Questions People Ask First
Your life looks fine. Nothing is wrong. And yet your chest is tight and your mind will not settle. That is confusing, and it is more common than you think.
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Anxiety is your nervous system's alarm. Sometimes it goes off because of a real threat. Often it goes off because it has learned to stay on guard, after a stressful season, a hard childhood, a trauma, or years of pushing through.
When the outside finally calms down, the inside does not always get the message. Some people notice anxiety most when they slow down, on vacation, on a quiet weekend, or right before sleep.
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Perfectionism and the fear of letting people down. Unprocessed stress or grief. Physical factors like poor sleep, caffeine, and hormonal shifts, including pregnancy and postpartum. And the habit of scanning for what could go wrong, which can feel like being responsible.
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Anxiety is Guiding Hope's primary specialty. Therapy can help you understand your particular pattern, calm your body with practical skills, and challenge the thoughts that keep the alarm ringing.
It is worth a medical check too, to rule out physical causes. Then therapy can give you the tools medicine alone often does not.
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Teens & AdultsWhole-person support shaped by compassion, collaboration, and practical hope.
Stress · Anxiety · Depression · Life Transitions · Trauma
Evening and weekend availability
Practicing under the supervision of Dr. Gerald Pennie, PhD, LPC-S.
AdultsSupport for the pressure beneath achievement and the transitions of motherhood.
Pregnancy & Postpartum · High Functioning Anxiety · High-Achieving African American Women · Grief & Loss · Trauma · Depression
Practicing under the supervision of Dr. Desiree L. Stephens, LPC-S.
Teens & AdultsAffirming, accessible therapy in spoken English and fluent ASL.
LGBTQIA+ · Neurodivergent · Anxiety · ASL · Deaf & Hard of Hearing · Trauma · Depression · Relationships
Daytime, evening, and weekend availability
Practicing under the supervision of Dr. Bernadette H. Solórzano, PsyD, LPC-S.
Common Questions
Anxiety can continue even when life looks calm, especially after prolonged stress or difficult experiences. Therapy can help you understand the pattern and learn ways to respond to it.
Guiding Hope is in network with Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and UnitedHealthcare. Coverage varies by plan, and superbills are available for out-of-network reimbursement.
You share a little about what is bringing you in, ask any practical questions, and talk through which clinician may fit. It is a conversation, not a commitment.
Please call 911 if you are in immediate danger, or call or text 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. Guiding Hope offers scheduled outpatient therapy and is not an emergency service.
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