Find CALM with anxiety therapy in COLORADO

ARE YOU FEELING STRESSED OUT, ANXIOUS, OR OVERWHELMED?

Raise your hand if…

You find yourself over-thinking, worrying often, feeling like your mind is all over the place
You consistently struggle to lower stress or manage the pressures in your life
You’ve wondered if your nervousness and stress are “normal”

It’s one thing to have an anxious moment or stressful day, but it becomes more challenging when these ways of thinking and relating to the world build up and impact our day-to-day life more and more.

Maybe you’re a driven individual who has worked hard towards your goals yet rarely feels happy. Or maybe you feel like you can never work hard enough to reach your personal or professional goals, or you don’t even remember your goals anymore because you’re spending so much time trying to outrun your stress, that you’re just too busy to even think about it. If you find yourself thinking in all-or-nothing terms, feeling stuck in indecision or uncertainty, your stress or anxiety may be playing a bigger role in your life than is helpful.

Maybe you tend to say “yes” to requests for help at school, work, or home even when you know you are at capacity and want to say “no”. Maybe you say “yes” because you worry about what others will think of you if you don’t help out. Maybe you also find yourself spending too much time focused on what other people want you to do instead of what you care about. Our therapists in Colorado at Rooted Counseling can help!

Do you…

Struggle to focus
Avoid people or situations out of discomfort
Doubt yourself often
Experience negative self-talk / have a strong inner critic
Feel panicky or have panic attacks
Feel high tension most days
Overreact and feel dissatisfied with relationships and yourself

If so, you may find yourself feeling tired and worn out often as you try to balance and juggle more than you can handle - not because you’re incapable, but because you’re a human, not a robot.

HOW ANXIETY AND STRESS IMPACT US

Anxiety and stress can be common experiences in life, yet when they grow and begin to take over our lives, the impact can be huge.

Anxiety and stress can motivate us to pay attention during an important meeting, work harder at school or our job, ask someone out on a date, make the move to give the promotion presentation, or meet a deadline. Some anxiety and stress can be healthy for us. Too much anxiety and stress can lead to outcomes that aren’t healthy for us. These include frequent headaches, body aches or pains, increased doubts about ourselves or our abilities, and feeling more insecure or worried about what others are thinking about us.

The experiences of anxiety and stress can make the struggles in life feel heavier, more difficult to manage, and lead us to believing that something is “wrong” with us. Anxiety and stress can change how we carry ourselves in the world, how we pursue our goals, or even our work and school performance. It’s important to remember that feelings and experiences of anxiety and stress are a part of the human experience. They are things we feel and experience. They do not define us. They are not all of who we are, but rather they can become a part of us that takes over more than we want. We can help.

BUT IS MY ANXIETY NORMAL?

Anxiety is rampant. Our world is different now.

Whether it’s anxiety over a current situation, stress or concerns about your future, panic attacks, tendencies towards perfectionism, anxiety that grew or started during the COVID pandemic, or even feelings of anxiety in social situations, we at Rooted Counseling in Colorado can help. Anxiety is one of the most common mental health concerns nationwide. It’s so common that anxiety has practically become accepted as “part of life”. You may feel spread thin by trying to balance your career, staying in touch with important relationships, caretaker responsibilities, health goals, family commitments, social and community offerings, and taking advantage of all that beautiful Colorado has to offer. Some may even think that because Colorado is so sunny and great, that something is wrong with you for feeling anxious or stressed here. Regardless of where you live in Colorado or where you moved from, anxiety and stress can happen to anyone. It’s real, and our trained therapists can be sure to provide you the support and skills you need to help you move forward with greater calm and peace.

HOW CAN ANXIETY TREATMENT AND STRESS MANAGEMENT IN COLORADO HELP ME?

Getting started with anxiety treatment won’t completely take the stress and anxiety out of your life. However, working with one of our skilled therapists at Rooted Counseling in Colorado can support you and teach you real-life ways to manage your stress. In time, anxiety treatment can help you identify and change situations that often raise your anxiety or stress. This can then improve the way you respond to stress and lower your stress response.

