Anxiety Counseling in Denver & Englewood, CO
Professional Anxiety Therapy Using Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFIT)
If anxiety is making it difficult to enjoy your daily life, you don’t have to face it alone. At Thrive, we specialize in using Emotionally Focused Therapy for Individuals (EFIT) to help you understand and overcome anxiety at its root. Whether you’re struggling with constant worry, sleep problems, panic attacks, or overwhelming stress, our experienced Denver Tech Center anxiety therapists can help you find lasting relief. We offer both in-person counseling in Englewood and online therapy throughout Colorado. Call us at 303-513-8975 to speak with a counselor today, or schedule your first anxiety counseling session using our secure online booking system.
Is Anxiety Controlling Your Life? Can’t Seem to Stop Worrying? Always Tired, Yet Unable to Get a Good Night’s Sleep?
Everyone feels occasional anxiety and stress. We may become anxious when meeting tight deadlines, participating in important social situations, or driving in heavy traffic. Such mild anxiety helps us feel alert and focused in challenging circumstances.
On the other hand, anxiety disorders are much more intense and cause severe distress. Anxiety can disrupt your life, affect your relationships, and impact your work performance. But here’s what many people don’t realize: anxiety is often a signal that deeper emotional needs aren’t being met.
Using Emotionally Focused Therapy for Individuals (EFIT), our Denver anxiety therapists help you understand the emotions underlying your anxiety, reconnect with yourself, and develop healthier ways of responding to stress and fear.
Fortunately, with proper and effective treatment, people suffering from anxiety disorders can and do recover.
What is Anxiety?
Sometimes, it’s hard to tell if you just have a lot of stress or if you have an Anxiety Disorder. Here are the basics:
Anxiety disorders are the number one mental health problem among American women and second only to substance abuse among men, according to research conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health.
Anxiety disorders affect approximately 15% of the United States population
Anxiety differs from fear in that fear always has a source. People who suffer from anxiety disorders feel both the emotional and physical symptoms of fear without being able to identify the reason they feel that way. Often they realize their thoughts are irrational, but cannot reduce or eliminate them.
From an EFIT perspective, anxiety often serves as a protective response—a way your system tries to keep you safe from emotional pain, rejection, or vulnerability. Our Denver anxiety counselors specialize in helping you understand these protective patterns and access the deeper emotions beneath your anxiety, leading to genuine healing and lasting change.
What are the Symptoms of an Anxiety Disorder?
Common signs that you may benefit from anxiety therapy include:
- Feelings of panic, fear and uneasiness
- Problems sleeping or insomnia
- Cold or sweaty hands
- Shortness of breath
- Heart palpitations
- An inability to be still and calm
- Dry mouth
- Numbness or tingling in the hands or feet
- Nausea
- Muscle tension
- Uncontrollable, obsessive thoughts
- Repeated thoughts or flashbacks of traumatic experiences
- Nightmares
- Ritualistic behaviors, such as repeated hand washing
- Difficulty concentrating
- Avoiding social situations or places
- Feeling disconnected from yourself or others
If you’re experiencing several of these symptoms regularly, EFIT-based anxiety counseling in Englewood or Denver can help you understand what your anxiety is trying to protect you from and find healthier ways to meet your emotional needs.
How EFIT Anxiety Counseling Can Help You:
Emotionally Focused Therapy for Individuals (EFIT) is an evidence-based approach that recognizes anxiety as more than just worried thoughts—it’s an emotional experience rooted in your attachment system and how you relate to yourself and others.
Our experienced EFIT anxiety therapists in Denver help you:
- Understand the emotional roots of your anxiety – Discover what deeper feelings and unmet needs drive your anxious responses
- Identify your protective patterns – Recognize how anxiety functions as a way to keep you safe from vulnerability or pain
- Access and process core emotions – Learn to feel and express emotions like sadness, loneliness, or fear that may be hidden beneath anxiety
- Develop secure self-attachment – Build a more compassionate, supportive relationship with yourself
- Reshape emotional responses – Create new, healthier patterns of responding to stress and emotional triggers
- Improve emotional regulation – Learn to soothe yourself and manage difficult feelings effectively
- Strengthen relationships – As you become less anxious, your connections with others naturally improve
- Build lasting change – Address anxiety at its emotional core rather than just managing symptoms
Unlike approaches that focus solely on changing thoughts or behaviors, EFIT gets to the heart of what drives anxiety—helping you heal the emotional wounds and insecure attachment patterns that fuel it.
