Anxiety Therapy in North Carolina | Online Counseling for Anxiety in Winston-Salem, NC

People struggling with anxiety often feel constantly on edge, overwhelmed, and unable to relax. You may find yourself stuck in cycles of overthinking, worrying about the “what ifs,” or replaying conversations long after they’ve ended. Or, your anxiety may be showing up in your body. Regardless of your presentation, anxiety can show up as a combination of mental and physical symptoms.

Anxiety Symptoms may include

• Racing thoughts

• Difficulty concentrating

• Irritability

• Tightness in chest

• Rapid heartbeat

• Trouble sleeping

Even when things seem “fine” on the outside, you might feel exhausted, restless, or like your mind won’t shut off. If you’re searching for relief from anxiety, know that these experiences are common—and effective anxiety therapy can help you feel calmer, more grounded, and back in control. I provide online anxiety counseling to adults across North Carolina, including Winston-Salem, Greensboro, and surrounding areas in the Triad; and, I can help you learn tools to better manage these symptoms.

Yes, for many individuals anxiety often presents has physical symptoms. These symptoms may include:

• Shortness of breath

• Rapid heart beat

• Upset stomach

• Dry mouth or difficulty swallowing

• Tight muscles

• Tingling in the hands and feet

• Sweating

• Tiredness

• Difficulty Sleeping

If you notice yourself experiencing several of these symptoms, you may benefit from talking with a licensed therapist to further assess your symptoms. I am a licensed therapist in the state of North Carolina who provides online anxiety assessment and support. In our work, we can learn tools to better manage our symptoms and improve our quality of life.

This is a tricky question! Yes and no. To a certain degree, we can engage in lifestyle behaviors that can reduce the likelihood of experiencing an anxious episode. Research indicates that people who engage in the following activities often demonstrate less anxiety:

• Exercise 20-minutes per day

• Get good sleep (7-9 hours)

• Have 20-minutes of outside sunlight per day

• Eat whole foods that are primarily plant based

People who exercise, get good sleep, spend time outside, and heath a healthy whole foods diet often report less anxiety. However, this doesn’t mean you will never experience an anxious episode of you do these things. Anxiety is a result of an activated “fight-or-flight system” which is naturally hard wired into our body, meaning that there’s no way we can avoid anxiety 100% of the time. The best we can hope for is “setting the stage” for success. We can do that by engage in healthy lifestyle behaviors that can improve our overall mood.

Research shows that having moderate levels of anxiety actually improves our performance, with too much anxiety being a problem and too little leaving us under prepared. We want a moderate amount of anxiety to improve our performance. All this to say, we want the “sweet spot” of anxiety. Too much anxiety and we can’t focus and too little anxiety we don’t care. 

Your anxiety is a problem when it is functionally impacting your day-to-day life. This can show up as:

• Avoiding situations that feel uncomfortable or uncertain

• Procrastination

• Over-preparing or under-preparing

• People pleasing or saying no to hard things

• Checking behaviors (e.g., locks or emails)

• Impacting workplace/school performance

Your anxiety is keeping you from making meaningful connections with others, your workplace performance is suffering, or you’re not doing well at school. Anxiety counseling can provide tools to help better manage your anxiety and improve your overall life quality. Tranquil Talk Therapy is accepting new clients and will respond to all email inquires within 24-hours.

There are several evidence based interventions to treat your anxiety. This includes the following:

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for anxiety

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for anxiety

• Exposure Therapy for Anxiety

• Exposure and Response Prevention for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

• Mindfulness for Anxiety

  Online Anxiety Counseling is safe and effective. Together, we will work to look at your thoughts, challenges these thoughts, and gradually work to build distress tolerance to things that make us anxious. Together, we will find a treatment plan that works for you and find symptom relief.

Anxiety often builds over time, resulting in you feeling keyed up or on edge. You might experience sleep difficulty, feeling tense throughout the body, or experiencing racing thoughts. In contrast, panic attacks usually present suddenly. You’ll likely experience feelings of shortness of breath and might happen in response to a trigger. People often mistake the feeling of a panic attack for a heart attack. People often experience feelings of racing heart beat, sweating, and shortness of breath. Even though panic attacks are scary and uncomfortable, no one has ever died from feeling anxious or having a panic attack.

With both anxiety and panic attacks, people tend to avoid anxious triggers. In doing so, it actually increases their anxiety in the long run, because they do not learn how to deal with these feelings. Working with a licensed therapist can help you address these anxious thoughts. At Tranquil Talk Therapy, I am a licensed psychological associate who provides online anxiety support and will teach you new skills to better manage your anxiety. As a provider who accepts insurance, I will help you access affordable treatment. Tranquil Talk Therapy is an AI free institution, meaning your information is safe with me.

Yes, therapy can be helpful in the treatment of anxiety. In plain language, individuals with anxiety often try to avoid the uncomfortable feelings of anxiety. In doing so, this actually makes your anxiety worse, because you never learn that you can cope with the situation. I view anxiety similarly to a “Chinese finger trap.” With anxiety, you often want to pull away from the uncomfortable experience, resulting in becoming more “trapped.” To get out of the “finger trap,” we actually need to lean into the trap and experience the feelings that come along with it. By doing so, we actually find that we are able to create a little more space in our life and wiggle out of the trap. 

Online anxiety therapy can help you develop new skills to better manage your anxiety and reduce the hold that anxiety has on your life. I am a licensed therapist with a decade of clinical experience. I’m in-network with several insurance, making therapy more affordable than ever. I am an independently owned business, and I do not partner with any online therapy platforms, use AI in my business, or use 3rd-party billing practices. In plain language, your information is safe with me.