Panic Disorder Therapy in Iowa City

So many of the clients that have reached out to me for help with their panic have chosen to actively avoid something in their life. This could be something as everyday as going to the grocery store, driving on the interstate, or a call with their manager because they fear rejection or too many questions. To the anxious mind, these avoidances can appear logical, but they aren’t. They are taking your wonderful ability to think, and twisting it every so slightly into one negative rabbit hole after another. After enough of that negativity, one day you find yourself waking up into a reality in which you don’t want to go anywhere, and that it would be far safer to stay safely at home. The problem is, you cannot remember asking for any of this. There was no agreed upon contract. There was only a slow march towards making the world around you as small as possible, so that at least you can feel like you have control over that.

When a panic attack hits, your nervous system usually is experiencing fight or flight. It feels like there is either danger imminent, or, the danger has already arrived and you need to get the hell out of whatever situation is causing that dangerous feeling. Your heart rate spikes, your breathing rapidly increases, and you begin to feel like the room around you is closing in. All of this can be incredibly scary, but the good news is that it is all treatable. All of what I have described can change, and change for the better. Our goal is to return you to a state in which you can live freely again, unburdened by the constant drain panic induces.