What is Emotionally Focused Therapy for Individuals (EFIT)?
EFIT is the individual therapy application of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), a scientifically validated treatment developed by Dr. Sue Johnson. While EFT is widely known for transforming relationships in couples therapy, EFIT applies the same attachment-based principles to help individuals heal anxiety, depression, and trauma.
The EFIT approach to anxiety understands that:
- Anxiety often masks deeper, more vulnerable emotions like sadness, shame, or fear of abandonment
- Your anxious responses developed as adaptations to protect you from emotional pain
- True healing happens when you can access, understand, and reshape these emotional patterns
- Building a secure relationship with yourself is key to reducing anxiety
- Changing your emotional experience changes everything—your thoughts, behaviors, and relationships naturally follow
Research shows that EFIT is highly effective for treating anxiety, helping clients experience significant and lasting symptom reduction by addressing the emotional roots of their distress.
Learn more about Emotionally Focused Therapy and how it can transform your emotional life.
What About Worrying? What If I’m Just Very Stressed Out?
Most people who worry excessively do so because, on some level, they believe worrying is useful (planning, problem solving, or control). But from an EFIT perspective, chronic worry is often a way of avoiding deeper, more vulnerable emotions.
When we stay in our heads, constantly worrying and problem-solving, we don’t have to feel the scarier emotions underneath—like loneliness, helplessness, grief, or fear of not being enough. Worry keeps us busy, distracted, and feeling like we’re “doing something,” even when it’s exhausting and ineffective.
In EFIT anxiety therapy, we help you:
- Move from your head into your heart—from worrying to feeling
- Identify what you’re really afraid of beneath the worry
- Process the vulnerable emotions you’ve been avoiding
- Develop compassion for the parts of you that are scared or hurting
- Learn to soothe and support yourself in new ways
High levels of stress are also signals worth paying attention to. Whether you’re dealing with work pressure, relationship challenges, health concerns, family responsibilities, or major life transitions, chronic stress indicates that something important needs attention. The impact that prolonged stress can have on your physical and mental wellness can be huge. Why wait to get stress and anxiety under control?
Our Denver EFIT therapists can help you understand what’s driving your worry and stress, and transform your relationship with difficult emotions.
Our EFIT Approach to Anxiety Treatment in Denver
At Thrive, our anxiety therapists are trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy for Individuals (EFIT) and use this attachment-based, emotion-focused approach as our primary treatment for anxiety. We also integrate complementary evidence-based techniques when helpful:
- Emotionally Focused Therapy for Individuals (EFIT) – Our primary approach, helping you understand and heal the emotional roots of anxiety
- Attachment Theory – Understanding how your early relationships shaped your anxiety patterns and helping you develop secure self-attachment
- Emotion-Focused Skills – Learning to identify, express, and regulate emotions in healthy ways
- Mindfulness and Somatic Awareness – Connecting with your body’s signals and staying present with your emotional experience
- Trauma-Informed Care – Recognizing how past experiences contribute to present anxiety (learn more about our Trauma & EMDR Counseling)
We tailor our EFIT-based anxiety counseling approach to your unique needs, ensuring you receive personalized care that creates lasting emotional transformation.
Frequently Asked Questions About EFIT Anxiety Counseling
How is EFIT different from other anxiety treatments like CBT? While Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing thoughts and behaviors, EFIT focuses on transforming your emotional experience. EFIT recognizes that anxiety isn’t just about worried thoughts—it’s rooted in deeper emotional patterns and attachment wounds. By addressing these core emotions and helping you develop a secure relationship with yourself, EFIT creates lasting change that goes beyond symptom management. Many clients find EFIT more effective because it addresses what’s really driving their anxiety.
How long does EFIT anxiety therapy take? While everyone’s journey is different, many clients notice meaningful shifts within 8-12 sessions as they begin accessing and processing core emotions. Most people benefit from 16-24 sessions of EFIT to create lasting emotional transformation. Unlike quick-fix approaches, EFIT creates deep, sustainable change by healing the emotional wounds that fuel anxiety.
