Hey everyone. I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist, thanks for checking out my vlog today. I'm going to be providing some psycho education about the various types of anxiety disorders because anxiety can manifest differently in different people. So it's helpful to kind of be able to differentiate between them.

Hey guys, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist and thanks for checking out my vlog. Um sorry I was mia last week my son had surgery and I was and still am a bit under the weather. So I was trying to practice what I preach, so to speak and prioritize what was most important.

Hey guys, I'm Kristen Jacobsen and welcome to the anxiety therapist vlog. Today, I'm going to be talking about a couple of concepts from a recent book that I've read by author Mark Manson and he talks a lot about our perception of happiness. So a lot of people think that happiness means that we don't have problems in our lives and um social media does a really great job of leading us to believe that everyone else has a happier life than us, right?

Hey everyone, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist and today I'm going to be discussing negativity bias and I'll start just by kind of defining what this is and basically our brains are built to respond to negative stimuli more so than positive stimuli. This isn't necessarily specific to people who experience anxiety, but it can be exacerbated in people who experience anxiety because you're already sort of prone to that negative mystic thinking.

Hi everyone, I’m Kristen, the anxiety therapist and today I'm going to be talking about why it's so difficult to make changes. This is especially true for people who struggle with anxiety because of the uncertainty. So that alone is such a huge component of difficulty in making change. We've all tried to make a change at some point in our lives, right, whether it's implementing a new habit or behavior or maybe stopping something that we recognize as being unhealthy or unproductive and we get stuck.

Hey I'm Kristen the anxiety therapist and today I'm going to be talking about valid reasons to call out of work or take some PTO um this directly correlates with anxiety and burnout and I think we sort of live in this grind culture where we really tend to value people who work at all hours of the night and um that's just not healthy because it leads to longer term problems.

Hey, I'm Kristen the anxiety therapist and today's video is going to be about ants, which are automatic negative thoughts. Now, I think we've all experienced these at some point in our lives and it's actually um quite normal for humans to have their attention gravitate toward negative things versus positive. But the problem arises when these ants are in abundance and they're more pervasive and persistent um which can lead to symptoms of anxiety and or depression.

Hey guys, I'm Kristen the anxiety therapist and today I'm going to be talking about difficulty asking for help actually just came off of a session with a client who is really struggling with this. And I see this show up with a lot of my clients. So I thought this would be a good topic for today's video.

Hey guys, I'm Kristen the anxiety therapist and today I'm going to be talking about frequently asked questions and concerns when it comes to virtual therapy sessions or telehealth. Um this is something that has become a lot more common since the start of the pandemic and um some people are a little bit hesitant because they're not quite sure whether there's going to be the same quality or whether they can connect with their therapist.

Hey guys, I'm Kristen the anxiety therapist and today I'm going to be talking about what I like to call the four pillars of anxiety disorders and essentially what these are, are four different types of fear that are evident in different types of anxiety disorders.

Hey, I'm Kristen the anxiety therapist and today I'm going to be talking about six signs that it might be time to see a therapist for your anxiety. Now, anxiety itself is a very normal emotion. It's something all humans and animals experience because it's our fight flight or freeze response. So it can help to keep us safe.

Hey guys, I'm Kristen the anxiety therapist and today I'm going to be talking about how to set healthy boundaries, this is something that so many people struggle with and it comes up so frequently in my therapy sessions with clients, most of whom tend to have high functioning anxiety, be people pleasers kind of have this fear of disappointing others and therefore they tend to put other people's needs above their own and don't set boundaries with others. And what happens when we don't set healthy boundaries with others is that it actually leads to more anxiety.