Anxiety in Adults, Pasadena, CA
Generalized anxiety disorders can cause people to struggle through their daily lives. Getting support for anxiety doesn't have to be difficult, though; trainers like Vital Brain Health can help people get the support they need.
If you're struggling with anxiety, you need the help of excellent therapists like those at Vital Brain Health. We focus on providing optimal care without the need for medication.
What is Anxiety?
Anxiety disorders are a series of mental health disorders that can impact a person's life. They interfere with a person's inner peace by causing constant feelings of fear, dread, and a heightened alertness for danger.
At Vital Brain Health, we are dedicated to providing optimal care to each person who visits our practice. We understand the frustrations anxiety and medication management can cause, and we provide optimal therapies that can help you without the need for medication use.
If you're looking to overcome challenges caused by anxiety in your life, schedule an appointment with Vital Brain Health today.
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Common Risk Factors Linked to Anxiety in Adults
Understanding the potential risk factors of anxiety can help you get the support you need. Anxiety is often the result of one of a variety of factors:
Chemical Imbalances
Imbalances in certain neurotransmitters and hormones can cause anxiety and other mental health conditions.
Brain Changes
Increased amygdala activity has been shown to cause higher levels of anxiety.
Genetics
Family history and other genetic factors have been shown to play a role in the development of anxiety in adults.
Environmental Factors
Stress and other environmental factors can cause anxiety.
What symptoms are associated with anxiety?
Symptoms of anxiety can vary in type and severity. Some of the symptoms that benefit from an evaluation at Vital Brain Health include:
- Feelings of panic, fear, dread, and uneasiness
- Feeling on edge or irritable
- Uncontrollable, obsessive thoughts
- Difficulty concentrating
- Restlessness
- Muscle tension
- Difficulty falling or staying asleep
What are the Support Options for Anxiety in Adults?
Vital Brain Health offers different types of support, each serving a different purpose. Some of the support you may be recommended include:
Frequently Asked Questions
Can Vital Brain Health help with anxiety?
Yes, supporting people with anxiety is one of our primary specialties, particularly women with anxiety disorders who represent our largest adult client group. Our Neurofeedback 3.0 integrated multi-modal approach helps optimize brain networks involved in emotional regulation, stress response, and cognitive control for individuals experiencing anxiety. We provide specialized protocols for various anxiety presentations including generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety, and anxiety-related emotional dysregulation in both children and adults with anxiety.
How can Vital Brain Health help with anxiety?
Our protocols for people with anxiety use neurofeedback to help parts of the brain being overactive, emotional, or exhibiting stress responses learn to be calm and coordinate better with cognitive control areas. Through our visual feedback systems, these brain networks learn to communicate on more balanced frequency channels, developing new nerve connections during sleep that lead to reduced worry, better emotional regulation, and improved stress management in daily life for individuals with anxiety disorders.
How do you identify anxiety disorders?
Using our 19-room mansion model, individuals with anxiety typically experience specific communication patterns:
• Emotional processing suite may be stuck on high-alert frequency channels in people with anxiety
• Stress response systems might be over-communicating with other brain areas in individuals with anxiety disorders
• Cognitive control rooms may struggle to regulate emotional responses in people experiencing anxiety
• Executive function areas might have difficulty overriding anxious thoughts in individuals with anxiety
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Micoulaud-Franchi, Jean-Arthur, et al. "EEG Neurofeedback for Anxiety Disorders
and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders: A Blueprint for a Promising Brain-Based Therapy."
Current Psychiatry Reports, vol. 23, no. 12, 2021, pp. 1-15.
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