Many of us live life on autopilot, going through the motions of life and doing what we’re “used to”, even with how we manage or respond to the stress and anxiety in our lives. However, living life this way can lead to overreacting, assuming what others are thinking about us, and casting a negative light on how we’re interacting with others, even our loved ones. Many of our autopilot emotional responses come from our past experiences and things we learned along the way - even if some of those things weren’t entirely true or helpful. Oftentimes, we are reacting to something that is connected to a past feeling or past experience, something our mind has held onto. This is normal.

Our therapy practice in Colorado provides a variety of effective therapy modalities to help you identify this autopilot way of thinking and reacting when it happens and teach you practical and applicable tools to choose how you respond so that you can begin living your life with more emotional freedom. Modalities and evidence-based strategies that our licensed therapists incorporate include:

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Attachment-Based Therapy
Compassion-Focused and Culturally Sensitive
Experiential Therapy
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
Narrative Therapy
Person-Centered and Relational Therapy
Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
Strengths-Based
Trauma-Focused

During sessions, our trained therapists will guide you to learn and incorporate techniques to manage your thoughts, emotions, and impulses differently. We’ll also teach you how to approach these patterns with greater empowerment and support as you learn to be kinder towards yourself. You’ll learn to name your triggers and past experiences that may be connected to and initiating your anxiety and stress. You’ll practice real-life strategies and relaxation techniques to help yourself maintain a sense of calmness, even in stressful circumstances.

Treatment for anxiety and stress with Rooted Counseling in Colorado can also help you communicate more effectively and clearly with others and with yourself. You can learn to slow down your thinking bit by bit so that you gain skills to identify the source of your anxious or stressful thoughts, recognize thoughts that aren’t true about you and who you are, and make positive adjustments and changes so that lower self-esteem or anxious thoughts don’t continue to plague you. Many of the things we tell ourselves or believe about ourselves are harmful self-judgements or narratives from our past that we’ve accepted and believed to be true. And they are getting in our way and holding us back. Let’s work together to undo them.

With anxiety therapy through Rooted Counseling in Colorado, you’ll also learn ways to incorporate self-care culture into your day-to-day life, in big or small ways or something in between. Choosing which self-care sustaining practices you weave into your life and at what pace is something we’ll do together. With help from our trained therapists, these self-care practices can actually change how you respond to the stressors in your life instead of primarily reacting to them in ways that aren’t helpful to you or your values.

BUT WHAT ABOUT…

My anxiety helps me hold everything together. I don’t want to give it up.

Sometimes we may fear that reducing our anxiety will reduce our accomplishments or successes. Yes, it’s true that anxiety can be motivating and help us accomplish many things. It can also leave us exhausted, overwhelmed, and stressed out, not to mention disconnected from the things that actually matter to us in our lives. We can help you learn to strengthen your focus on what matters most to you while not letting anxiety be what’s driving you.

Do I really need counseling for anxiety and stress? Doesn’t everyone have stress? I should be able to handle it on my own.

Many of us learn ways to cope with our anxiety and stress in ways that “work” for a time but aren’t actually helpful. Even a little bit of intentional focus on reducing our stress and anxiety can make a big difference. We are meant for community and connection, and it’s oftentimes unrealistic to expect that we can handle it all on our own all of the time. We can help you learn new ways to change your relationship with the stress that you have so it doesn’t have to cost you so much emotionally. It really does take a village, and that’s okay.

Is it worth the expense? Anxiety treatment seems too expensive.

Working with a skilled therapist to identify ways to improve your life and the things that matter most to you is worth the investment. Whether you start anxiety treatment or stress management support to improve your health and well-being, strengthen your relationships, or reconnect with your own life passions, learning to live with less anxiety and stress getting in your way can actually enrich your life. We can help. Let’s do this!

I’m too busy and stressed for anxiety treatment. I don’t have time.

We get it. Life is full and adding “one more thing” could feel impossible right now. Our practice currently provides online services, so that you can meet with your therapist online during your day at a time that’s more convenient and flexible for your schedule. Let us help you and walk with you during this time.

START STRESS MANAGEMENT SUPPORT AND ANXIETY THERAPY IN COLORADO

At Rooted Counseling in Colorado, we believe that you can learn ways to live without anxiety or stress hurting you so much. It may take time to learn new skills and practices to help you feel better and manage your anxiety in new ways, but we think it’s possible! And it’s worth it!

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