Anxiety Therapy with EMDR and Brainspotting

What is anxiety therapy?

Anxiety therapy is counseling that helps your mind and body come out of constant fight or flight. With me, it has two parts: practical skills that calm anxiety in the moment, and deeper work with EMDR and Brainspotting on what keeps setting it off.

Your brain can't get out of fight or flight mode using talk therapy alone. Many people come to me after talk therapy helped them up to a point. I pick up where talk therapy leaves off.

How does EMDR help with anxiety?

If certain experiences or patterns keep getting triggered no matter how hard you try to move on, EMDR can help. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing helps process difficult experiences and decrease the emotional response to them.

Think of it as giving your mind a way to reorganize the clutter. We're not erasing the past. We're helping your brain file it away properly, so it no longer hijacks your present and you can respond from today.

I'm Level II trained in EMDR. You can read more about EMDR therapy in Brentwood.

What is Brainspotting?

Brainspotting works with a simple idea: where you look affects how you feel. By using your visual field, it reaches stress and overwhelm that are often beyond words, and helps your nervous system rebalance, so that feeling of constant overdrive can ease.

I'm Level II trained in Brainspotting, and there's more in my article on Brainspotting.

Will I learn skills I can use on my own?

In talk therapy and Trauma Focused CBT, you'll learn practical tools for the moments you feel anxiety building, from deep breathing to reframing a thought before it spirals.

Trauma Focused CBT also helps you notice all or nothing thoughts that leave no room for the gray areas of your life. Once your brain is calm, your thoughts often correct themselves. For a few ideas to start with, read what a trauma therapist can teach you about coping with anxiety.

Is it anxiety, panic or something underneath?

Anxiety and panic often go hand in hand. Panic attacks can bring chest tightness, dizziness and shortness of breath. If that sounds more like you, learn about panic attack therapy or how to tell a panic attack from an anxiety attack.

Sometimes anxiety grows out of older experiences your mind is still protecting you from. If that's part of your story, I also offer trauma therapy and PTSD therapy at the same office.

Anxiety therapy near you

My office is at 103 Continental Place, Suite 204, Brentwood, TN 37027, in Maryland Farms. Each page below has the details for your area.

Anxiety therapy in Brentwood, TN: right here in Maryland Farms, with easy access from I-65 and Old Hickory Boulevard.

Anxiety therapy in Nashville, TN: about ten miles south of downtown Nashville.

Anxiety therapy in Franklin, TN: about ten miles north of Franklin on I-65.

Anxiety therapy in Nolensville, TN: a short drive from Nolensville.

Anxiety therapy in Belle Meade, TN: about eight miles southeast of Belle Meade.

What working together looks like

You are the expert on you. My job is to walk beside you as a guide, meet you where you are, and move forward at a pace you find comfortable.

Weekly sessions work best, and every other week can work well too. Appointments are available Monday to Friday, 8 am to 6 pm.

Sessions are $195. I'm private pay, I can provide a superbill for out-of-network reimbursement, and HSA cards are welcome.

Who you'll be working with

I'm a Licensed Professional Counselor and Mental Health Service Provider in Tennessee, license 5093, and a Nationally Certified Counselor. I earned my MA at Trevecca Nazarene University and my BS at the University of Tennessee. I'm Level II trained in EMDR and Brainspotting and trained in Trauma Focused CBT.

Over ten years in practice, I've walked with hundreds of people. Read more about me.

Questions about anxiety therapy

Change is possible

Reaching out can be the hardest part. Schedule a free consultation, call or text 615-905-6132, or email davesaunderscounseling@gmail.com. I'll get back to you within 2 business days.