Mid-Atlantic Psychotherapy
Anxiety Therapy
Therapy to help you manage overwhelm, anxiety, stress, and burnout, so you can live a more peaceful, fulfilling life. In person in Vienna, VA and online across Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia.
Learn strategies to manage anxiety & stress
set healthy boundaries that align with your values
Feel more confident & grounded
When you can’t seem to quiet the overwhelm in your head.
You love the life you’ve built, and the things you have worked for, but it feels like you’re losing yourself in the chaos of responsibilities and daily demands on your time and energy.
What would it feel like if you had a moment to step back, take a breath, and make decisions that align with your core values?
With anxiety therapy, we can help you find a sense of calm that will change how you live.
Anxiety Therapy in Vienna, VA, Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia
How Do I Know If Anxiety Therapy Is Right For Me?
Anxiety is the most common mental health challenge in America, affecting nearly 30% of adults, and can stem from a chemical imbalance, environmental factors, or heredity. It doesn’t discriminate between age, situation, or gender, and the impact it has can make it difficult to go about your daily life.
In anxiety therapy, we can help identify the root cause of your anxiety and provide you with tools and strategies to manage it. Using a variety of therapeutic approaches, we meet you where you are and develop a treatment plan that works for you.
Anxiety, stress, and overwhelm make it feel like the weight of the world is on your shoulders. Therapy is your safe space to slow down and prioritize your mental health.
We offer anxiety therapy in person at our Vienna, VA office in Fairfax County and virtually throughout Washington DC, Maryland, and Northern Virginia.
Therapy can help when anxiety makes you feel:
- Unappreciated
- Unfulfilled despite success
- Lonely in a busy world
- Tension in your relationships
- The weight of expectations
- Physical symptoms
- Over-productive
- Anxious or worried
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5 Ways Anxiety Therapy Can Help
Anxiety therapy can help you:
Identify Triggers & Patterns
Anxiety therapy helps you identify specific triggers and patterns that may contribute to your anxiety. By understanding what causes your anxiety and how it manifests, you can develop strategies to manage it more effectively. Your therapist will work with you to explore the underlying factors driving your anxiety and develop personalized coping techniques tailored to your needs.
Learn Coping Skills
Anxiety therapy equips you with practical coping skills to manage anxiety symptoms when they arise. Your therapist will teach you relaxation techniques, mindfulness practices, and cognitive-behavioral strategies to help you regulate your emotions and calm your mind. These skills empower you to respond to anxiety triggers in healthier and more adaptive ways, reducing the impact of anxiety on your daily life.
Challenge Negative Thought Patterns
Anxiety therapy helps you challenge and reframe negative thought patterns that fuel anxiety. Your therapist will guide you in examining irrational beliefs and cognitive distortions that contribute to anxious thinking. Through cognitive-behavioral techniques, you’ll learn to replace negative thoughts with more realistic and balanced perspectives, empowering you to regain control over your thoughts and emotions.
Build Self-Confidence
Anxiety therapy focuses on building self-confidence and self-esteem to combat feelings of inadequacy and self-doubt. Your therapist will help you identify and challenge self-limiting beliefs that contribute to anxiety and develop a more compassionate and nurturing relationship with yourself. By recognizing your strengths and accomplishments, you’ll cultivate a greater sense of self-assurance and resilience in the face of overwhelming or anxiety-provoking situations.
Improve Communication Skills
Anxiety therapy provides opportunities to improve communication skills and assertiveness, reducing interpersonal stressors that contribute to anxiety. Your therapist will help you identify ineffective communication patterns and develop assertive communication techniques that align with your values in order to express your needs, set boundaries, and advocate for yourself effectively. Enhanced communication skills can lead to healthier relationships and reduce anxiety related to social interactions and conflict resolution.
Your free 20 minute consultation is waiting for you!
Meet us in person at our Vienna, VA office near Tysons Corner, or connect virtually from anywhere in Washington DC, Maryland, or Northern Virginia. Book online or contact us.
About Us
Why Work With
Mid-Atlantic Psychotherapy
We believe that everyone deserves to find some calm amidst life’s challenges.
When you’re struggling with holding it all together, prioritizing everyone else’s needs over your own, or just trying to understand how to make life a little easier, it can be hard to know what you need or where to start. There are so many competing priorities that you feel overwhelmed and alone in a life that isn’t giving you enough connection, acknowledgement, or ease. We want to help you create a life that feels balanced, successful, and aligned with your core values.
At Mid-Atlantic Psychotherapy, our clinicians help you align your behaviors and decisions with your core values. You’ll have a greater sense of confidence and greater sense of ease moving through your day.
Our goal is for you to leave therapy feeling greater mental clarity to make deliberate decisions that bring happiness to your life.
With over 40 years of combined experience, our therapy practice was built on the philosophy that no one should have to go through the hardships of life alone and that with the right help, you can quiet the chaos of day-to-day life, prioritize your mental health, and live a life with greater ease and satisfaction. We see clients in person at our Vienna, VA office in Fairfax County and virtually throughout Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia.
Christina Moynihan
MSW, LICSW
Psychotherapist & Founder
Our practice is committed to:
Compassion
We genuinely care about your mental wellness and aim to help you improve your life and relationships through compassionate care.
