Anxiety Therapy San Francisco—How To Control Your Anxiety: a Paradox

As a therapist, one of the chief reasons people come to me is to learn how to “control” their emotions, especially anxiety. Ironically, trying to control their emotions may be what leads to a problem in the first place. For most people controlling emotions looks like stuffing their emotions down, ignoring them, or simply pretending that they are born without emotions. This is problematic for a number of reasons.