Anxiety Counseling
Hope and Help for Managing Anxiety
All of the clinicians at Sage are trained in providing effective treatment for anxiety. We believe in helping you find the treatment approach that works best for your unique needs. By working with one of our therapists, either individually or as a couple or family, you can find ways to manage anxiety and fully engage in your life.
It can be helpful to think of treating anxiety from two directions: “top-down” (learning awareness and management of thoughts that contribute to anxiety), and “bottom-up” (working with your body to help you calm anxiety and tolerate stress in healthy ways). Mindfulness-based therapies such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), or Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) can help you learn skills to manage physical experiences connected with anxiety, as well as “unhook” from anxious thought patterns. Other therapeutic approaches, such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focus primarily on helping you identify and restructure thinking patterns and behaviors that exacerbate anxiety. In addition, couples and family therapy can help you understand how relationship dynamics contribute to and are influenced by anxiety, and then find ways to change those dynamics. Your therapist will work with you to find the approach that best fits your needs, personality, and experiences.