Anxiety Treatment Center

What is Anxiety?

Anxiety is a natural response of the body when it feels stress. It is a feeling of unease or nervousness and may be triggered by going on a date, having an exam, or seeing your family members. All of these may cause many people to feel fearful and apprehensive. Additionally, anxiety may coincide with PTSD or depression.

What are the Symptoms of Anxiety?

Oftentimes, many people may experience anxiety disorder without knowing it. Common symptoms are:

• Faster heart rate
• Inability to stay still
• Quicker, sometimes uncontrollable breathing
• Difficulty paying attention or concentrating
• Troubles falling asleep
• Fatigue
• Irrational anger
• Social phobia
• Overthinking situations
• Nausea 
• Panic attacks
• Chest pain

If you have experienced any of these side effects or risk factors, we advise treatment by an experienced anxiety therapist or consulting with a medical professional about your symptoms.

Causes of Anxiety

There are many events that could cause someone to feel anxious. Some causes include:

• Overloaded at work
• Falling behind in school
• Love, personal relationships
• Separation anxiety
• Financial issues
• Emotional trauma
• Stress from other medical conditions
• Side-effects from certain medications
• Drugs
• Pre-existing mental illnesses
• Past traumatic events
• Depression 

All of these are factors that may contribute to raising a person’s level of anxiety. Keep in mind that there are many different types of anxiety disorders, each of which are triggered by different causes.

What Are The Different Types Of Anxiety?

Recognizing the specific type of anxiety you have is an essential part of learning how you can appropriately treat it. Some of the most common forms are:

• Anxiety caused a medical condition– This occurs when a physical health issue is the cause of the Anxiety.
• Social anxiety disorder or social phobia)– This is an anxiety that is caused by a fear of social interactions out of a fear that that they will result in embarrassment.
• Generalized anxiety disorder– This happens when a person has a consistent fear of a wide variety of different everyday life events such as work, family interaction, or finances.
• Specific phobias- These are triggered by specific events that have happened in an individual’s life that create a fear of something happening that reminds them of said event.
• Panic disorder- Panic disorders are caused by extreme stress, such as a death in the family, a major financial loss, or being laid off. 
• Agoraphobia anxiety- This is caused by a fear of being in places or situations that create feelings of being entrapment or embarrassment.
• Selective mutism- This disorder starts in early childhood development when they have a persistent inability to speak in specific situations, having an impact in both school and family life.
• Separation anxiety- This disorder typically develops following a traumatic event in a child’s life, such as a big move, or a loss of a parent. It is characterized by an inability to cope with loss or change.
• Substance-induced anxiety disorder- A disorder that occurs when substances such as drugs, medication, or alcohol are abused .

Treating an Anxiety Disorder

The first step to treating an anxiety disorder is to find help. We understand that everyone is different, which is why we offer specialized treatment to all of our patients. This ensures that individuals who come to us in search of help are assisted in the best way possible. Different ways we may help treat your anxiety include:

Private Anxiety Treatment

Each of the Highland Springs private clinics follows a mind/body/spirit perspective in our treatment protocol where we actively involve the client throughout the entire course of counseling for anxiety disorder. The anxiety treatment protocol is highly interactive, so communication between a client and their therapist, as well as some homework, is required in between counseling sessions.

The therapists at our anxiety treatment centers administer a treatment combination of medication, psychotherapy, and cognitive behavioral therapy for people with anxiety disorders. This consists of meditation, relaxation therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy. Counseling at Highland Springs is highly effective as a result of incorporating all three practices.

EMDR Therapy for Anxiety Treatment

EMDR is a form of psychotherapy that has been proven to be highly effective for a variety of anxiety disorders. Our anxiety treatment specialists therapists have found success in applying EMDR Therapy to the treatment protocol for anxiety counseling.  A therapist guides their client with a bar of light that pulses based on the client’s own rapid, rhythmic eye movement.  This has been shown to help clients uncover and process past traumatic events, so they can begin the treatment process.

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Avoiding Substance Use

A dependency on substances can be dangerous as it can greatly harm a person’s physical, mental, and emotional health. An individual’s surroundings, psychological well being, and anxiety levels are major factors in causing a dependency, and will often worsen the state of these areas. Many people are able to recognize that they suffer from this condition but struggle to stop, as it is a difficult challenge to overcome. It is a condition that can affect anyone and no one should feel ashamed or embarrassed to have. Highland Springs is here to help heal as we believe that no one should have to go through it alone.

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Telehealth Services for your Anxiety

Highland Springs Anxiety Clinic recognized the great importance of remote therapy in these unprecedented times. That is why we are offering outpatients behavioral health treatments and programs, so we can provide our services while adhering to suggestions and regulations set by the CDC. We will assist you in healing from anxiety disorder using the state-of-the-art technology that allows us to get you the treatment you need no matter where you are- providing video sessions and improving outcomes through Telehealth therapy. Additionally, we offer medication delivery through our ValleyRX program. Reaching every client with the medication they need for their mental health through these difficult times.