Do you offer online EFIT anxiety therapy in Colorado? Yes! We offer secure online therapy throughout Colorado, making it convenient to receive EFIT-based anxiety counseling from the comfort of your home. Online therapy has been shown to be just as effective as in-person sessions for emotionally focused work.
Does insurance cover EFIT anxiety counseling? Many insurance plans cover anxiety therapy, including EFIT. Contact us at 303-513-8975 to discuss your insurance benefits, or visit our Counseling Fees page for more information about costs and payment options.
Can EFIT help with panic attacks? Absolutely. Panic attacks are often the body’s way of expressing overwhelming emotion that hasn’t been processed. EFIT helps you understand what your panic is communicating, access the underlying emotions, and develop healthier ways to respond to emotional distress. As you heal the emotional roots of your panic, the attacks typically decrease in frequency and intensity.
Is EFIT only for people with trauma? No. While EFIT is highly effective for trauma-related anxiety, it helps anyone whose anxiety is rooted in emotional patterns, attachment wounds, or difficulty accessing and processing emotions. Whether your anxiety stems from childhood experiences, relationship patterns, life transitions, or unclear origins, EFIT can help you understand and heal it.
Who Can Benefit from EFIT Anxiety Therapy?
Our EFIT-based anxiety counseling services in Denver and Englewood can help:
- Adults struggling with chronic worry, stress, or panic attacks
- Individuals who feel disconnected from their emotions or “stuck in their head”
- People whose anxiety is rooted in past experiences or relationship patterns
- Those who’ve tried other therapies but haven’t found lasting relief
- Anyone who wants to understand the deeper meaning behind their anxiety
- People dealing with anxiety that affects their relationships and sense of self
- Individuals seeking more than symptom management—wanting genuine emotional healing
- Couples where one or both partners struggle with anxiety (see our Couples Counseling services)
- Teens struggling with anxiety and emotional disconnection (learn about our Teen Counseling program)
Why Choose Thrive for EFIT Anxiety Counseling in Denver?
At Thrive Couple & Family Counseling Services, we specialize in Emotionally Focused Therapy. Our therapists are extensively trained in EFIT and passionate about helping clients heal anxiety at its emotional core. When you work with us, you’ll experience:
- Specialized EFIT expertise – Therapists trained specifically in emotionally focused approaches
- Attachment-based understanding – Deep knowledge of how early experiences shape anxiety
- Compassionate, emotion-focused care – A safe space to explore and heal vulnerable feelings
- Proven, research-backed treatment – EFIT is scientifically validated for anxiety treatment
- Lasting transformation – Not just symptom relief, but genuine emotional healing
- Flexible options – Both in-person and online anxiety therapy available
Learn more about what makes Emotionally Focused Therapy effective and how our approach can help you overcome anxiety.
Ready to Take the First Step?
We offer individual and couples counseling for anxiety using Emotionally Focused Therapy. Getting EFIT-based support for anxiety is one of the best investments you can make in your emotional wellbeing and future. Give us a call to discuss how we can help you understand and heal your anxiety: 303-513-8975. Or, use our simple online scheduling system.
Denver Tech Center Anxiety Counseling
68 Inverness Ln E, Ste 106
Englewood, CO 80112
303-513-8975
Convenient EFIT Anxiety Therapy Locations
In-Person Anxiety Counseling: Our Englewood office serves clients from throughout the Denver metro area, including Centennial, Greenwood Village, Cherry Hills Village, Littleton, Highlands Ranch, Lone Tree, Parker, Aurora, Castle Rock, and Denver.
Online Anxiety Therapy: We provide secure telehealth services to clients throughout Colorado, including Summit County and other mountain communities.
Don’t let anxiety control your life any longer. Our compassionate EFIT-trained Denver anxiety therapists are here to help you understand what’s driving your anxiety and heal it at its emotional core. Experience the transformation that comes from genuine emotional healing. Contact Thrive Couple & Family Counseling Services today.
Call us at 303-513-8975 to learn more, or schedule an anxiety counseling appointment using our fast and secure online system.
Denver Tech Center Anxiety Counseling Location
68 Inverness Ln E, Ste 106
Englewood, CO 80112
303-513-8975