Anxiety Therapy to Help You Find Peace and Balance in San Diego, CA

Have you ever felt like anxiety has taken over parts of your life, making even the simplest tasks feel like monumental challenges?

Anxiety can feel like an invisible weight that a person carries everywhere, impacting even the simplest parts of daily life. For someone with anxiety, tasks that others handle effortlessly—like making a phone call, meeting a new person, or even just walking into a crowded room—can feel impossible. It’s not just a matter of “nerves” but an intense, often relentless worry that gnaws away at confidence, making them question everything they do or say. This constant state of alertness can be exhausting, leading to sleepless nights, strained relationships, and an intense need to isolate from others.

If you are struggling with anxiety in your day-to-day life, it’s time to seek help. At A New View of You in San Diego, California, we offer anxiety therapy to help you navigate and manage the challenges of living with anxiety. Whether you’re experiencing persistent worry, panic attacks, or physical symptoms of stress, our anxiety therapist provides a supportive, solution-focused approach tailored to your unique needs. Through therapy for anxiety, you can regain control, build resilience, and discover lasting relief.

How Does Anxiety Happen?

You may or may not be surprised to know it’s a brain thing! When someone experiences an overwhelming or traumatic event, their brain and body react instinctively to protect them from harm. This instinctual trauma response is meant to keep us safe by triggering the fight or flight reactions. However, for many, these intense responses don’t just switch off once the event is over. Instead, the body and mind stay on high alert or in the fight/flight, creating patterns of anxiety as if the danger could happen again at any moment. This occurs because the scary event or story that triggered our responses never has an end. Over time, this response becomes ingrained and loops around in our brain when triggered, leading to persistent anxiety because the brain continues to interpret various situations—even the simplest, everyday ones—as potential threats. In other words, hypervigilance and fight/flight responses are stuck on a loop in your brain creating anxiety. But there’s good news! Anxiety can be understood and those responses can be relieved.

The Instinctual Trauma Response® for Treating Anxiety

The Instinctual Trauma Response® (ITR) method helps by guiding people to recognize that these reactions are a natural protective response. Through techniques that safely explore these traumatic memories, individuals learn to rewire their response systems. Gradually, they can train their minds and bodies to feel secure in situations that once triggered fear, reducing or even eliminating the constant anxiety they feel. By breaking these old patterns, the ITR® method empowers people to regain control, allowing them to move through life with greater confidence and calm. Numerous San Diego residents have found peace thanks to anxiety therapy at A New View of You, and you could be next!

Social Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorders: Yes, That’s Anxiety, Too!

Social anxiety disorder, a greater-than-normal fear of social situations, can feel inescapable. This particular kind of anxiety ingrains itself so deeply into your thoughts and feelings that it alters your behavior, ultimately changing the way you feel about and experience the world. Specific symptoms of social anxiety vary from individual to individual, but can include any number of the following:

• Extreme self-consciousness and nerves during social interactions
• Disproportionate worrying about future social interactions
• Physical symptoms of anxiety, including blushing, shaking, or sweating, and/or worry about manifesting these physical symptoms during a social interaction
• Excessive fear of being watched and/or judged, or of being humiliated
• Compulsively reviewing past social interactions, going over your behaviors, and feeling ashamed of your perceived social mistakes
• Minimizing social interactions by avoiding people as much as possible

Anxiety symptoms can contribute to powerful feelings of loneliness and isolation for veterans with social anxiety disorder. Such feelings can be intensely disruptive to day-to-day life, causing withdrawal from social situations, including work obligations, or even interactions with family and friends. But it is important to remember that seven percent of the population also has social anxiety, and you are never alone in your struggle with this mental disorder.

What Is a Panic Disorder?

A type of anxiety disorder, panic disorder, is characterized by recurring bouts of intense fear known as panic attacks. Panic attacks are scary, extremely physical experiences that manifest themselves in various symptoms, including nausea, dizziness, shortness of breath, racing heart, shaking or trembling, and numbness. These physical panic attacks can have extreme mental, emotional, and practical consequences, including constant anxiety about having a panic attack. Changes in behavior to avoid panic attacks can develop into agoraphobia, loneliness, and isolation.

Signs and Symptoms of Panic Disorders

Panic disorder is a form of anxiety disorder. Just like any other form of anxiety disorder, there’s no standard of signs and symptoms. However, people will usually experience their personal symptoms in many different ways. That being said, there are several common symptoms nearly everyone who has a panic disorder will experience, including:

• Strong Physical Reactions that could include Nausea Pounding or Racing Heart, Chest Pain, Dizziness, Chills, Sweats
• A feeling of impending doom or even a looming fear of death
• Sudden and/or recurrent bouts of overwhelming anxiety and fears

One of the worst things that come with panic attacks is the intense feeling that you’ll have another one soon after. You may fear having extended and more panic attacks so much that you avoid certain situations, objects, or feelings where they may occur.

How Can an Anxiety Therapist Help?

Working with an anxiety therapist offers you the guidance and expertise needed to tackle the flaws in your psyche and discover coping mechanisms that make life easier. At A New View of You, Melisa brings over 25 years of experience as a licensed therapist and specializes in trauma-informed care, which is often deeply intertwined with anxiety. Her compassionate approach combines neuroscience-backed techniques with practical strategies to address anxiety holistically, offering benefits like:

• Reduced physical and emotional symptoms of anxiety
• Improved coping skills and stress management techniques
• Greater self-awareness and emotional resilience
• Tools to reduce panic attacks and intrusive thoughts
• Enhanced focus, confidence, and peace of mind

Therapy for anxiety can help you transform how you experience and respond to stress for positive effects that will last you the rest of your life.

Start Your Journey to Peace of Mind With Anxiety Therapy

If anxiety is interfering with your life, therapy for anxiety at A New View of You can help you find clarity and balance. Call or email us today to schedule your consultation with a skilled anxiety therapist in San Diego and take the first step toward lasting relief!