Virtual Therapy in CA For Emotional Regulation and Reducing Anxiety
Do you Struggle with Emotional Regulation and Anxiety?
Therapy can provide you with a safe container from which to learn and practice skills to improve your emotional regulation. Self regulation skills can be invaluable for decreasing conflicts in your relationships and in the workplace, for diminishing your anxiety and stress, and for helping you to remain more focused and present.
What is Emotional Regulation and why is it Important?
Emotional regulation consists of two parts-- tolerating feelings without reactivity AND the ability to reflect on how to manage those feelings. Our capacity to self regulate affects our personal well-being as well as the quality of our relationships. For those that have experienced traumas, often times unprocessed feelings can get lodged in the body and be expressed as pain or aches. Developing the tools to process and regulates one's feelings can enhance your health and improve your relationships by helping you be more present, less reactive, and more aware.
How Therapy Can Help You Cope with Anxiety and Emotions
Therapy can help by creating a safe and attuned space to attend to your feelings and concerns, aiding you in increasing your capacity to tolerate difficult feeling states and reflect upon them without reactivity.
I take a holistic approach to evaluating your emotional regulation skills and will address the impact from a psychological, spiritual, and somatic (body) perspective to help you get in alignment. I work with the full range of anxiety symptoms and emotional regulation from mild anxiety, irritation, and intellectualization to debilitating panic attacks, spinning, obsessive thoughts, and compulsive tendencies.
Some issues of emotional regulation we may work on include:
Diminishing negative self-talk
Understanding the connection between anxiety and perfectionism
Learning mindfulness techniques
Developing methods to self-soothe
Learning to slow down and self regulate
understanding your anger and learning techniques to diffuse frustration
Exploring adaptive defenses and coping mechanisms
Impulse control
Sensory regulation
attachment anxiety
If you need coping strategies on how to respond to the ongoing demands in your life, I can be of use. CONTACT ME for a free 15-minute consultation. I can be reached at 310-226-8440 or at lg@lgtherapy.net.
“Dear Lauren, Thank you. Thank you for your consistency, for your boundaries, your compassion, good sense and insight. I’m so appreciative of the space you provided each week for me to focus, let go, release, search, cry, and laugh. But more than that, I am so thankful of the relationship with myself you helped facilitate. Because of our time together, I know myself better and may even like myself more. Thank you again.”
