Online Therapy for Anxiety
Overcome stressful thoughts. Speak to a therapist specializing in men’s issues.
Anxiety may present as irritability, trouble sleeping, or strained relationships.
You may have some days when you feel fine and other days when you want to bury your head in the sand.
Everyone has stressful days — but if anxiety is holding you back at work or interfering with your ability to enjoy the people and activities you love most, therapy can help.
Momentum is online therapy built for men.
Talking about feelings is great, but we also help you develop real coping mechanisms and actionable plans to get unstuck and take charge of your anxious thoughts. Our licensed therapists are taking clients in Tennessee.
Do I Have Anxiety?
You might have days when you feel nervous about a new situation or worried about the future. Maybe you’re more productive under stress and you need deadlines to get things done. These are normal experiences.
Clinical anxiety is typically defined when your stressful thoughts are persistent, constant, and focused on everyday situations. You might worry about your job, finances, health, family — maybe even politics or the state of the world. Some of these fears are irrational, but you worry about them anyway. It often feels like your mind is buzzing and you just can’t turn it off.
Anxiety in men often shows up in physical symptoms. Some days you’re fine, but at other times you have muscle cramps, stomach aches, or shortness of breath, even when you haven’t worked out. It’s common for men with anxiety to have trouble sleeping or throbbing headaches.
At work, you may have trouble focusing, or you may feel short-tempered around your family and friends. Studies estimate that more than one in ten U.S. men have a diagnosable anxiety disorder. No matter how these symptoms show up in your life, you are not alone.
Why Do I Feel Anxious?
What causes our anxiety isn’t always clear, but often a combination of genetic predispositions, biological factors, social experiences, and stressors in our environment can contribute to the unwanted thoughts, feelings, and body sensations we typically associate with anxiety. Your brain chemistry may, for instance, predispose you toward anxious thoughts, and then a particularly stressful event may trigger your symptoms.
Anxiety can take several forms, including crippling social anxiety, phobias, and panic attacks. Yet many men experience high-functioning anxiety, meaning that they have successful careers and maintain relationships despite their symptoms. On the outside, everything’s fine, but inside, they feel a never-ending barrage of worry and self-doubt.
Many men seeking online therapy for anxiety have recently experienced life changes that seem to have worsened their symptoms. Maybe you have a new boss at work, you recently went through a break-up, or you moved to a new city. All of a sudden, things just seem more stressful than they did a few months ago.
You might not know why you feel anxious, and that’s okay. Therapists like those at Momentum are trained to help you identify the source of your anxiety and figure out solutions that work for you.
Anxiety Treatment Options
Building healthy habits into your daily routines can help with treating anxiety. Aim for 20-30 minutes of physical activity each day, eat whole foods, and try to get a full 7-8 hours of sleep every night. Many men also find that making time for a favorite activity or hobby can turn down the volume of stressful thoughts.
It also helps to talk about it. We’re not just saying that because we’re therapists. Studies continually show the psychological benefits of counseling because they recalibrate your perspective. Acknowledging and voicing your anxious thoughts are often the first steps in mitigating their effects.
Move Forward With Momentum
Momentum offers personalized, measurement-based, online therapy for men. We specialize in treating anxiety and other men’s issues with real, actionable next steps. Every conversation is about you. We’re not here to fix you. We want to equip you with cognitive tools and mechanisms so you can take back control of your thoughts and keep anxiety in check.
We’ll help you track your progress so you have an objective measure of whether or not the therapy techniques are working. The goal isn’t a stress-free life — we all have responsibilities, after all — but you can overcome the negative thoughts that hold you back from pursuing what you love most. So reach out today to start the conversation.
We all need help. Even you.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I support a loved one with anxiety?
Offering non-judgmental, emotional support is a great way to show that you care. Be willing to listen, and understand that your loved one may not always be in the mood to talk about their anxiety. That said, remember to care for yourself too. Therapy could be a great place to work through the often challenging feelings that likely come up for you as you try to get your loved one the help they need.
What are the most common types of anxiety in men?
Men may experience anxiety in a variety of ways. Common clinical diagnoses include generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, and phobias. Many men feel stress responses when they think about their work, relationships, finances, body image, or accomplishments. Anxiety symptoms may occur alongside depression and can be worsened by excessive consumption of alcohol or other substance abuse.
What are men anxious about?
Men can feel anxious about many of the same topics as women — relationships, health, money, and future plans. Generalized anxiety may not have a particular focus. For example, men may feel tense or nervous in everyday situations such as driving a car, grocery shopping, or talking to a coworker. But men disproportionately feel anxiety at the idea of seeking the type of help that might relieve their anxiety, placing them in a uniquely vicious cycle of quiet suffering and help avoidance.
Does anxiety go away on its own?
It’s normal to feel fear when we anticipate situations that we believe will threaten our physical, emotional, or psychological well-being, but when we journey with anxiety, our fear response gets hijacked and we find ourselves almost compulsively ruminating on feared future experiences and then avoiding those feared future experiences. When we avoid experiences, we get the short-term relief of not having to go through what we think will be a painful experience, but we pay for it in the long term, because we’ve reinforced the anxiety-avoidance loop. So the next time we think about a potentially bad experience coming up in the future, we tend to feel even more anxiety and have an even stronger drive to avoid the feared experience. In scenarios like this, anxiety is unlikely to go away on its own, and may even compound on itself and worsen, without some type of intervention like therapy can provide.
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