Inclusion
We create a welcoming and inclusive environment where you feel heard, understood, and respected, allowing you to fully participate in your journey.
Sincerity
We are committed to creating a safe space where you can openly express your true feelings, thoughts, beliefs, and joys, and where you can expect your provider to be genuine, honest, and truthful.
Enthusiasm
We approach your mental wellness journey with genuine excitement and passion, fuelled by the belief in your potential for growth and transformation.
Empowerment
We see your strength and resilience and empower you to take action that focuses on reaching your goals and living a life you love.
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Our APPROACH
How Anxiety Therapy Works
1
We understand your story
In understanding your story, we can validate how the anxiety, over-productivity, engagement in overwhelm, high achievement mindset has served you up until this point.
2
We identify where you want to be
We provide insight and understanding about other strategies that may allow you to align your decisions and behaviors more closely with your core values
3
We support you along the way
We encourage you to be curious and practice loosening your grip on old behaviors or mindsets that no longer serve you, collaborating with you to develop new approaches to the circumstances of day-to-day life.
We help you quiet the thoughts that aren’t serving you so that you can get back to living.
Questions About Anxiety
Do you offer in-person anxiety therapy in Vienna, VA?
Do you offer a free consultation for anxiety therapy?
What if I’m “just an anxious person?” Can therapy help me?
We don’t believe that you are “just someone who is anxious” at your core. In a healthy expression, anxiety is a temporary response to perceived threats or stressors. When people begin to identify themselves with anxiousness as a fixed character trait, we consider what life circumstances or patterns have kept them stuck in a response that, in general, should be temporary or transient. Therapy can help you identify your core values and explore whether or not anxiety is keeping you from your fullest potential. If you decide that it is, our clinicians can help you create greater insight into how anxiety may have served you in the past, what parts of life anxiety is intruding upon now, and new strategies to practice to find some relief.
Isn’t everyone anxious?
Everyone experiences anxiety, of course. As a feeling, anxiety encompasses sensations of nervousness, apprehensiveness, or unease resulting from our brain’s response to a perceived threat or stressor. It can also be accompanied by physiological responses such as increased heart rate and shallow breathing. This temporary response is a good thing, it is intended to keep us alert and safe. Just like the circumstances we respond to, anxiety can vary in intensity and duration. This often influences our thoughts, behaviors, and overall well-being.
But, when anxiety doesn’t subside, the toll it takes on our body, mind, and relationships can be crippling. Living in a loop of worry or panic, perpetual fatigue, irritability, and physical ache/tension is suffering, not surviving.
Clinical forms of anxiety can manifest in many forms (generalized anxiety disorder, PTSD, social anxiety, OCD, phobias, and panic). Therapy can help reduce your symptoms of anxiety and help you get back to living the life you deserve.
Do I need to take medication to manage anxiety?
While medication can help with anxiety symptoms, it won’t change stressful or overwhelming situations, and it doesn’t address the root causes like therapy does. Therapy offers a safe space to explore what’s behind your anxiety and learn practical strategies to manage it. Ultimately, the decision to pursue medication for anxiety should be made in consultation with a qualified healthcare professional, taking into account your individual needs, preferences, and the potential benefits and risks associated with medication.
What if my anxiety is keeping me afloat? Will my life fall apart?
You are a person who is living with a tremendous amount of resilience and perseverance. It’s proof of how much you have already achieved and your pursuit to maintain a successful life for yourself and your family. Making sustainable change and investing in your mental wellness is risky! And, we believe that when the physical and emotional symptoms of anxiety are quieted, when you get off the constant conveyor belt of day-to-day overwhelm, you can confidently make deliberate decisions that are better in line with your core values.
A lot of people have circumstances that are worse off than me, shouldn’t I just be grateful for the life I have?
Everyone’s circumstances are different, and, objectively, you may be living a life that many others admire or wish for. No matter what your situation is, you deserve to live a life with greater ease and happiness. Anxiety doesn’t discriminate, doesn’t care about your level of education, or the high-profile promotion you just received. Everyone is deserving of a space to focus on their mental wellness.
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How To Get Started
Whether you prefer meeting in person at our Vienna, VA office in Fairfax County or connecting virtually from home, getting started is simple. Book your session online, complete your intake forms electronically, and you are on your way.
Schedule your intake appointment or a free 20-minute consultation! You can book online using the button below, submit a message via our contact form, or call us. Free consultations are optional.
Have questions? Call 571-771-1989 and you can speak to one of our administrative staff. They are happy to help answer any questions or match you with a therapist.
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Finding Relief From Anxiety
We recognize that the timeline for everyone’s treatment outcomes are unique and may shift along with the circumstances life presents to you. Many people experience some symptom relief in just a few sessions, but depending on your treatment goals, you may consider a longer commitment to the therapeutic process. We encourage you to come as you are, stay as long as you need, and leave when you’re ready.
Over time, you may notice relief and improvements such as:
- A deeper sense of connection
- More calm & mental focus
- Living a life that aligns with your values & beliefs
- Feeling free from patterns of behavior that no longer serve you
- A greater sense of balance in a busy world
- The ability to identify and implement boundaries that protect and preserve your best life
Online anxiety therapy in Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia
Mid-Atlantic Psychotherapy
Helping you quiet anxiety & overwhelm so you can get back to living life.