Short answer: Generalized anxiety involves excessive or hard-to-control worry across multiple areas of life, often along with tension, restlessness, difficulty concentrating, sleep changes, or feeling on edge. Therapy can help you respond to worry and uncertainty while reconnecting with your values.
Common signs of Generalized Anxiety
- Persistent worry across several areas of life
- Difficulty controlling or turning down worry
- Restlessness, tension, irritability, or feeling on edge
- Trouble concentrating or sleeping
- Avoidance, overplanning, checking, or repeated reassurance-seeking
What can generalized anxiety feel like?
Generalized anxiety can feel like a constant stream of “what if” questions about health, work, family, finances, relationships, or everyday responsibilities. Worry may seem like problem-solving, but it often becomes repetitive and exhausting without creating lasting confidence.
How can therapy help with generalized anxiety?
Treatment may focus on worry, avoidance, reassurance-seeking, perfectionism, intolerance of uncertainty, and the ways anxiety narrows your choices. Depending on your needs, your clinician may discuss ACT, exposure-based strategies, ERP-informed work, I-CBT, or other evidence-based approaches.
Generalized anxiety and OCD
Generalized anxiety and OCD can both involve worry and uncertainty, but OCD typically includes obsessions and compulsions that maintain a specific cycle. Some people experience both. A careful assessment can help shape treatment around the patterns that are actually affecting your life.
Generalized anxiety counseling in Arizona
BrainBody OCD Counseling offers in-person sessions in Scottsdale and secure online counseling throughout Arizona when clinically appropriate. A consultation is a chance to discuss your worry patterns, goals, and questions about treatment before choosing next steps.
Explore BrainBody OCD Counseling treatment options
BrainBody OCD Counseling may use specialized approaches such as ERP, ACT, and I-CBT depending on your symptoms, goals, and treatment plan. Learn more about the options below.