Our therapists provide anxiety therapy in Hoffman Estates, IL

The licensed anxiety therapists at Thriveworks in Hoffman Estates, IL are mental health professionals who care deeply about helping people thrive. They treat each client with compassion and expertise, guiding them to important insights about their mental health condition.

With well-researched approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), Thriveworks providers can help clients reduce their anxiety symptoms and achieve their goals. Call us at (224) 267-9477 to schedule your session today.

What Is Anxiety Therapy?

The goal of anxiety therapy is to offer guidance and support, mitigate symptoms of anxiety disorders, and give people tools to help them manage their symptoms. This can be done through psychotherapy or medication, or often both simultaneously. 

Though medication cannot cure anxiety, they can bring symptoms down to a manageable level, allowing someone with anxiety to function more easily in their daily life and spend more energy sorting through the mental ramifications of anxiety. 

This is why psychotherapy is an important part of healing anxiety. Anxiety presents physical symptoms, such as rapid heartbeat, sweating, and even panic attacks, but without identifying triggers and getting to the root of what is causing the anxiety, it is difficult to fully treat it.

How Does Anxiety Counseling Work?

Therapy can help with anxiety in multiple ways, depending on what’s triggering the client’s anxiety and what the root causes are. But therapy helps people with anxiety every day through the following approaches:

• CBT and DBT
• Exposure therapy, especially for specific phobias of objects or situations (also called systematic desensitization)
• Strength-based approaches
• Person-centered approaches
• Emotion-focused therapy
• Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
• Mindfulness 
• Relaxation techniques like deep breathing
• Trauma-informed therapy
• Anxiety medications like antidepressants
• Supportive-expressive therapy
• Biofeedback 
• Support groups
• Substance abuse and addiction counseling
• Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (EMDR)
• Lifestyle modifications
• Stress management
• Meditation
• Family therapy or couples counseling 

How Does DBT Therapy Work?

Dialectical behavioral therapy uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help clients manage mental health conditions like mood disorders or personality disorders. The idea behind DBT is that clients should work toward acceptance of their medical condition at the same time as they work to change it. It helps people identify the negative thinking and belief patterns that can cause distress and unhealthy behaviors. Through acceptance and hard work, people can learn to modify their thoughts and discover better ways of functioning in the world. 

Schedule Anxiety Therapy at Thriveworks in Hoffman Estates, IL

Don’t wait any longer to address the anxiety that might be impeding your hopes and dreams. Call Thriveworks today at (224) 267-9477 to book an appointment and start feeling better. We offer our clients many benefits including evening and weekend sessions, major insurances accepted, same-week appointments, and more.