Is worry taking over your life?

We all experience anxiety or worry from time to time. However, sometimes this worry becomes difficult to control and so excessive that it starts to interfere with relationships, work, enjoying life and overall wellbeing. Anxiety is problematic when you start to experience intense, excessive and persistent worry about ordinary life events. Anxiety can present in various ways, including panic attacks, inability to stop thinking about one's fears, nausea, decrease in interactions with others or even sleeping issues. 

At Playa Vista Counseling, we help clients identify, understand and control their symptoms of anxiety while healing the underlying causes of it. We fully understand how debilitating anxiety can become and work from a strength based model to help our clients overcome anxiety as quickly as possible. Our therapists use treatment modalities such as Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy while providing a safe, caring and supportive environment for each and every client we treat.

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What is Anxiety?

Anxiety symptoms include:

• Feeling nervous, restless or tense
• Sense of impending danger, panic or doom
• Increased heart rate​
• Trouble concentrating 
• Having trouble sleeping
• Experiencing gastrointestinal problems
• Difficulty controlling worry
• Avoiding things that trigger anxiety

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Anxiety can present in several different forms including:​

• Generalized Anxiety Disorder
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Panic Attacks & Panic Disorder
• Phobias​
• Agoraphobia
• Separation Anxiety

How we treat Anxiety:

At Playa Vista Counseling, we used evidence-based therapeutic treatment modalities to treat anxiety. Most commonly, we are able to help our clients work through and gain control of their anxiety using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). This is generally a shorter-term form of therapy that helps relieve symptoms of anxiety relatively quickly.

CBT techniques help us identify the relationship between our thoughts, behaviors and our feelings and alter them in order to reduce anxiety. We'll help break down fears in order to overcome them. In CBT, we teach specific, effective skills to help manage anxiety symptoms with the goal of returning to a higher level of functioning.

Our therapists also utilize techniques such as mindfulness, relaxation techniques, and meditation to help tailor the treatment plan for each individual client.
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