Anxiety treatment
Anxiety
Personalised anxiety treatment programs that can help you take back control and increase your peace of mind.
Anxiety is very common. In fact, one in six Australians will experience symptoms associated with anxiety. And anecdotally, this number could be much higher.
If you find yourself feeling worried and stressed, and those feelings don’t fade or equalise over time – or if they become overwhelming and make it difficult to cope or manage in your daily life – it could be anxiety.
How do we treat anxiety at The Grass Tree Group?
At The Grass Tree Group we take a multi-disciplinary – or holistic – approach to treating anxiety. We work together with you to help support you with your specific challenges. This might be strategies and tools for coping with intrusive thoughts, visions or imagery, or finding solutions for coping in the day to day.
Our clinicians are highly skilled in the treatment of anxiety and psychiatric advances means that this can be successfully treated in most cases. The techniques they choose will depend on your unique situation, including your symptoms and severity.
Do you have anxiety?
While anxiety is a clinical diagnosis, the below might help you understand when to seek help with our specialists and clinicians. You may feel some or all of these symptoms:
Often worried or afraid
Panicky
Agitated, irritated
Tense or on edge
Feelings of ‘going crazy’
Feelings of being detached from your body
Inability to sleep or sleeping
Sweating
Pounding heart
Pins and needles
Tummy aches and a feeling like you might vomit
Problems concentrating
Our treatment modalities
Treatment approaches provided at our clinic for anxiety can include:
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
Exposure based treatments
Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing (EMDR)
Imagery rescripting
Frequently asked questions
Most people with a diagnosed anxiety disorder can be helped with professional care. However, it can take time and patience to find the right treatment strategies, tools and even medications for an individual’s unique circumstances. That’s why we always tailor all our treatments to each of our patients individually.
The only way to truly know if you have anxiety is to get a diagnosis from an expert therapist. But you can get some insight by understanding that while anxiety is a normal part of life (it’s a biological reaction to perceived danger) when it’s overwhelming, persistent or it interferes with your daily activities, you might have an anxiety disorder.
Anxiety in the normal course of life can be caused by any number of things. But anxiety disorders – those that are overwhelming, persistent or interfere with your daily activities – can actually have a biological basis. In other words, if your mum or dad struggled with anxiety, you might be more inclined to have a similar challenge.
Anxiety disorders can also be triggered by brain chemistry and life events.
Any medications prescribed will be carefully considered for your unique situation. They could include:
- Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), which work by increasing serotonin levels in the brain.
- Serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs), which affect the chemical messages used to communicate between brain cells.
- Tricyclic antidepressants, which work by creating changes in brain chemistry and communication in brain nerve cell circuitry known to regulate mood.
- Benzodiazepines slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the body and have a mild tranquilising effect.
Take control and thrive again
Everybody wants and deserves a happy and fulfilling life. Anxiety can stop you from being able to live that life. But with professional treatment from our compassionate clinicians, you can start to embrace your happy life again.
