Wellness and Recovery Counseling, LLC’s aims to assist those struggling with social anxiety in finding ways to manage and channel their fears into more productive outcomes.
Social anxiety can make everyday interactions feel overwhelming. Psychotherapy provides a safe space to explore the root causes of your anxiety, develop coping strategies, and gradually build the confidence to engage in social situations with ease. Let's work together to help you rediscover the joy of connection.
When you'd just like to connect to someone without overthinking. You'd like to go to the party, and actually walk in. You just want to connect without fear.
Let's do this.
In treating social anxiety, I start by understanding specific fears and triggers through assessment. Using cognitive restructuring and exposure therapy, I help clients challenge irrational thoughts and gradually face social situations, developing personalized strategies to manage anxiety and build confidence.
Social anxiety is more than just being afraid to speak in public, for many people social anxiety is fear of being judged by other people in any social setting to the extent that they usually decline any social events. Treating social anxiety involves trying to find the source for the anxiety and the negative beliefs that have become part of the client's self beliefs so that we can desensitize, reframe, reprocess, and replace these negative beliefs with improved self-confidence. We will also use visualization exercises in which the client will imagine a social setting and being comfortable with who they are in social settings.
If you're struggling with social anxiety, I help you identify and take steps to overcome your social fears and limiting beliefs to find your communication style, what works best for you, and practice doing it.
Social anxiety can hold us back in many areas of life, including work, family, relationships, and self esteem. I can help you identify the source of your anxiety and work to reduce the impact of it so you can build satisfying relationships and pursue your goals without undue fear or discomfort.
Social anxiety can prevent us from living the life that we want. We may avoid certain places, situations or people because of our anxiety around others. As someone who has dealt with a fair bit of social anxiety in my own life, I can help teach you proven tools to systematically address social anxiety and reclaim your life.