Anxiety Treatment & Stress Management
Anxiety is NOT your identity
At The Keely Group, our team is comprised of seasoned anxiety therapists with years of experience helping clients to manage stress and cope with the challenges of work and life. We understand that a successful career brings unique challenges.
All Services Are Offered Online
Plus, all of our services are provided online for extra ease and convenience.
Are You Feeling Overworked, Stressed, or Anxious?
Is Work Wearing You Down?
Are you under too much pressure at work? Are the long days, fast pace, and relentless competition of today’s corporate environment wearing you down? If you, your boss, or your colleagues have high standards for performance, you might feel driven to micromanage others. You might also experience performance anxiety or panic attacks during public speaking. Especially if your work is very stressful.
Do Your Achievements Feel Hollow?
Are your hard-earned achievements failing to translate into happiness? You might question whether you’ve made enough progress toward your personal or professional goals. Or, you may wonder if you’re even on the right path at all. If you tend to view life choices as binary, you may fear that one wrong move will set you on an unalterable path, paralyzing you into inaction.
Are Your Own High Standards Overwhelming You?
Does the thought of achieving and maintaining your own high standards overwhelm you? If so, you might meet those standards in some areas, but completely give up in others. For example, the organization of your home or office. You may judge yourself harshly for such “failures,” feeding a vicious cycle of anxiety and shame.
Have You Taken on Too Much?
Are you worried that you may have taken on too much? Despite that, is it hard for you to say “no” to people, forcing you to waste time and energy on things you never wanted to do in the first place? As a result, you may never manage to feel rested, especially if—like many anxiety sufferers—you have insomnia or nocturnal panic attacks.
You deserve to live free from overwhelming anxiety and stress.
No, really.
What Are the Impacts of Anxiety?
Is Your Enjoyment of Social Activities Dampened?
Does your anxiousness and exhaustion affect your enjoyment of social events? If you have anxiety in crowds, you may even have difficulty running errands. If so, you might ask yourself if social anxiety is a normal part of living in New York or wonder if you might have agoraphobia.
Is Relaxation Impossible?
Do you worry that, if you relax, everything might fall apart? This feeling can lead to physical symptoms. You may suffer from frequent headaches, pain in your jaw, or neck tension. You may also find yourself holding your breath or breathing shallowly when you’re anxious.
Anxiety can magnify life’s challenges and make you question yourself. This can affect your work performance and relationships. You may think that, because you don’t know how to overcome anxiety, there must be something wrong with you. But your anxiety isn’t who you are. And, anxiety treatment can help.
Anxiety affects 30 million adults every year. You are pulled in a million different directions, from trying to achieve your career goals to building a family and relationships. Deadlines, caretaker responsibilities, fitness goals, holiday activities, political issues, and more are all vying for your attention. Trying to achieve perfection in every area is a recipe for anxiety.
Is Anxiety Normal?
Everyone experiences anxiety to some degree. So, anxiety isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Physiological stress can be a signal of danger up ahead, protecting you from harm. But, your psyche doesn’t know the difference between an attacking lion and an angry boss, so it may sometimes overreact to stressors.
Modern technology exposes you to more opportunities for professional and personal life fulfillment than you could ever practically pursue. Western culture dictates that you should work as hard as possible and do everything perfectly—which means that “good enough” rarely actually feels good enough. Anxiety is a natural result when you can’t live up to your own expectations or those of others. Read our comprehensive blog on Anxiety here and get even more in-depth information.
How Can Anxiety Treatment Help?
Working through anxiety treatment won’t completely eliminate the stress in your life. But, a skilled therapist can teach you stress management techniques. Over time, anxiety treatment can help you recognize and de-escalate anxiety-inducing situations. This can greatly reduce the magnitude of your stress responses.
Past Experiences Shape Our Present
Whether you realize it or not, your past experiences shape how you interpret and respond to stimuli today. Your mind learns from every experience. So oftentimes, you’re not responding to what’s in front of you, but to your history. Or, at least to what your history has taught you to anticipate in the present moment.
