anxiety

5 Benefits of Anxiety Counseling In The New Academic Year

It’s the start of another academic year! University of Utah, BYU, Utah Tech, and many more schools, colleges, and universities in the Salt Lake Valley and Utah Valley are gearing up for another year of training.

Do you feel a flurry of mixed emotions? You may feel nervous, excited, overwhelmed, motivated, tired, or anxious. These are all completely normal feelings to have.

Anxiety about keeping up with tasks and homework, achieving good grades, making friends, being seen as cool, and keeping family happy can all take their toll on the mind and heart.

One of the best things you can do to proactively help your anxiety is to find a compassionate counselor who truly understands what you’re going through.

Knowing you’re not alone in your feelings can be helpful, but it’s often not enough to alleviate your anxiety completely. It can be scary to talk to your peers and be vulnerable with them about what you’re feeling! How will they react? Will they view you differently? Will they laugh at you?

A trained counselor can help you navigate all the emotions that come with going back to school, including how to deal with people and how to feel good about yourself with or without their good opinion.

These ideals may feel wildly out of your reach at the moment. But a compassionate therapist is just a bit taller than you, thanks to their training and experience, so they can help you pull down those higher branches and reach the goals you’d love to achieve.

Inside Wellness in sunny Utah Valley is close to all the major schools and universities in Northern Utah. Our caring therapists specialize in helping students navigate the challenges of school.

This includes students staying in the US from another country to go to school here. You are very welcome! We want to support you as you go through this journey and help you reach your goals.

Our mission is not just to help you make it through your schooling; we want to help you come out the other side a stronger, more confident person, who feels good about themself and what they’ve accomplished.

If this sounds like something you’d like to explore, schedule a call with our gentle Care Coordinator today. She will listen to your challenges and goals and help match you with a therapist who will truly be able to support you.

Going back to school may feel scary and lonely, but you don’t need to stay feeling that way! Reach out for help from Inside Wellness Counseling today. It may be one of the best investments in your future you ever make!

Is Perfectionism A Form Of Anxiety?

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At its most basic, perfectionism is the desire to be perfect as a person or in some area of your life (eg. work).

Unfortunately, Western culture does not nurture balance. We’re under constant pressure from the media and society, in general, to be perfect - or as close to it as possible - in pretty much every aspect of our lives. Often, we’re so used to living with this type of thinking that we don’t even recognize it as unbalanced.

This pressure can be very difficult to resist and succumbing to perfectionist thinking is an ever-present reality. However, perfectionist thinking can have some major negative impacts on mental health. 

While perfectionism is not on its own a form of anxiety, it can absolutely feed anxiety and anxiety disorders.

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People with disorders like obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder, and social anxiety disorder can be even more vulnerable to experiencing issues with perfectionism.

Perfectionism usually happens as a result of trying to live up to an internally-created ideal, but it can also stem from fear of judgment or the perception of others. 

These negative thoughts and beliefs may begin to result in avoidance behaviors, isolation, and depression. Some people become so overwhelmed with the stress and constant demands of perfectionism that they become paralyzed by fear and negative thinking. 

If you are struggling with perfectionism, or perfectionism and anxiety, help is absolutely available.

With the help of a trained therapist who specializes in anxiety, perfectionistic thoughts can often be traced back to the originating core beliefs and challenged in a safe environment. There are also practical tools you can learn to help you cope with the effects of perfectionism.

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Begin Addressing Perfectionism With An Anxiety Therapist in Utah

At Inside Wellness, we can offer you a safe space to work through these challenges with a trained expert. Our team specializes in helping clients with perfectionism and anxiety. We would be honored to help you work through the traumatic life experiences that can trigger perfectionism. To start your therapy journey, please follow these simple steps:

  1. Schedule a call with our Care Coordinator to book your first session.

  2. Meet with a caring therapist

  3. Start learning to cope with perfectionist tendencies!

Other Services Offered at Inside Wellness

We understand you may experience a number of mental health concerns in addition to anxiety counseling. This is why we are happy to offer support with a variety of mental health services. Other services offered include body image counseling, eating disorder therapy, EMDR Therapy, and online Therapy in Utah. Feel free to visit our blog or FAQ to learn more helpful information!

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Is OSFED A Real Eating Disorder?

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Is OSFED A Real Eating Disorder?

In our appearance-crazed, weight-obsessed, perfection-focused world, eating disorders are become more and more common. Humans are social creatures and we are not immune to social pressure, especially if we are already struggling with anxiety or depression.

Sometimes an eating disorder doesn’t fit into the clearly defined characteristics of other, labeled eating disorders, such as bulimia or anorexia nervosa. However, a person may still be suffering from significantly disordered eating that negatively affects their mood, ability to function, relationships, and health.


In this case, a person may be diagnosed with OSFED - Other Specified Feeding and Eating Disorder.

How to Find an Anxiety Therapist in Provo

How to Find an Anxiety Therapist in Provo

While Provo offers beautiful views, social opportunities, quick access to all things outdoors, you find yourself feeling out of sorts and at times like a fish out of water. You know you could benefit from some extra tools & support from someone who gets it and can help you make sense of it all. You’ve tried off of the basic tools to help you manage the pressure, angst, and comparisons and you still feel stuck in the what if’s, how do I measure up’s, the chatter in your head that seems to never sleep.

5 Ways to Combat Negative Body Image

When you look in the mirror, you feel sad and disgusted. A series of negative thoughts run through your head and you worry about leaving your house looking this way. You decide to change your outfit for the 3rd time this morning, but as you’re standing there looking at your clothes you start to feel frustrated. You want to feel confident and think about your body less. You’re tired of negative body image disrupting your life, and you start to think about what you could do to improve your body image...

When Decision Making is Stressful

When Decision Making is Stressful

You want to feel confident about the decisions you make, but self-doubt and fear of what others think often gets in your way.

Your stomach knots up and you ask multiple people for reassurance before making a decision. You may have hoped other’s advice would bring some comfort but ultimately differing opinions have left you feeling confused and even a little angry. It’s impossible to make a decision that everyone agrees with, and you are worried about getting it right. You feel paralyzed and wish you could trust your judgment.

What is Shame?

According to Brene Brown, a brilliant social worker and shame-researcher, “shame is the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing we are flawed and therefore unworthy of acceptance or belonging.” It can be crippling and cause us to feel self-loathing, loneliness, and despair. When we’re stuck in shame, we generally don’t feel motivated to make changes, but instead, focus on our many short-comings.