in St. Louis, Missouri
Anxiety Therapy
You’re searching for an anxiety therapist in St. Louis, but maybe you’re wondering—do I really need therapy for this? Let’s talk it through.
Our therapists care about good outcomes, and get them consistently!
91% of our clients see improvements, with 82% achieving their goals within 12 sessions!
Anxiety can be overwhelming.
Anxiety is making it hard to focus, sleep, or even enjoy the things you used to love. Maybe your mind won’t stop racing, or you feel on edge all the time. Whether your anxiety is a daily struggle or something that flares up in stressful moments, you don’t have to figure it out alone.
Anxiety can look like perfectionism, like stress, like anger management, like separation issues - and regardless of how it looks, it’s getting in the way of everything else.
At Compassionate Counseling St. Louis, our anxiety therapists know that anxiety can present in a lot of different ways across the spectrum of ages we work with, from separation anxiety in little three year olds, to you having a panic attack on the first day of graduate school.
Our highly specialized counselors and social workers tailor our interventions to you, wether you’re a parent worried about anger management with your 8 year old, perfectionism and burnout in your academically gifted teen, an overwhelmed college student, or a young adult figuring out if you’re really living the life you want.
Our expert anxiety therapists will help you build skills to manage your anxiety, however it looks.
Our expert anxiety therapists will help you build the skills you need to manage anxiety—whatever that looks like for you, and whether that’s in person or online.
At Compassionate Counseling St. Louis, we know that anxiety (and the anger or stress that can come with it) doesn’t show up the same way for everyone. That’s why we take a personalized, outcomes-focused approach, tailoring each session to your specific needs. Our team is made up of incredible therapists who specialize in working with kids, teens, emerging adults, and parents—helping you not just understand your anxiety, but actually learn how to handle it.
Finding the right therapist can feel overwhelming, but you don’t have to figure it out alone. That’s why we offer a free phone consultation—to talk through what’s going on, what we recommend, and which therapist is the best fit for you.
Let’s get started.
The Process:
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We use CBT techniques to explore how anxiety impacts thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
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We dig in to what else might be going on underneath the surface, because anxiety can co-occur with lots of things.
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We help you or your child recognize what triggers the big anxiety responses so that we can build a targeted plan to handle it.
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You have the evidence-based skills you need to move forward, leaving anxiety behind.
Getting Started With Anxiety Therapy in St. Louis: Next Steps
You don’t have to try and solve this on your own.
Your anxiety is solvable! We can build tools, come up with intervention plans, and get you and your anxiety on track.
We can’t change the fact that you have anxiety.
But we can change how your brain holds on to it, and help your anxiety work with you instead of getting in your way.
Schedule your free phone consultation today to talk more about anxiety therapy in St. Louis at Compassionate Counseling St. Louis.
Frequently Asked Questions for Anxiety Therapy in St. Louis
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The best type of therapy, or therapy modality, is the kind that is tailored to you.
To get nitty gritty, at Compassionate Counseling St. Louis, our therapists and counselors incorporate play therapy interventions, art therapy, trauma-focused therapy when needed, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
And to ensure that we’re tailoring our approach to what you really need, and that things are actually getting better, our therapists use feedback informed treatment to track your outcome scores, along with your session rating - meaning you get to let us know how we did as your therapist and how we can improve.
We incorporate that feedback each and every session to ensure that things are actually getting better - and if they’re not, we can change up our approach, try a new activity, or even refer you to another specialist when we’re simply not the best fit.
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Coping with overwhelming emotions is a crucial part of managing anxiety and anxiety-driven anger. We incorporate relaxation skills into most sessions, and we have an in depth resource list full of awesome coping strategies. Our three favorites?
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As therapists and counselors, we may be biased… but, yeah! We feel like therapy can really make an impact on your anxiety. That’s why you’re here, right?
Anxiety can lead to physical reactions, like muscle tension, increased heart rate, and headaches or stomach aches. It can also lead to behavioral concerns, like constantly getting into trouble at school, being really clingy, feeling really nervous about new situations.
Kids and teens with anxiety often feel like there’s something wrong with them, or even that they’re a bad kid. Parents feel like they’re at the end of their rope and they don’t know what to do next.
Anxiety therapy can teach you and your child strategies for managing emotions, solving problems, releasing stress and tension - and coming up with a real plan to move forward.
So, let’s get started with a free phone consult and talk more.
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CBT is the gold standard for anxiety therapy, and is incredibly well researched. All of our therapists use the foundation of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to build up our approach in a way that’s 100% tailored to you or your child. We find that learning about the cognitive triangle in particular - the CBT concept that shows how your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors all impact one another - really can empower you to recognize that change is possible. You can tell yourself something else, or choose a relaxation strategy, or find a healthy behavior, and by doing so you allow your anxiety to take a back seat, rather than feeling like your anxiety is in charge of you.
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When it comes to anxiety therapy, finding the right fit is crucial. You want to ensure you’re working with an anxiety specialist, not just a therapist or counselor who says they’re familiar with it. Anxiety can present in tricky ways, and can even mask itself as an anger management issue, or perfectionism that’s actually toxic. That’s why it’s so important to ask your therapist before you book - how do you assess for anxiety? What is your favorite way to work with it? How do you track outcomes to make sure things are getting better? All questions we’re happy to answer during our free initial phone consultation!
Spotlight on:
Molly Shaffer
MA, LPC
Molly is our Senior Therapist, who especially loves working with anxious, angry kids and teens and has specialized experience in trauma focused therapies.
Get started with a free consultation
Schedule a free 15 minute phone consultation to talk further about anxiety therapy in St. Louis. We’ll talk about what’s going on with your and/or your child or teen, how we would approach it, and immediate next steps you can take.