Anxiety Therapy
When anxiety is running your life
In the Washington DC metro area anxiety often hides behind performance. You answer emails, show up for meetings, manage the household, and still feel like you are one bad day away from everything coming apart.
Anxiety can look like overthinking every decision, replaying conversations at night, checking work for the fifth time, or feeling your heart race on the way to a meeting that should not matter this much. It can also look like quiet avoidance that starts to shrink your life.
Insight provides individualized therapy for busy lives. Our team brings clinical depth to anxiety treatment, with therapists, psychiatrists, and psychologists working in one practice to treat all of your mental health needs.
Do you recognize yourself in any of these?
Clients often arrive already “functioning” on paper but relate strongly to scenes like these:
You are productive all day, then lie awake replaying everything you said, should have said, or might have forgotten
You avoid certain meetings, social events, or conversations because you cannot stop thinking about how you will be judged
You have recurring panic symptoms: racing heart, shortness of breath, chest tightness, or dizziness that seem to come out of nowhere
You spend hours scanning your body or searching for symptoms, convinced something serious has been missed
You have mental rituals, reassurance seeking, or checking behaviors you hide from others and cannot easily stop
You plan conversations in your head repeatedly, then say nothing because it never feels “quite right”
If any of this is familiar, anxiety could be shaping your decisions, relationships, and health. Treatment is about changing that pattern entirely.
Types of anxiety we treat
Our first task is to define what kind of anxiety you are dealing with and how it interacts with your mood, trauma, relationships, and work. Anxiety is not one condition. We routinely help:
- Generalized anxiety with chronic worry and physical tension
- Social anxiety related to judgment, visibility, or performance
- Panic attacks and fear of having future episodes
- Obsessive and intrusive thoughts, with or without visible compulsions
- Health anxiety and constant monitoring of symptoms
- Work and performance anxiety, including perfectionism that is no longer useful
- Phobias that interfere with travel, medical care, or key responsibilities
- Trauma related anxiety and hyperarousal
- Anxiety tied to substance use, sex, pornography, gambling, or other compulsive behaviors
on your daily decisions.
Anxiety Treatment at Insight
Anxiety treatment starts with an evaluation to map symptoms, triggers, history, and what has or has not worked in past treatment. We also screen for common conditions that can mimic or compound anxiety, including depression, bipolar conditions, OCD, ADHD, trauma, and substance use.
We use evidence-based approaches, including cognitive behavioral work, dialectical behavioral therapy, psychiatry, exposure based strategies where appropriate, mindfulness, and skill-focused sessions that translate directly into your day to day routines. Your clinician will tailor the treatment to your needs.
Integrated care for the way life is
Clinical insight and a full spectrum of therapies work together to help you feel better. At Insight that means:
- A single practice for medication, therapy, and testing
- Multiple specialties working in sync so you are not translating your story from office to office
- Treatment grounded in evidence and informed by real week to week client work
- Expert speakers and educators who also do the clinical work with you
Therapy that lifts the weight you carry is not abstract. For anxiety, that can mean fewer crises, less mental noise, and more decisions made for reasons other than fear. Contact our office to schedule an appointment for anxiety treatment with our team.