How to Find An Anxiety Therapist in San Francisco

How to Find An Anxiety Therapist in San Francisco

Living in San Francisco has many amazing advantages (natural beauty, museums, great weather) and some disadvantages (housing prices anyone?) but life can still have its challenges—especially during this time of unprecedented change. When those challenges comes up, whether it is job loss, feeling unable to cope, or simply feeling down-- finding support from a professional can seem daunting. San Francisco has tons of therapists but finding one that you feel comfortable opening up to can be a challenge.

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Heart Reaching Through My Fingertips—A Dance Therapy Session in San Francisco

Heart Reaching Through My Fingertips—A Dance Therapy Session in San Francisco

Dance therapy allows us access to the parts of ourselves that are best expressed through metaphor and poetry. If we use the language of the body to describe our emotions and feelings we automatically lapse into metaphoric speech. Anxiety becomes “my stomach was in knots,” fear morphs into “I felt my heart drop,” and sadness or depression says “every part of me feels heavy.”

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

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.

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