What can be signs that I have anxiety?
People who need online anxiety treatment often experience both psychological and physical symptoms.
Psychological symptoms:
- Racing thoughts
- Excessive worry
- Restlessness
- Irritability
- Difficulty concentrating
- Avoidance
- Trouble sleeping
- Finding it hard to relax
- Hopelessness
Physical symptoms:
- Heart palpitations
- Sweating
- Trembling
- Tiredness
- Tension
- Breathing difficulties
- Tightness in the chest
Many people choose online anxiety treatment when the symptoms start to affect their everyday life. Anxiety is very common, and there is no reason to feel ashamed. Online anxiety treatment lets you get professional and effective help in a discreet setting.
How does anxiety feel?
Anxiety can feel overwhelming and all-consuming. Many people who seek online anxiety treatment describe a constant unease in the body, as if everything inside is buzzing all the time. It can feel as if you can't catch your breath, your heart is racing, and your body is permanently on high alert.
For some, the world feels unreal or distant, as if they are not quite present. Thoughts can go round in circles, and it can feel impossible to find calm. Many experience a pervasive sense of hopelessness and a fear that the anxiety will never go away. Even though anxiety can feel all-consuming, online anxiety treatment shows that it is possible to get help and find your way to more calm and security.
Online anxiety treatment with me
With me, you get specialised online anxiety treatment that helps you create calm and security in your everyday life. My online anxiety treatment combines body-based exercises, emotional work and thinking strategies, which together help to quieten the anxiety and strengthen your nervous system.
For some people, the body-based approach works best, while others see the biggest change through working with feelings or thoughts. In my online anxiety treatment, we explore together what triggers and maintains your anxiety, which is often connected to past experiences and negative patterns. Through online therapy, you get concrete tools to live a calmer life. Sessions are held in English, by video, wherever you live in Denmark.
Why does anxiety happen?
Anxiety often arises in a negative feedback loop, where the fear of the anxiety itself makes it stronger. Many people who start online anxiety treatment find that the anxiety grows because the body is constantly on guard.
The mind starts circling around why the anxiety appeared, which creates racing thoughts and keeps the anxiety going. In my online anxiety treatment, we work on breaking this cycle and creating a more positive feedback loop. Instead of fearing the anxiety, you learn to understand the need that lies behind it, so you can respond to yourself in a more constructive and caring way. You can read more about anxiety on the Danish public health portal sundhed.dk (in Danish).
Is anxiety an illness?
No, anxiety is not an illness, but a natural part of the alarm system we are born with. Many people who seek online anxiety treatment discover that anxiety only becomes a problem when the alarm system has been overactive for a long time, and that it can then develop into an anxiety disorder.
Even though anxiety can feel dangerous, it is often an overreaction from the nervous system: a false alarm that sets off a powerful response. In treatment online, we work in particular with the "fear of fear", because the fear of feeling anxious is often one of the biggest factors that keeps anxiety going.
Benefits of online anxiety treatment
Treatment online lets you get professional help in a flexible and manageable way. You can stay in your own safe surroundings, with no travel and no extra strain on an already busy everyday life.
Online anxiety treatment can be adapted to your needs and take place at times that suit you, including outside normal working hours. You only spend the time the session itself lasts, and you can often get started quickly.
It takes very little to start online anxiety treatment: just a quiet place and internet access on a computer, tablet or phone.
What my clients say
I came to Marlene with one central question I wanted to find an answer to. For me, the therapy became a really lovely journey of learning, where I not only got more clarity about my situation, but also had the chance to look deep into myself and reflect on my own patterns and core conflicts. Marlene is good at holding on to the essential questions and feelings, and at supporting and nudging me with care when needed.
Marlene is committed and empathetic, and creates a safe space where it is easy to share, especially because she invests herself in the conversation too. I was very glad to have a course of therapy with Marlene, and I would definitely recommend it to others, and use it again myself if I ever needed to.
We are so incredibly glad to be in therapy with you, and from session to session we can feel how we are changing for the better, both individually and together. You are wonderfully skilled at guiding the conversation and the space between us. We want you to know that.
Couples therapy has helped us in different ways. I have come to know T’s motives in a different way from what I assumed before. T has learned to listen better than before, and not necessarily to look for solutions, but simply to listen.
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