Florida Anxiety Therapy with Brittany Davrichachvili
Learn how you can take your life back.
If you feel stuck in life or like your anxiety is becoming so overwhelming that you can no longer live in the moment, I can help you shift through the noise that is holding you back. Anxiety, Social Phobia, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can present when going through difficult life events, loss, trauma and significant changes. Let’s work together to help you find your balance again and live a life of your design. I have an office in Miami, between exits 11 and 9 on the Florida Turnpike for in-person therapy in Miami for Anxiety. I also do online therapy in Florida for Anxiety. Click below to get started.
Therapies and practices used to overcome anxiety related disorders
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT):
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a widely used psychotherapy approach that focuses on the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. This approach aims to help identify and challenge negative or distorted thought patterns and develop healthier ways of thinking and coping with life's challenges. Through structured sessions and exercises, CBT teaches practical skills for managing symptoms of various mental health issues, including anxiety and phobias, promoting long-lasting changes in behavior and mindset.
Exposure Therapy:
Exposure therapy is a type of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) that involves gradually exposure to feared objects, situations, or memories in a controlled and safe environment. The goal is to help confront and overcome fears or traumatic experiences by facing them directly, rather than avoiding them. Through repeated exposure, you learn that fears are manageable and that you can tolerate the associated distress without experiencing the feared consequences. Exposure therapy is highly effective for treating various anxiety disorders, phobias, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), leading to reduced anxiety and improved quality of life.
Schema Therapy:
Schema Therapy is a psychotherapy approach that delves into deeply ingrained patterns, or schemas, that shape how you perceive yourself, others, and the world. It combines elements of cognitive-behavioral, experiential, and psychodynamic therapies to address maladaptive schemas developed in childhood. Schema Therapy aims to identify and modify these schemas, often rooted in early experiences or traumas, through a variety of techniques including cognitive restructuring, emotion-focused interventions, and relational techniques. By fostering self-awareness and promoting adaptive coping strategies, Schema Therapy helps you overcome entrenched patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving, leading to improved emotional well-being and healthier relationships.
Mindfulness:
Mindfulness interventions are used to promote self-awareness, emotional regulation, and psychological well-being. In session I may guide you in mindfulness exercises such as focused breathing, body scans, or mindful movement to help cultivate present-moment awareness and nonjudgmental acceptance of thoughts, feelings, and sensations. By incorporating mindfulness into therapy, you can learn to observe experiences without getting caught up in them, develop greater insight into thought patterns and emotional reactions, and cultivate skills for managing stress, anxiety, and other mental health concerns.
Here is some information on the anxiety disorders I treat most often:
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) 300.02
If you are experiencing Generalized Anxiety Disorder you will have excessive anxiety and worry about various things in your life and this will cause you significant distress. It can be hard to control the worry and you will have some of the following symptoms: restlessness, easily fatigued, difficulty concentrating, irritability, muscle tension, sleep disturbance.
(Adjustment Disorder and Unspecified Anxiety Disorder with similar symptoms)
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) 309.81
If you are experiencing PTSD, you have been exposed to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence in at least one of the following ways: directly experiencing the traumatic event, witnessing the event as it occurred to others, learning that the traumatic event occurred to a someone close to you, or experienced repeated or extreme exposure to aversive details of the traumatic event (first responder in an emergency). One or more of the following symptoms will also be present: recurrent, involuntary and intrusive distressing memories of the trauma, recurrent distressing dreams about the trauma, flashbacks about the trauma, intense distress from exposure to cues that symbolize the trauma. You will usually avoid triggers that remind you of the trauma. You may feel irritable, reckless, hypervigilant, have an exaggerated startle response, have problems with concentration or sleep disturbances.
(Acute Stress Disorder 308.3 with similar symptoms)
Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia) 300.23
Social Anxiety Disorder is defined as having a significant fear or anxiety about one or more social situations in which you are exposed to possible scrutiny by other people. This could be a fear of having a conversation with someone or meeting new people. With this kind of anxiety, you fear that you will embarrass yourself and social situations almost always provoke fear or anxiety. Often times someone with Social Anxiety Disorder will avoid these kinds of situations, even though the fear or anxiety seems to be out of proportion to the context. This can even lead to issues in other areas of your life such as work or school.
Panic Disorder 300.01
Panic Disorder can be described as recurrent unexpected panic attacks and a concern or worry about having panic attacks.
Agoraphobia 300.22
Agoraphobia is a fear or anxiety about certain social situations including using public transportation, being in open spaces or enclosed spaces, standing in a line or a crowd or being outside of the home. With Agoraphobia, you usually avoid these situations as they almost always make you feel this fear or anxiety.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder 300.3
If you have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, you have obsessions, compulsions or both. Obsessions are recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges or images that are unwanted and cause distress. You try to ignore, suppress or neutralize them with another thought or action (compulsion). A compulsion is when you have a repetitive behavior such as hand washing, ordering, checking or mental acts like counting or repeating words that you feel like you have to do in response to an obsession or because of rules that you have for yourself. The behaviors or mental acts are in an attempt to prevent or reduce distress even though they are not connected in a realistic way with what you are trying to neutralize.