Anxiety Counseling in Austin, TX
Regain Control of Your Life
Anxiety can make it feel like your thoughts are racing ahead of you — rehearsing disasters, replaying conversations, never quite letting you rest. Therapy combines self-awareness, practical tools, and real empathy so you can meet each day feeling prepared instead of braced.
4.9★
Average rating in our most recent client survey
15 years
Serving Austin since 2011
4,000+
Clients served
30 therapists
With varied licensure and levels of experience
Recognize the Hidden Strain
Anxiety rarely announces itself. It shows up as tension, avoidance, and a mind that fast-forwards to the worst-case version of everything. Signs we hear about most often:
- Worry that starts before your feet hit the floor
- Muscle tension, jaw clenching, or headaches with no other explanation
- Racing thoughts at bedtime — and 3 a.m. wake-ups
- Avoiding calls, invitations, or decisions to keep the dread down
- Irritability or restlessness that surprises even you
- Feeling fine on the outside while running on fumes inside
Recognize a few of these? Reach out — a short conversation with our team can tell you a lot, with no commitment.
Take Charge Early
Anxiety tends to expand into the space you give it. Early intervention interrupts that arc — before everyday worry hardens into panic, chronic tension, or a shrinking comfort zone. In the first few sessions we map what sets your anxiety off, how it moves through your body and your schedule, and what a realistic plan looks like.
Your first anxiety session, start to finish
No couch clichés, no interrogation. Your therapist asks what brought you in, listens for the pattern underneath — when the worry shows up, what it costs you, what you’ve already tried — and starts sketching a plan with you, not for you.
Most people leave the first session with two things: a sense of relief at finally saying it all out loud, and one concrete tool to try before session two.
Wondering if it’s time? Ask for a call — we’ll tell you honestly what we’d suggest.
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COMING SOONWhat a Panic Attack Is — and Isn’tCOMING SOONWhen Worry Becomes Generalized AnxietyDevelop Coping Tools
You’ll leave therapy with tools, not just insight: breathing techniques that calm a nervous system in real time, grounding practices that work in a grocery store, and cognitive-behavioral skills for catching the worry spiral before it picks up speed.
Every technique is matched to your specific pattern — what works for social anxiety isn’t what works for 3 a.m. dread — and practiced until it holds up under pressure, not just in the therapy room.
Foster Self-Compassion
Anxious minds tend to be harsh minds — the inner critic and the worry loop feed each other. We help you notice that voice, question it, and practice a steadier one, because reshaping how you talk to yourself changes what your nervous system braces for.
Medication, therapy, or both?
It’s one of the most common questions we get, and the honest answer is: it depends on your situation, and it’s your call. Therapy alone helps many people significantly; for others, medication prescribed by a physician or psychiatrist makes the therapy work faster and stick better.
Our therapists don’t prescribe, but we’re glad to coordinate with your prescriber — or point you to one — and we’ll give you our straight read on what we’re seeing, either way.
Want to talk it through? Ask for a call.
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COMING SOONMedication and Therapy: How They Work TogetherCOMING SOONWhy Self-Criticism Feeds AnxietyEmbrace Lasting Change
The goal isn’t a life with zero anxiety — it’s moving from fear-driven reactions to calm, intentional responses. That shift compounds: better sleep, easier decisions, relationships with more room in them. Most clients can feel the difference within the first several weeks.
We work with several insurance plans and offer clear self-pay rates — see Rates & Insurance, or get in touch and we’ll check your coverage before you begin.
The Anxiety Therapy Journey
From first call to calm that holds — here’s the whole arc.
1Reach out
A short, low-pressure conversation about what’s been going on. It takes just a few minutes, and there’s no commitment.
2Get matched
Matcha, our custom matching platform, pairs you with the therapist best suited to your kind of anxiety — because fit is what makes the work go.
3Map the worry
Early sessions trace your anxiety’s pattern — triggers, body signals, what it’s costing you — and turn that into a plan you both believe in.
4Practice tools that travel
Breathing, grounding, and CBT skills rehearsed in session until they work where you actually need them — meetings, traffic, 3 a.m.
5Calm that holds
We track progress together and say so when you’re ready — the summit is a nervous system that recovers on its own.
How We Treat Anxiety
Every anxious mind runs its own pattern, so your therapist draws from several evidence-based approaches and follows your lead.
Mindfulness-based therapy
Noticing anxious thoughts without being run by them — the skill underneath every other skill. Every AMC therapist is also a trained mindfulness teacher.
Cognitive behavioral therapy
The link between thoughts, feelings, and actions — examined honestly, so the worry spiral loses its automatic quality.
Breathing & nervous-system regulation
Techniques that calm the body directly — because you can’t think your way out of a fight-or-flight response, but you can breathe your way down from one.
Gradual, consent-based exposure
For avoidance that’s shrunk your world, we rebuild range one manageable step at a time — at your pace, never as a dare.
Self-compassion practices
Turning down the inner critic that keeps the nervous system braced — reshaping harsh self-talk into something you can actually live with.
EMDR for anxiety with roots
When anxiety traces back to something that happened, EMDR helps the memory lose its charge — paced carefully, always with consent.
Find the right therapist for your anxiety
Choose whichever way feels easier. Scroll down to meet the AMC therapists who treat anxiety and request someone by name.
Or answer a few questions in Matcha, our custom AI-assisted matching tool, and we’ll suggest therapists whose experience and availability may fit your needs.
Rachel Lhamon, LCSW
- Works with
- Age 22+
- Focus
- ADHD, Abandonment, Adoption / Foster Care, Anger
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Insurance
- Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Carelon, Cigna, EHN
Ash Hogle, LPC
- Works with
- Age 12+
- Focus
- ADHD, Abandonment, Anger, Anxiety
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
- Insurance
- Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Carelon, Cigna, Curative
Marla Sanderson, LMFT-S
- Works with
- Age 12+
- Focus
- ADHD, Abandonment, Adoption / Foster Care, Anxiety
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), EMDR
- Insurance
- Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Carelon, Cigna, Curative
Sara Tracy, LPC-A
- Works with
- Age 13+
- Focus
- ADHD, Abandonment, Anxiety, Attachment Issues
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), EMDR
- Insurance
- Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Curative, Private Pay / Self Pay, Sana
Amber Arellano, LMFT
- Works with
- Age 13+
- Focus
- Anxiety, Attachment Issues, Bipolar Disorder, Body Image
- Approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), EMDR
- Insurance
- Private Pay / Self Pay
- Languages
- English, Spanish
Wynden Rogers, LPC-A
- Works with
- Age 19+
- Focus
- ADHD, Anxiety, Asperger / Autism Spectrum, Attachment Issues
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Integrative Approach, Mindfulness-Based
- Insurance
- Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Curative, Private Pay / Self Pay, Sana
- Languages
- English
Craig Lesley, LPC-A
- Works with
- Age 13+
- Focus
- Anxiety, Caregivers, Codependency, Depression
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Insurance
- Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Curative, Private Pay / Self Pay, Sana
- Languages
- English
Jadese Jasper
- Works with
- Age 13+
- Focus
- Anxiety, Depression, Existentialism / Identity, Older Adults / Gerontology
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Integrative Approach, Person-Centered
- Insurance
- Private Pay / Self Pay
- Languages
- English
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What our clients are saying about us
The breathing technique, being gentle to myself, and learning to recognize when I am not living in the present moment, among other coping skills my therapist has been teaching me have helped me tremendously with anxiety. She is easy to talk to, gentle, and listens without judgement. I am so thankful I found her and recommend her to everyone.