Anxiety Treatment in San Diego
For anxiety and panic that weekly therapy has not been able to calm. Residential, PHP and IOP, with depression and trauma treated alongside and psychiatry every week.
- Anxiety, panic attacks and the avoidance that follows
- Depression and trauma treated at the same time
- A medication visit with psychiatry every week
- Morning and evening IOP, around work
- Works with many PPO plans, and verification is free
If this is a medical emergency, call 911. For a mental health or suicide crisis, call or text 988.
Treating the anxiety, and what travels with it
Anxiety often comes with depression, trauma or drinking. At Wings, they are treated on the same plan, by the same team, so one does not keep pulling the other back.
Anxiety and depression
Worry and dread on top of low mood and no energy. Treating one without the other rarely holds.
Depression treatment
Anxiety and trauma
A nervous system stuck on alert after what happened. A trauma therapist is on every team.
Trauma treatment
Anxiety and drinking
Alcohol or pills to calm down or sleep, which makes the anxiety worse the next day.
Mental health and substance use
When worry starts making the decisions
Everyone feels anxious sometimes. An anxiety disorder is when it stays, grows, and starts shaping where you go, what you do and how you sleep.
Worry that will not stop
Running through what could go wrong, for hours, about things big and small.
Panic attacks
A racing heart, trouble breathing and the sense something terrible is happening.
Avoiding
Skipping work, driving, crowds or calls to keep the anxiety away.
In the body
Tight chest, stomach problems, headaches and muscles that never relax.
Sleep that does not come
Lying awake with your mind racing, then running on empty all day.
Work slipping
Missed days, a leave of absence, or barely holding it together at your desk.
When panic starts shrinking your life
A panic attack feels like an emergency, and many people end up in the ER before anyone names it. The fear of the next one can be as limiting as the attacks themselves.
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Understand what is happening
Learn what a panic attack is in the body, so it stops feeling like danger.
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Skills to ride it out
Breathing, grounding and distress tolerance skills, practiced until they work under pressure.
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Face what you have been avoiding
Step by step, with your therapist, so places and situations come back into your life.
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Medication reviewed
Psychiatry looks at what you take for panic or sleep, and adjusts it with you.
Chest pain or trouble breathing for the first time? Call 911 or go to the ER to rule out a medical cause.
Anxiety treatment around your job, or a break from work
Many people call when anxiety is already costing them at work. IOP runs in the morning or the evening, so you can keep working. If you need full days of treatment, admissions can explain FMLA and short-term disability.
Intensive outpatient (IOP) →Skills, therapy and medication on one plan
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CBT and ACT skills
Catch anxious thinking, stop feeding it, and act on what matters even when anxiety shows up.
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DBT for the hardest moments
Distress tolerance and emotion skills for panic, urges and overwhelm.
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A primary therapist and a trauma therapist
Two clinicians on your team, for the anxiety and for what may sit under it.
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Weekly psychiatry
A medication visit every week, so changes are made and checked quickly.
The right level of care for your anxiety
The clinical assessment decides where you start. If another program would serve you better, admissions will say so and help with the next step.
Less support → more support
Weekly therapy
Outside Wings, when it is enough for now.
Admissions can suggest optionsIOP
Morning or evening, around work.
At WingsPHP
Full treatment days, home or housing at night.
At WingsResidential
When anxiety has taken over daily life.
At Wings
When another program fits better
Addiction or detox is the main concern
Admissions will help you find a program that fits
Active psychosis or a primary eating disorder
These need a different level of care
Under 18
Admissions can point you to adolescent care
Not sure where you fit?
Admissions talks it through with you and tells you plainly if another program fits better.
Talk to admissionsIs Wings right for you? →Inside the men's and women's offices
The men's and women's programs each have their own office, the same two locations shown on the maps below. Open a photo to see it larger.
Map and directions ↓Visit our offices in Carlsbad
Office hours: 9 a.m.–5 p.m., seven days a week
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Wings works with many PPO insurance plans
Admissions verifies your benefits before admission, free and confidential. For Medi-Cal or Medicare, admissions can point you to programs that accept them.
Questions about anxiety treatment
When residential makes sense, panic, work, medication and insurance.
Don't see your question?
Admissions answers calls 9 a.m.–5 p.m., seven days a week. Calls are confidential.
Call(760) 388-6369Visits, phones, what to bring and more in the admissions FAQ →All the ways to reach Wings →When is anxiety serious enough for residential or PHP?
When weekly therapy and medication have not been enough, and anxiety or panic is keeping you from work, driving, leaving home or sleeping. The clinical assessment decides the right level of care.
Does Wings treat panic attacks?
Yes. Panic is treated with skills to ride out attacks, step-by-step work on what you have been avoiding, and a weekly medication review with psychiatry.
Can I keep working during anxiety treatment?
In IOP, yes, with morning or evening options. For residential or PHP, admissions can explain FMLA and short-term disability.
I also have depression or trauma. Can Wings treat both?
Yes. Anxiety often comes with depression or trauma, and at Wings they are treated together, with a trauma therapist on every team.
Will Wings change my anxiety medication?
Psychiatry sees you every week and reviews what you take, including for panic or sleep. Any change is made with you, and checked the following week.
Are men and women treated together?
Wings runs a men's program and a women's program, each with its own office and groups.
Will insurance cover anxiety treatment?
Wings works with many PPO plans, including Anthem Blue Cross, Blue Shield of California, Cigna, Aetna and UnitedHealthcare. Admissions verifies your benefits before admission at no cost. If you have Medi-Cal or Medicare, admissions can point you to programs that accept them.