Common Session Themes

Worry & Rumination

Patients with anxiety commonly experience repetitive thoughts, excessive worry, and difficulty disengaging from anxious thinking. Sessions often focus on identifying thought patterns, challenging unhelpful predictions, increasing cognitive flexibility, and developing strategies to manage rumination.

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Anxiety Triggers & Patterns

Sessions frequently explore situations, thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that contribute to anxiety responses. Therapy focuses on identifying triggers, understanding anxiety cycles, and increasing awareness of patterns that maintain distress.

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Uncertainty & Control

Many patients struggle with needing certainty, reassurance seeking, and difficulty tolerating unknown outcomes. Sessions often focus on building distress tolerance, increasing acceptance, and practicing skills for managing uncertainty.

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Avoidance & Anxiety Maintenance Cycles

Anxiety is often reinforced through avoidance, safety behaviors, and short-term coping strategies. Therapy may focus on understanding avoidance patterns, increasing approach behaviors, and developing healthier coping responses.

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Emotional Regulation & Coping Skills

Sessions may address managing physiological symptoms of anxiety, emotional overwhelm, and stress responses. Treatment often focuses on grounding skills, relaxation strategies, mindfulness, and distress tolerance techniques.

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Self Confidence & Fear of Failure

Many individuals with anxiety experience self-doubt, perfectionism, and fear of making mistakes. Sessions often focus on challenging negative self-beliefs, building confidence, and increasing willingness to engage despite anxiety.