Anxiety Therapy
We’re your anxiety experts, and we’re here to help.
Personalized, neuroscience-informed anxiety therapy in San Antonio, or online throughout Texas and Massachusetts.
Anxiety has been in the driver’s seat long enough. It’s time for it to take a back seat.
The mental assault never stops…
The worry…
The fear…
The dread…
The racing thoughts…
It seizes your body, too.
Something happens when you’re ALWAYS on guard against danger. You feel it deep inside as your chest tightens, your heart races, and you struggle to breathe. It sends many to the emergency room because the panic feels like a heart attack!
It disrupts your life. The lack of sleep and exhaustion leave you restless, angry, and irritable. You can’t concentrate…
When you have anxiety, getting through the day is an uphill battle.
We’re here for you.
Limbic OptiMind takes a whole-person, neuroscientific approach to healing anxiety and the trauma that causes it.
We’ll take into account all your strengths, resources, biological and psychological functioning, history, and current life circumstances, to build and implement a plan for healing.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR is totally safe and highly effective… and you don’t have to talk at length about the memory. Unfortunately, traditional talk therapy that has you “relive” the event can traumatize you all over again.
EMDR is a special technique for treating anxiety by getting at the root cause; trauma. It stimulates both sides of your brain to engage the neural networks associated with painful memories. This “reprocesses” the memory and eliminates the disturbance it causes. After EMDR, people feel like they’ve been “Jedi mind-tricked” because the memory is still there, but the pain or disturbance isn’t.
This process also addresses the negative core beliefs and fears associated with the traumatic event. It directly heals the brain structures involved in thought, emotion, and physical reactions.
Somatic Experiencing and Sensorimotor Techniques
Somatic experiencing is a therapy model that uses body-based techniques to address symptoms of anxiety, feeling numb, or detached from your body, people, and surroundings.
Rooted in neuroscience like EMDR, these techniques strengthen the structures in the brain responsible for the mind-body connection.
These techniques give you the ability to sense oncoming panic and physiologically control it before it becomes an attack.
How powerful is that??
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
IFS helps you understand these different parts of yourself instead of fighting against them. You’ll learn why certain parts feel the need to stay in control, anticipate problems, or protect you from uncomfortable emotions.
Here’s the thing: these parts aren’t your enemy. They’re often trying to protect you, even when their methods leave you feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, or stuck…
Through IFS, you can begin to approach these parts with curiosity and compassion rather than frustration or judgment. You’ll learn to understand what they’re afraid of, what they need, and how to respond in a way that doesn’t let anxiety run the show.
Neurofeedback
Neurofeedback is a non-invasive approach that uses real-time information about your brain activity to help your brain and nervous system regulate.
During a session, small sensors are placed on your scalp to measure electrical activity and send feedback signals back to your brain. As your brain activity changes, the feedback changes, optimizing your brain and nervous system so that you can finally find relief.
And, it doesn’t hurt at all. The signal is smaller than the signals your cellphone emits.
Over time, neurofeedback can help support your ability to regulate arousal, manage stress responses, clear out brain fog, and feel less overwhelmed by everyday demands.
You don’t need to know where to start
We will help you find the right therapy approach for you, whether it’s just one of these neuroscience-based approaches or a combination of them.