Anxiety

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Nobody likes feeling constantly on edge. Sometimes it’s a short-term response to stress; other times, it can feel like a lifelong companion. 

Anxiety can interfere with sleep, appetite, and the ability to enjoy relationships. It can strain connections with loved ones and make everyday life feel overwhelming. Alongside depression, it’s one of the most common mental health challenges people face. 

Anxiety is a signal that something within us is struggling to come into awareness.  It often arises when life is asking for change, but part of us resists.  We may feel torn between who we've been and who we are becoming.  Between familiar patterns of safety and a deeper call toward growth.

In Depth psychotherapy, anxiety is understood as energy that has become blocked or split.  It can appear when aspects of the psyche we have ignored, repressed, or outgrown begin to press for recognition.  This tension between the conscious self and the unconscious often manifests as restlessness, worry, or fear that something is wrong.  Even when nothing in our outer world seems to explain it.  

While relaxation training can be an important part of an anxious person's healing journey, Depth psychotherapy would also invite curiosity about the message of the anxiety.  What is it trying to signal or bring attention to?