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Anxiety, Stress & Panic

Your nervous system is stuck on high alert. Even when nothing’s actually wrong.

The racing heart before a meeting that doesn’t warrant one. The panic that arrives out of nowhere, in the grocery store, in the car, at 3am. The constant hum of worry that never quite turns off. You’ve tried the breathing apps, maybe medication. There is a different way to support anxiety and stress: calm the nervous system’s alarm response directly, alongside the therapist or psychiatrist managing your care.

Why willpower alone can’t turn off an alarm system

What’s Happening

A body stuck in fight-or-flight

Racing heart, tight chest, shallow breathing, a mind that won’t stop scanning for the next problem, and sometimes, panic attacks that arrive with no clear trigger at all.

How It Feels

Exhausted by your own alertness

The dread of situations that never used to bother you. The friends you’ve stopped making plans with because canceling feels safer. The tiredness of a mind that won’t let you just be still.

Why It Matters

You can’t think your way out of a nervous system response

Anxiety lives in the body as much as the mind. Therapy and medication address the psychological and chemical pieces; you deserve direct support for the physical alarm response too, not just another breathing exercise.

What’s often missing

Standard care for anxiety is therapy, medication, or both, and both are valuable. What’s often missing is direct, hands-on support for the physical nervous-system activation underneath the anxious thoughts, alongside that care.

Calming the alarm system directly

Patients arrive here already in therapy, on medication, or both, looking for additional support for the physical experience of anxiety. This clinic’s approach focuses on calming the nervous system’s stress response directly.

The clinical logic: The acupuncture calms an overactive stress response. ATP Resonance BioTherapy® supports the body’s general recovery from chronic stress activation. O3 ReBoot Therapy® supports general circulation and relaxation.

How we work with your care team

Your therapist and psychiatrist manage diagnosis, therapy, and any medication; nothing there changes except through them. What we support is the physical alarm response and nervous-system strain that come alongside. Therapists and psychiatrists across Broward County send us patients for exactly that, and many patients simply send themselves.

Susan Mitchell, AP, Acupuncture Physician

Susan Mitchell, AP

Clinical Director · 30+ years

You’re Not a Case Number

Your protocol, personalized

There’s no fixed number of visits and no generic timeline. Your treatment frequency, therapy mix, and program length are set at your evaluation and adjusted at every visit based on how you’re actually responding.

What shapes your plan

Your specific symptoms

What you’re experiencing and how long it’s been going on sets your starting approach.

Your response

Visit frequency steps up or down based on your measured progress at each visit, not a preset week count.

Your care team

Your plan is built and adjusted in coordination with your therapist, psychiatrist, or physician, never around them.

Candidacy comes first: the evaluation determines whether the program fits your case; cost is discussed in person after that.

The Plan

Three steps, starting with the consultation

  1. 1

    $45 initial consultation

    Tell us what you’re experiencing and who else is on your care team. We evaluate your case, including whether you’re not a candidate.

  2. 2

    Personalized support plan

    A plan built around your specific symptoms, generalized anxiety, panic attacks, or both.

  3. 3

    A calmer baseline

    A nervous system that isn’t stuck on high alert. More room to just be still.

Illustration of a person sitting calmly taking one slow easy breath
What Calm Feels Like

A nervous system that stands down

A quiet evening your body actually believes.

A heart rate that matches the moment you’re in.

Alert when it matters, off when it doesn’t.

An overactive stress response doesn’t resolve on its own

Chronic nervous-system activation can affect sleep, digestion, and overall health well beyond the anxious feeling itself. Direct support for the physical response, alongside your therapy or medication, is worth pursuing in its own right.

Questions, Answered

Anxiety, Stress & Panic FAQs

No, the therapies work alongside your existing care, never as a replacement for it. Any medication decisions remain your prescriber’s call.
Many patients seek support for panic attacks; we evaluate your specific pattern and build a protocol around calming the underlying stress response.
No, if you’re in crisis, please contact your therapist, psychiatrist, or the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (call or text 988) immediately. This clinic supports ongoing wellness, not emergency mental health care.
No. The therapies are non-pharmaceutical, so there’s nothing to interact with a prescription. Dosage and any changes stay with your prescriber.
Some people find it helps them feel calmer and less physically wound-up, since the sessions are aimed at settling the nervous system’s alarm response rather than the anxiety itself. Responses vary from person to person, and it is not a cure.
Yes, and many patients arrive that way. No referral is required, though; you can call directly.
Book Your Consultation

You’ve been carrying a lot. Let’s support the body carrying it.

Your initial consultation is $45. Tell us your story, and we’ll evaluate your case.

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954-772-1919

Speak to a real person about your case today.

Visit us

3471 North Federal Highway, Suite 500
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33306

Therapists, psychiatrists & physicians

Physicians across Broward County refer patients here; a phone call is all it takes.

New Patient Offer $45 Initial Consultation

Book your first visit

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No referral required · We coordinate with your therapist, psychiatrist, or physician.

New Patient Offer $45 Initial Consultation

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We’ll confirm by call or text, usually the same day.

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