Our Fort Lauderdale anxiety therapists work with adults experiencing generalized anxiety and chronic worry, panic attacks and panic disorder, social anxiety, specific phobias, high-functioning anxiety, health anxiety, performance anxiety, perfectionism, and other anxiety-related concerns.

Because anxiety can look different from one person to another, treatment is tailored to the patterns and symptoms affecting you.

Anxiety therapy typically involves understanding what triggers and maintains your anxiety and learning different ways to respond to anxious thoughts, physical sensations, uncertainty, and feared situations.

Depending on your needs, therapy may involve examining thinking patterns, reducing avoidance and reassurance-seeking, practicing new behaviors, learning strategies for managing physical symptoms, or gradually confronting situations you have been avoiding.

Yes. Anxiety disorders are treatable, and evidence-based psychotherapies such as CBT and exposure therapy have strong research support.

Therapy does not necessarily mean eliminating every anxious thought or feeling. Treatment can help you respond differently to anxiety so that it has less influence over your decisions, relationships, work, and daily life.

There is no universal timeline for anxiety therapy. The length of treatment depends on factors such as the type and severity of anxiety, how long the patterns have been present, your goals, how frequently you attend therapy, and how you respond to treatment.

Your therapist can give you a better sense of what treatment may look like after learning more about your specific situation.

A previous experience with therapy that did not help does not necessarily mean anxiety therapy will not work for you.

Sometimes treatment focuses primarily on coping skills without addressing the patterns that keep anxiety going, such as avoidance, reassurance-seeking, perfectionism, or difficulty tolerating uncertainty. In other cases, the therapist, treatment approach, timing, or goals may simply not have been the right fit.

Effective anxiety treatment should be personalized to how anxiety shows up in your life and should help you practice new ways of responding to fear, worry, and uncertainty, not just talk about them. If you have tried therapy before, tell your therapist what did and did not feel helpful so your treatment plan can build on that experience.

Yes. The Psychology Group provides in-person anxiety therapy at our Fort Lauderdale office at 2601 E. Oakland Park Blvd., as well as online therapy for clients who are appropriate for telehealth.

We serve clients throughout Fort Lauderdale and surrounding Broward County communities, including Wilton Manors, Oakland Park, Pompano Beach, Plantation, Davie, Coral Springs, and Lauderdale-by-the-Sea.