life, therapy with an anxiety therapist can help.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Generalized anxiety includes anxiety and worry happening more often than not over the course of at least 6 months. The worry is difficult to control, and is related to additional symptoms like: feeling restless, feeling fatigued, having difficulty focusing, irritability, muscle tension, and trouble sleeping. An znxiety therapist can help you with managing the worry.
Social Anxiety Disorder
Social anxiety is anxiety that is related to a fear of being judged. For some people, this anxiety is only related to one type of interaction (e.g., public speaking). For other people, the social anxiety is generalized to many types of social interactions. With this type of anxiety, you may avoid the social interactions that cause you anxiety completely, or you may endure them, but with significant distress. An anxiety therapist can help you with getting back to the things you want and need to be doing.
My treatment approach as an anxiety therapist
Research has shown that therapy is very effective for treating anxiety. As an anxiety therapist, I typically use a blended approach of:
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
These treatments can help you to get some distance from worry thoughts, clarify what’s important to you, and ensure that you (and not your anxiety!) are driving the bus towards things that are important to you. These treatments are also designed to help you make lasting change.
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Free 15-Minute Consultation
We'll talk briefly about what you're experiencing and whether working together feels like a good fit. No pressure, no commitment.
What to expect
How anxiety therapy works
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Comprehensive First Session
In your first full appointment, we'll explore your anxiety in depth. We’ll explore when it started, how it shows up, what makes it better or worse, and what you most want to change.
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Sessions & Skill Building
Each session is tailored to give you time to process how you’ve been feeling while also building practical tools you can use between appointments. Most people begin to notice meaningful change within the first several weeks.
Mindful Health Psychology provides mindful, compassionate anxiety therapy for people in Denver, Colorado &
43 additional States online
Other services offered at Mindful Health Psychology:
Mindful Health Psychology is a practice offering in-person and online therapy for Denver, CO. Mindful Health Psychology is also able to provide online therapy to most other states (see FAQs for details on specific states served). We specialize in therapy for depression, distress during pregnancy, postpartum depression and postpartum anxiety, coping with miscarriage and pregnancy loss, PMDD, coping with fertility-related stressors, birth trauma, coping with a chronic medical condition, insomnia, nightmares, circadian rhythm disorders, and hypersomnia disorders. We provide online therapy, making treatment more accessible, which means you can be located in Denver, Chicago, Miami, Princeton, Seattle, and beyond!
References
American Psychiatric Association. Anxiety disorders. In Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed., text rev.). 2022:171-175.