Anxiety Therapist in Alpharetta, GA
The best way to find out if this approach is for you is to schedule a 15 minute consultation. Depending on your clinician’s availability, this consult may be held over the phone, via video, or in-person.
Meet Your Anxiety Experts
What is Anxiety?
Anxiety is your body’s natural alarm system. It helps you stay alert when facing real dangers. But when anxiety happens too often without any actual threat, it can take over your daily life.
When you feel anxious, your mind and body work together. Worried thoughts trigger physical reactions like a fast heartbeat or trouble breathing. Your mind then sees these body changes as proof that something is wrong, creating a cycle that’s hard to break.
Our goal isn’t to make your anxiety disappear completely. Instead, we help you manage it so it becomes a normal, healthy part of life rather than something that controls you.
Understanding Anxiety Symptoms
Many people have searched “anxiety therapist near me” and discovered the importance of finding support tailored to their needs. Anxiety affects everyone differently – some may feel overwhelming dread, worry about social situations, or fear for their safety. We understand that your experience is unique and real, which is why getting the right help matters.
Anxiety shows up through many symptoms that can impact your daily life:
- Excessive worrying
- Restlessness
- Fatigue
- Difficulty sleeping
- Nightmares
- Panic or fear
- Feeling nervous
- Heart palpitations or a racing heart
- Impaired concentration
- Irritability or anger
Taking the first step to anxiety therapy in Alpharetta, GA can feel overwhelming. It’s an important decision toward improving your mental health and well-being. Therapy provides a safe, supportive space to explore your feelings. You’ll understand your triggers and learn techniques to manage anxiety effectively.
How Anxiety Therapy Works
Anxiety counseling is a collaborative process. You and your therapist work together to understand what triggers your anxiety, identify the patterns that keep it going, and build practical coping skills you can use in your daily life. You’ll practice these skills between sessions so you can handle the situations that used to feel unmanageable.
The length of therapy depends on your specific needs. Some people see improvement quickly, while others benefit from longer-term support to work through deeper patterns. Our mental health professionals use evidence-based practices and tailor treatment to your individual situation, guiding you through the process at a pace that feels safe and sustainable.
Anxiety Disorders We Treat
Anxiety isn’t one-size-fits-all, and neither is treatment. Our Alpharetta, GA anxiety therapists have experience working with a range of anxiety disorders, each of which has its own patterns, triggers, and therapeutic approach.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) involves persistent, excessive worry about everyday things like work, health, family, or finances. The worry feels difficult to control and is often accompanied by physical symptoms like muscle tension, fatigue, and difficulty concentrating. If you find yourself constantly anticipating the worst even when things are going well, GAD may be what’s driving it.
Social Anxiety Disorder
Social Anxiety Disorder goes beyond ordinary shyness. It involves intense fear of being judged, embarrassed, or scrutinized in social or performance situations. This can lead to avoidance of everyday interactions like meetings, phone calls, or social gatherings. Anxiety therapy helps you gradually re-engage with the situations you’ve been avoiding while building confidence in your ability to handle them.
Panic Disorder
Panic Disorder is characterized by sudden, intense panic attacks that can include a racing heart, shortness of breath, chest tightness, dizziness, and a feeling of losing control. Many people develop a fear of the attacks themselves, which can lead to avoidance of places or situations where an attack has happened before. Therapy for panic disorder helps you understand the physical sensations, break the fear cycle, and reduce the frequency and intensity of attacks.
Performance Anxiety
Performance Anxiety affects athletes, executives, public speakers, and professionals in high-pressure roles who experience intense fear or dread tied to moments where they feel they’re being evaluated. It can show up as physical symptoms like a racing heart, nausea, or mental blanking right when you need to be at your best. Therapy for performance anxiety helps you understand the thought patterns driving the fear, build strategies for managing the physical response, and gradually reclaim your ability to show up under pressure without being controlled by it. Our practice has specific experience working with athletes and professionals in performance-related fields.
OCD and Intrusive Thoughts
OCD and Intrusive Thoughts involve unwanted, repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and compulsive behaviors or mental rituals performed to reduce the anxiety those thoughts create. OCD requires specialized treatment, and our team includes therapists trained in Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), the gold-standard therapy for OCD. Learn more about our OCD treatment approach.
Perfectionism and People-Pleasing
Perfectionism and People-Pleasing are patterns that often exist alongside anxiety disorders. The relentless pressure to meet impossible standards or the need to keep everyone else happy can fuel chronic stress, burnout, and a deep sense of never being enough. Anxiety counseling helps you identify where these patterns come from, challenge the beliefs that sustain them, and build a healthier relationship with your own expectations.
Our Treatment Approaches
Effective anxiety therapy is grounded in evidence-based methods. Our therapists draw from several proven approaches and tailor the combination to your specific needs.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is one of the most widely researched and effective treatments for anxiety disorders. CBT helps you identify the thought patterns and behaviors that maintain your anxiety, then teaches you practical strategies to change them. It’s structured, skills-based, and focused on giving you tools you can use outside of the therapy room.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) takes a different angle. Rather than trying to eliminate anxious thoughts, ACT helps you change your relationship to them. You learn to observe thoughts without getting hooked by them and to take action based on your values even when anxiety is present. ACT can be especially helpful for people who have spent years trying to control or avoid their anxiety and are looking for a different path forward.
- Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) is the gold-standard treatment for OCD and is also effective for specific phobias, social anxiety, and panic disorder. ERP involves gradually facing feared situations while resisting the avoidance or compulsive behavior that normally follows. Over time, your brain learns that the anxiety passes on its own and that the feared outcome doesn’t happen.
EMDR Therapy is used when anxiety is connected to trauma or distressing past experiences. EMDR helps your brain reprocess those memories so they carry less emotional weight.
Your therapist may use one approach or a combination depending on what’s driving your anxiety. The goal is always the same: to help you feel more grounded, more capable, and less controlled by fear.
Who Benefits from Anxiety Therapy?
Anxiety doesn’t discriminate, but it does show up differently depending on your age, your life circumstances, and the pressures you’re managing. Our anxiety therapists in Alpharetta, GA work with a wide range of clients.
- Adults dealing with generalized worry, work stress, relationship anxiety, or the slow accumulation of pressure that eventually becomes unmanageable. Many of our adult clients are high-functioning people who look like they have it together on the outside but are quietly struggling with constant anxiety, perfectionism, or the fear that they’re falling behind.
- Teens navigating academic pressure, social anxiety, school avoidance, or the emotional intensity of adolescence. Anxiety in teenagers can look like irritability, withdrawal, physical complaints, or academic decline. Our therapists create a safe space where teens can learn to understand and manage what they’re feeling.
- College students facing the transition to independence, higher academic demands, and the social pressures of campus life. The loss of structure and familiar support systems can trigger or intensify anxiety in young adults who may have managed fine in high school.
- Couples where one or both partners are affected by anxiety. Anxiety can strain communication, create conflict, and make it difficult to feel connected. Couples therapy can address how anxiety shows up in the relationship and give both partners tools to support each other.
- Professionals experiencing burnout, performance anxiety, or the pressure of leadership. We offer career coaching and executive coaching alongside anxiety counseling for clients who want targeted support in their work lives
The length of therapy depends on your specific needs. Some people see improvement quickly, while others benefit from longer-term support to work through deeper patterns. Our mental health professionals use evidence-based practices and tailor treatment to your individual situation, guiding you through the process at a pace that feels safe and sustainable.
Anxiety and Related Conditions
Anxiety rarely exists in a vacuum. It’s common for anxiety to show up alongside other mental health concerns, and addressing only one without considering the others often leads to incomplete results.
Many of our clients are also dealing with depression, which frequently co-occurs with anxiety. The two conditions can feed each other: anxiety keeps you on edge, depression drains your energy, and the combination makes it hard to take the steps that would help. Others are managing grief and loss, trauma, ADHD, disordered eating, or the stress of navigating a major life transition like divorce, career change, or becoming a parent.
Our therapists are trained to assess and treat the full picture. If anxiety is part of a more complex mental health profile, your treatment plan will reflect that. You don’t have to sort it all out before you call. That’s what the first few sessions are for.
Choose Kellen Mental Health for Expert Anxiety Care
At Kellen Mental Health, we understand that seeking help for anxiety takes courage. Our team of experienced mental health professionals creates a safe, welcoming space. You can explore your thoughts and feelings without judgment.
Whether you need help with stress management or support during major life transitions, we’re here to help. We’ll help you build the skills you need to thrive.
We’re here to support you every step of the way. Our anxiety counseling services in Alpharetta, GA help you develop practical tools to manage worry and build confidence. Don’t let anxiety control your life any longer.
Contact Kellen Mental Health today to take the first step toward feeling calmer and more confident.
Counseling
Individual Counseling Session Rates
Sessions are available in 45- or 60-minute formats and can be conducted either in person or via video. While 60-minute sessions are recommended—especially for the first appointment—they are not required unless deemed necessary by the clinician.
Initially, appointments are typically scheduled weekly or every other week. As symptoms improve and progress toward goals becomes more consistent, sessions can be spaced out to every 3–4 weeks.
45 minute appointments: $160 – $180 per session
60 minute appointments: $215 – $240 per session
Individual counseling rate varies per clinician. Please see clinician bios for more information regarding specialties and rates.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Do you accept my insurance?
Managed care companies were created to “manage” and contain escalating health care costs. Their bottom line is to reduce costs and raise profits; it is not to increase the quality…
Do you work with college students and young adults (stress, anxiety, transitions)?
Yes. We provide counseling for college students and young adults navigating stress, anxiety, and life transitions. You can meet with us in person or through secure online therapy and virtual…
What forms of payment do you accept? Can I use my HSA/FSA card?
Cash, credit cards (Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express), and health savings (HSA) or flex spending account (FSA) cards that have a major credit card logo on it are all accepted…
What is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and who is it for?
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based counseling approach that helps you notice unhelpful thoughts and habits, then practice new ways to respond. We often use CBT for anxiety and…
What is your cancellation policy?
If you need to cancel or change your appointment, we ask you to inform your provider at least 24 hours in advance of your scheduled session start time. Your full…