Anxiety Therapy in
Oradell, NJ
Are Anxiety and Worry Taking Over Your Life?
- Do you have trouble falling asleep because your mind won’t shut down?
- Are you having trouble focusing on tasks?
- Do you find that no matter what you do to try to stop worrying you can’t?
- Are you irritable and easily annoyed?
- Are these symptoms interfering with your daily functioning?
Living with anxiety can feel exhausting. Maybe your mind races from one worry to the next, imagining worst-case scenarios or replaying conversations over and over. You might feel a tightness in your chest, a sense of dread, or physical symptoms such as nausea, shakiness, or difficulty breathing. Even when you try to relax, your nervous system may feel stuck in “high alert.”
You may feel frustrated that you “shouldn’t” be this anxious, or wonder why others seem to handle stress so easily. Anxiety can make you feel isolated, overwhelmed, and unsure of how to regain control.
But there is hope. With compassionate, evidence-based therapy, you can learn how to be calmer, challenge unhelpful thought patterns, and build confidence in managing the stressors in your life.
Anew Counseling Services has helped many people all over the Oradell, NJ area learn how to manage their anxiety symptoms and regain control of their lives. Whether your anxiety symptoms just started or have been here for years, you are not alone! I have treated so many others just like you and know all of the evidence-based treatments to help you!
I provide anxiety counseling both in-person at my Bergen County area office or virtually!
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Anxiety is Common and Highy Treatable
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) involves excessive, persistent worry about a wide range of everyday things including work, relationships, health, finances, or future events.
Some symptoms of anxiety include:
Constant overthinking or worst-case scenario thinking
Muscle tension, fatigue, or restlessness
Difficulty sleeping or concentrating
Feeling on edge or overwhelmed most of the time
Trouble relaxing, even when nothing is wrong
Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health concern in the United States.
- Each year, approximately 19.1% of U.S. adults experience an anxiety disorder, and 31.1% will experience one at some point in their lives. National Institute of Mental Health
- Globally, anxiety disorders are also among the most prevalent mental health conditions. In 2021, an estimated 359 million people worldwide lived with an anxiety disorder (about 4.4% of the global population). World Health Organization
There are many reasons anxiety can develop or intensify:
- Chronic stress
- Major life transitions
- Trauma or past adversity
- Family history or genetic predisposition
- Personality tendencies such as high sensitivity or perfectionism
- Ongoing uncertainty or high-pressure environments
At Anew Counseling Services, I use evidence-based techniques that are the best known to help get your anxiety under control.
Anxiety Can Be Overcome: Proven Strategies for Real Change
Mindfulness Based Techniques
Mindfulness techniques teach individuals to gently shift their attention away from worry and toward the present moment. Instead of getting pulled into “what-ifs” or racing thoughts, mindfulness helps people notice their feelings and physical sensations with curiosity rather than fear. Over time, this reduces the intensity of anxious reactions.
Through practices such as deep breathing, grounding exercises, and guided awareness, mindfulness activates the body’s natural calming response. For many people, mindfulness becomes a practical, everyday tool.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT helps identify unhelpful thoughts and beliefs and replace them with more balanced, realistic ways of thinking. You also learn behavior strategies that reinforce healthier patterns.
CBT teaches you to challenge distorted beliefs. For example, like overestimating danger or feeling overly responsible. As thoughts shift, compulsive behaviors often decrease because they feel less necessary.
CBT strengthens your ability to understand and change the relationship between your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. This gives you tools to manage OCD long-term.
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT teaches you to notice and accept intrusive thoughts and feelings without fighting them. Instead of trying to eliminate discomfort, you learn to make room for it and choose actions aligned with your values.
ACT reduces the struggle with intrusive thoughts by helping you see them as mental events opposed to threats. This lowers the urge to perform compulsions and increases flexibility in how you respond.
ACT helps you build a life guided by personal values rather than fear or avoidance. As your focus shifts toward meaningful action, OCD has less influence over your daily choices.
All of these modalities are known to help people who suffer from anxiety. In therapy, I blend all of three of these together throughout your journey to help you overcome your symptoms of anxiety and help you to live a calmer life with more clarity.
How Anxiety Therapy at Anew Counseling Services Can Help
What You Can Expect in Sessions
In our first session we will go over your entire history so I can get a full picture of you and your life. Then we will dive into your anxiety and talk about how it makes you feel, what triggers you, and how it is impacting your life. I will then create a treatment plan tailored for you and begin working on your goals together.
As therapy continues, you’ll learn strategies to calm yourself down, to challenge any irrational thoughts, to stay in the present, and handle stressful situations with greater ease. Many clients tell me they begin feeling relief early in therapy just from understanding the anxiety cycle and having tools they can use immediately.
Why This Approach Works
Many times we become anxious about the unknown and future situations. Our brains go to the worst, most catastrophic scenarios when we are anxious. Learning your triggers, identifying and challenging irrational thinking, learning to stay in the present, and letting go of control will help you to not only be prepared for anxiety but will make you ready to combat and shut it down!
Why Anew Counseling Services for Anxiety Therapy?
Out of everything I treat, anxiety is one of my favorites to work with.
I have extensive experience helping individuals with anxiety. I’ve seen clients make significant, life-changing progress. And it was not done by eliminating all stress, because let’s be honest, as much as we would love that, it is not possible. But by learning how to respond to stress and anxiety provoking situations in calmer, healthier ways, you will remain much calmer. With the right guidance, you can gain control over your anxiety instead of feeling controlled by it.
Common Questions About Anxiety Therapy
I am worried that if I have to talk about what worries me in therapy, it will make me worry even more.
I can completely understand why you would think this.. But actually it is quite the opposite. Talking about your worries in therapy can help you become calmer. When we are talking, I would be using techniques to help you reduce your anxiety on the topic that is causing you to worry.
I've been anxious for the majority of my life. Can therapy still help me now?
Yes! It can absolutely still help. Some people have had anxiety their entire life without having gone to therapy and are still successful in therapy.
How can you make me just stop worrying?
By using a combination of techniques. Relaxation techniques are used to put you in a calmer state. Cognitive challenging is used to help shift your perspective. Working on acceptance of uncontrollable situations also helps to reduce anxiety. This does not happen overnight, but in time, it can if you allow it to.
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Anxiety Therapy Oradell, NJ
617 Oradell Ave, Oradell, NJ 07649