Anxiety Therapy NYC

When Overwhelm Takes Over 

You don’t know what’s wrong with you.  You’ll be going along ok, and then suddenly it’s like a dark cloud of negativity falls on you.  And when that happens, you don’t want anyone to bother you.  You just want to withdraw and be alone.  It’s getting harder to hide when this happens to you, especially when you’re at work or around friends. 

 Anxiety Has Brought You to a Halt

It happened yesterday at work, that dark feeling.  You could feel it coming on in the past few days.  Sometimes it comes with a headache or stomach ache, but today it was just a feeling of darkness, and a mix of anger and sadness.  It feels like it’s something outside of you taking over, that you can’t control.  You couldn’t concentrate on anything and were snappy with your colleagues, so you decided it was better to say you were sick and go home.  You just lay in your bed watching mindless shows.  You feel the same today, but can’t keep calling out sick and pushing your friends away.  No one understands what is going on with you, least of all yourself.  

It sounds so crazy when you try to describe it that you don’t even try to explain it to many people.  They either think you’re being overly dramatic, sensitive, or just plain weird.   You’re starting to feel really scared.  What if you can’t function at work anymore and lose your job and all your friends?  Your anxiety about it is taking over. 

You Need Help for Your Anxiety Today

People are pushing you to talk to a therapist, but you don’t want to spend months talking about your childhood, which you don’t think will help at all.  Besides, you want help right now!  You also really don’t want to go on medication as you react so strongly to meds.  You really hope you can find someone who understands what’s going on with you and can help you get out of this hole!

You Found Anxiety Therapy in NYC That Works!

Hi.  I’m Melanie Miller, LCSW, an anxiety therapist in the New York City area.  I help sensitive people—who feel everything deeply and are easily hurt or overwhelmed by jobs and relationships—learn to work with their sensitivity so that anxiety doesn’t control their lives.  

My clients quickly move from anxiety and panic that they will no longer be able to maintain a job or relationships to feeling grounded, stable, and strong.  They go from keeping themselves small to expanding their lives in fulfilling relationships,  work, and creative self-expression.  They learn about the important role of anxiety and fear in humans and how to retrain their minds to have a calmer, more empowering response to life events.  They learn about their natures as a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) and how their childhood response to this sensitivity may have resulted in their current overwhelmed, highly anxious state.  Together we find new ways of responding unique to them that are empowering rather than restricting.  

For over fifteen years, I’ve helped highly sensitive clients recover from crippling anxiety, panic, and trauma.  My clients typically meet with me weekly to get the support and guidance they need to move out of crisis.  We focus initially on tools such as breathing, mindfulness, and movement, that can help them move quickly into a calmer state  and provide stability so we can move to deeper work that shifts how they feel and function in the world.  

Are You Ready To Stop Letting Anxiety Control You?

If you’re ready to stop withdrawing from life and letting anxiety overwhelm you, contact me now for a FREE 15-minute consultation to discover how therapy with someone who gets exactly what’s going on with you can make all the difference in your life. 

I know it can feel like a big step to call a therapist, but I’ll make it easy. We’ll spend 15-minutes on the phone and I’ll let you know how or if I can help. If I am not the right person, I’ll do my best to get you to the right person. Contact me at melaniemillernyc@gmail.com or (212) 234-6724 for your free 15-minute phone consultation for therapy in NYC. My specialties include anxiety, trauma, PTSD, Highly Sensitive People, and work/career issues.