Anxiety Therapist in Ellicott City, MD
You Can Stop Living in Constant Worry
Anxiety can take over quietly.
The constant worry. The tight chest. The racing thoughts that won’t shut off, even when you’re exhausted. You might look like you’re holding it together on the outside, while inside you’re always bracing for the next wave.
This isn’t a personal weakness. It’s your nervous system stuck in overdrive. And it’s treatable.
We’re here to help you calm the noise, regain control, and start feeling steady again.
How the Right Anxiety Therapy Puts You Back in Control
Anxiety therapy is about helping you feel calmer, more grounded, and more in control, not just in theory, but in your everyday life. With the right anxiety therapist by your side, meaningful changes become possible in how you think, feel, and respond to stress.
Working with an anxiety therapist can help you:
Reduce chronic worry, fear, and mental overactivity: Address nonstop “what if” thinking, rumination, and worst-case spirals.
Decrease avoidance and regain confidence: Feel more capable of facing situations that anxiety has been controlling or limiting.
Calm physical symptoms of anxiety and panic: Including tight chest, shortness of breath, restlessness, dizziness, and muscle tension.
Interrupt anxious thought loops before they escalate: Learn how to recognize early warning signs and regain control sooner.
Regulate your nervous system under stress: Build skills that help your body shift out of fight-or-flight and into a calmer state.
Develop practical tools for long-term anxiety management: Create strategies you can rely on to prevent anxiety from running your life again.
Professional Anxiety Therapy Services in Ellicott City, MD
Anxiety counseling is focused, evidence-based care designed to help you calm your nervous system, quiet relentless worry, and feel more in control of your life. It’s not about “thinking positive” or pushing through fear. It’s about understanding what’s driving your anxiety and learning how to respond differently, both mentally and physically.
Our clinicians use proven approaches like Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), mindfulness-based strategies, humanistic therapy, Solution-Focused work, and integrative techniques to help you manage worry, panic, and avoidance. Care is always tailored to your specific symptoms and goals.
When appropriate, anxiety counseling may also include psychiatric evaluation and thoughtful medication management, so treatment addresses both the psychological and biological aspects of anxiety.
This is anxiety treatment that works, guided by experience and clinical skill.
TMS: Support Beyond Traditional Anxiety Treatment
When anxiety feels stuck on high alert—constant worry, tension, or panic that won’t ease—therapy and medication don’t always go far enough. In those cases, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) can offer another path forward.
TMS is a non-invasive, drug-free treatment that uses gentle magnetic pulses to activate areas of the brain involved in emotional regulation. Instead of affecting your whole system like medication, TMS works directly at the brain level to help calm overactive anxiety circuits.
If anxiety hasn’t responded fully to counseling or medication, TMS may be a thoughtful next step. We’ll help you understand how it works and whether it fits your needs.
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Meet Anxiety Therapists Focused on Real Relief
Our anxiety therapists know how frustrating it is to be told “this is just anxiety” and handed a standard plan that doesn’t quite fit. We don’t work that way.
We take the time to understand your anxiety—how it shows up in your body, what sets it off, what you’ve already tried, and what you actually want to change. From there, we build a treatment plan tailored to you, not a diagnosis.
Your care may include talk therapy, medication support, or a thoughtful combination of approaches. And as you start to feel better, your plan evolves with you, so treatment stays focused, effective, and grounded in what genuinely helps you feel calmer, steadier, and more in control.
Anxiety Counseling for When “Just Managing” Isn’t Enough
Anxiety doesn’t have to be something you quietly manage for the rest of your life. If worry, tension, or constant overthinking has become your baseline, it’s a sign that your system needs real support, not more effort.
Our anxiety therapists help you move beyond survival and into steadiness. With the right care, your mind can slow down, your body can settle, and your life can start to feel more open again.
You deserve more than just getting through the day.
FAQs
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If anxiety is affecting your daily life, relationships, sleep, or ability to focus, or if you feel constantly overwhelmed by worry, panic attacks, or intrusive thoughts, therapy can help. Many people seek anxiety counseling when coping mechanisms stop working, stress feels constant, or anxiety begins shaping decisions. You don’t have to be in crisis to benefit from treatment.
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We specialize in treating a wide range of anxiety disorders, including generalized anxiety, panic attacks, anxiety related to trauma, grief and loss, attachment concerns, chronic stress, and anxiety connected to relationship issues. Our clinicians are highly experienced in helping clients reduce anxiety and build resilience.
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Sessions are collaborative, supportive, and non-judgmental. You may work with a licensed clinical counselor or psychiatrist, depending on your needs. Sessions focus on understanding your anxiety, learning cognitive and mindfulness-based coping mechanisms, and developing a treatment plan tailored to your unique needs. Psychiatry sessions may also include medication support as part of comprehensive care.
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We offer both in-person therapy and online therapy, including secure video sessions. Online therapy allows you to receive support from the comfort of your home, making it easier to fit care into your life while still receiving high-quality mental health services.
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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive treatment that works at the brain level. Research shows TMS can help reduce anxiety, especially when anxiety overlaps with depression or hasn’t fully responded to therapy or medication. TMS can be integrated into your overall treatment protocol.
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TMS is covered by most insurance plans when clinical criteria are met. A typical course includes 36 sessions with one session lasting between 19 and 37 minutes. Our team helps verify coverage and determine whether TMS fits your mental health and health needs.
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Yes. We accept a range of insurance plans, including Medicare, Medicaid, CareFirst, Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS), Aetna, Humana, and Cigna. Our team will help you understand your benefits, coverage, and any out-of-pocket costs before you begin, so there are no surprises. Our goal is to make accessing quality mental health care as smooth and stress-free as possible.
Unburden Your Mind: Rediscover Your Joy
The NeuroStar Advanced Therapy System is indicated for the treatment of depressive episodes and for decreasing anxiety symptoms for those who may exhibit comorbid anxiety symptoms in adult patients suffering from Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and who failed to achieve satisfactory improvement from previous antidepressant medication treatment in the current episode. The NeuroStar Advanced Therapy system is intended to be used as an adjunct for the treatment of adult patients suffering from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). NeuroStar Advanced Therapy is only available by prescription. A doctor can help decide if NeuroStar Advanced Therapy is right for you. Patients’ results may vary.
The most common side effect is pain or discomfort at or near the treatment site. These events are transient; they occur during the TMS treatment course and do not occur for most patients after the first week of treatment. There is a rare risk of seizure associated with the use of TMS therapy (<0.1% per patient). Visit neurostar.com for full safety and prescribing information.
CLINICAL & ACADEMIC REFERENCES
Carpenter LL, et al. (2012). Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) for Major Depression: A Multisite, Naturalistic, Observational Study of Acute Treatment Outcomes in Clinical Practice. Depression and Anxiety, 29(7):587-596. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2268934
George MS, et al. (2010). Daily Left Prefrontal Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Therapy for Major Depressive Disorder: A Sham-Controlled Randomized Trial. Arch Gen Psychiatry, 67(5):507-516. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20439832
Dunner DL, et al. (2014). A Multisite, Naturalistic, Observational Study of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) for Patients with Pharmacoresistant Major Depressive Disorder: Durability of Benefit Over a 1-Year Follow-Up Period. J Clin Psychiatry. 75(12):1394-1401. www. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25271871
O’Reardon JP, et al. (2007). Efficacy and Safety of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in the Acute Treatment of Major Depression: A Multisite Randomized Controlled Trial. Biol Psychiatry, 62(11):1208-1216. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17573044