Emotional Autopilot
This emotional autopilot can take you places mentally that you don’t want to go to. You may overreact or make false assumptions about yourself or people you encounter, even loved ones. Our New York City therapy practice offers a variety of therapies designed to help you recognize this unconscious conditioning when it occurs. Anxiety treatment gives you a choice between continuing on autopilot or making a course correction.
Become a Natural Observer
In sessions with your online therapist, you will be encouraged to become a neutral observer of your own thoughts and impulses. You’ll learn to gently question the source of your anxiety when it arises. This helps you identify your triggers and any deep-seated emotions that may be driving them. You’ll also learn practical strategies and relaxation techniques to help you regain your calm in stressful situations.
Learn to Communicate on a Deeper Level with Anxiety Treatment
Anxiety treatment will help you communicate on a deeper level with the people in your life by slowing you down enough to question your assumptions about them. You’ll also learn to recognize false assumptions about yourself. Many of our patients don’t realize how deeply they’ve internalized harmful self-judgments, even if they recognize that they have low self-esteem. So, your therapist will explore with you whether these judgments are accurate, or whether they’re just a familiar story that’s on repeat, only serving to hold you back.
Take Better Care of Yourself
With anxiety treatment, you’ll also learn to take better care of yourself. With our help, you can learn to tolerate the discomfort of saying “no,” creating new opportunities for self-care. As a result, you’ll have more energy for the things you’ve said “yes” to.
As you consider anxiety treatment options,
you may be wondering…
Isn't my anxiety what's holding everything together?
You may have noticed a correlation between your anxiety and your ability to get things done. After all, ceaseless activity and stress tend to go hand in hand. You might fear that if you let go of some of your anxiety, you’ll be less successful. But, ambition isn’t diminished when anxiety starts to dissolve—it’s actually strengthened. It can be very difficult to mentally disentangle stress and ambition, but anxiety treatment can help you with that.
Stress is normal and I should be able to handle it…right?
It’s true that workplace stress and other forms of anxiety are common in our fast-paced culture. Further, many people are able to “handle it” on their own. But, it’s also true that persistent anxiety can affect every area of your life. Therefore, reducing it can be life-changing. If stress is limiting your potential, anxiety treatment and stress management can get you back on track more quickly and with less discomfort than handling it on your own.
Anxiety treatment seems expensive. Is it really worth it?
If you want to improve your relationships, your health, and all the other things anxiety can affect in your life, working with an anxiety therapist can be worth the investment. When you learn to tolerate a full range of feelings—including anxiety and stress—you’ll be better prepared for every situation you encounter. Many clients have even told us that their fresh perspective, calmer demeanor, and healthier self-esteem have led to professional advancement, and in some cases, improved earning potential.
I’m so busy already…won't adding to my schedule make me more anxious?
Our therapists understand the New York City lifestyle. You’re moving a thousand miles a minute. When you finally sit down after a long day, the only thing on your mind is your to-do list for tomorrow. No wonder you’re feeling anxious! Our therapy practice in New York provides all services online. This means that you can meet with your anxiety therapist between board meetings or during your commute to the airport. Online therapy in New York can meet your needs of convenience and flexibility.
Let’s Create a Strategy to Better Manage Your Stress and Anxiety
Ready to Start Managing Your Stress and Anxiety Effectively?
You may feel like dealing with stress and anxiety are just a part of your life you have to come to terms with, even though it’s exhausting. There is no hope, right? Wrong! You don’t have to live your life controlled by stress and anxiety anymore. At The Keely Group, our team works with high-achieving individuals who live in the hustle and bustle culture of New York City to overcome and effectively manage their stress and anxiety. If you are ready to take back control, follow the steps below to get started.
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Other Online Mental Health Services Offered at The Keely Group in New York City
In addition to Online Therapy for Anxiety, The Keely Group offers a wide variety of online services to fit the needs of busy professionals. We understand that you may face other challenges throughout your daily life that can affect relationships and dating, so we offer online therapy services to help you cope with these issues. Our ultimate goal is to help you streamline your life and that's why we offer an array of services such as:
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