
MIDPOINT COUNSELING ARTICLES
Targeting Issues of Anxiety.
Category: Anxiety
Discover how role models and personal values can help you face anxiety with strength, clarity, and a deeper sense of purpose.
Learn the difference between vigilance, anxiety, and fear—and how understanding each can help you manage emotional responses more effectively.
Anxiety can contain value, even when it's hard to see. Learn how anxiety can be useful as a signal that guides risk assessment, goal achievement, and personal values.
Worry can often feel productive, but it mostly leaves us stressed and overwhelmed. This guide explores why we worry, how it differs from problem-solving, and ways to break the cycle.
Understand the symptoms, causes, and treatment of generalized anxiety disorder—and learn how therapy can help you stop chronic worry and regain balance.
Learn how specific phobias develop, how they differ from normal fear, and how therapy can help you overcome avoidance and regain confidence.
Struggling with social anxiety? Learn why it happens, how it holds you back, and how therapy can help you feel more confident and in control.
Understand the symptoms, causes, and treatment of panic disorder—and learn how therapy can help you regain control, reduce fear, and build resilience.
Learn what obsessive-compulsive disorder is, how it develops, and how evidence-based treatments like ERP can help you break free from intrusive thoughts and rituals.
Anxiety spirals often persist because of the very strategies we use to escape them. This article explains how avoidance maintains anxiety and offers a counterintuitive approach to break the cycle through tolerance, exposure, and new learning.