Anxiety Therapy In-person or Online in Kentucky
Looking for a in person therapist in Lexington or online located in Kentucky to address your anxiety or worries?
Have you been noticing an increase of decision fatigue or afraid to make a decision for fear of the outcome? Have you been noticing an increase in worry? Or maybe you have become fearful to leave your house or of specific situations or locations? While anxiety can be a normal experience it can easily negatively impact your daily functioning? If this is you, you may benefit in therapy.
Types of Anxiety
Anxiety is one of the most common mental health challenges, affecting millions of people across Kentucky and the U.S. It can show up as constant worry, racing thoughts, panic attacks, trouble sleeping, or physical symptoms like a racing heart and tension. Common anxiety-related disorders include:
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Social Anxiety Disorder
Panic Disorder
Specific Phobias
Agoraphobia
Separation Anxiety
How Therapy Helps Anxiety
Therapy helps with anxiety symptoms by providing a safe, nonjudgmental space to explore what triggers anxious thoughts and physiological reactions, teaching practical skills to manage them, and addressing underlying patterns that maintain anxiety over time. Through approaches like cognitive-behavioral therapy, exposure techniques, mindfulness, and emotion regulation strategies, clients learn to identify and challenge unhelpful thoughts, gradually face feared situations, and reduce avoidance that fuels anxiety. Therapists also help build coping tools—breathing exercises, grounding techniques, and activity scheduling—to lessen immediate distress, while fostering long-term resilience by improving self-compassion, problem-solving, and social supports. Over time, this combination of insight, skill-building, and gradual practice leads to reduced symptom intensity, greater control over daily life, and a stronger sense of confidence and well-being.
What Kind of Therapy Helps Anxiety?
While many therapy approaches can be modified to address anxiety symptoms. At New Step Therapy we work together with each person to understand their anxiety and replace unhelpful thoughts of build habits to help you work through anxiety triggering events. We teach proven tools—like cognitive-behavioral skills, exposure, mindfulness, and grounding—and create a practical plan for steady improvement. We offer a safe, affirming space, especially for LGBTQ+ clients, where strengths are noticed and setbacks are learning moments. Therapy aims for quick symptom relief and long-term resilience, helping people manage emotions, build healthier coping habits, and gain confidence in daily life. We have therapist that utilized therapy approaches that include CBT, exposure therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, mindfulness-CBT, and more to help you decrease the impact of your anxiety symptoms.
Learn more about how New Step Therapy can help you reduce anxiety’s impact on your daily functioning.
New Step Therapy is here to help you decrease the impact stress has on your life!
New Step Therapy provides in person therapy in our Lexington, KY office and online throughout Kentucky. The following providers are here to help you manage your stress and adjust to life changes:
Kara Lairson, LPCA
Tonya Jones, LPCA