Anxiety

As our world continues to struggle with pain, violence, and trauma, our team remains committed to helping our clients practice strategies for managing the impact of anxiety in their daily lives. 40 million adults suffer from anxiety symptoms. Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health concern in the U.S.* Every day more reputable research correlates the connection between physical ailments and anxiety disorders. The Family Resilience Group treats generalized, separation anxiety, school refusal, social problems, OCD, phobias and panic attacks.

We treat anxiety not only by working with your thoughts and relationships, learning skills and 
setting goals – the more traditional way. But we go further to include your biology and the way 
your body struggles.

Here are a few of the physical effects we often see (and treat) around anxiety:

• Shaking
• Nervous stomach/digestive problems
• Headaches
• Difficulty sleeping
• Difficulty making decisions/stuckness in life
• Exhaustion, muscle pain
• Panic attacks
• Crying in overwhelm
• Obsessive thoughts and impulses
• An anger with yourself, that you can’t control this . . . .

These symptoms can cause medical problems eventually, can rule our lives. We don’t think “mind over matter” works long term. When our body feels out of control, we feel out of control.

Medication may prove necessary with more debilitating anxiety, but we prefer to see first if skill building and mindful calming can affect a change in milder cases. And a note that Parent training is also essential in helping an anxious child or teen, as they have the power to increase or decrease a child’s reactions with their responses at home.

If traditional approaches to anxiety haven’t worked for you, maybe it’s not YOU that’s
flawed – you simply need a different approach.

*Statistics according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America