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Counselling for Anxiety

Anxiety Counselling

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  • Does your anxiety ever feel like it's ruling you?!

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  • Have you consulted your doctor regarding your anxiety, but feel that you need to understand it and heal more deeply?

 

  • Does your world feel like it's shrinking because of how overwhelming your anxiety feels?

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Here's the good news: There are actually many ways that counselling can help with your anxiety!

Here are some of the ways we might approach and address anxiety in therapy together:

1. Let's learn how anxiety shows up for you

We will give you space to be heard around what anxiety feels like for you in your life, and how it affects you and your world. Moving too quickly into 'fixing the problem'  is not always the best approach for some. Many folks need to first feel fully validated and understood before moving towards learning about coping tools and new ways to approach anxiety in their life

2. Building acceptance

We will discuss the importance and value of facing your emotions with acceptance as opposed to denying minimising or shutting down them down. When we learn to accept anxiety and steer away from fearing it, we can disarm it's energy and find more effective ways to move with and through it. We may draw from various mindfulness based approaches to start fostering a sense of awareness and acceptance around anxiety and other emotions.

3. Mindfulness Practice

Some clients might be intimated by considering meditation or mindfulness practices - so we will always work within your comfort level. Mindfulness is a gentle compliment when applying CBT (next step) or other therapeutic modalities. It allows us to pause, notice, accept and take note of our thoughts so that we can start challenging and reframe the negative thoughts that are no longer serving you.

Applicable Modalities and Trauma

 Incorporating techniques to help you from modalities like CBT and DBT might be explored . CBT (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy) and DBT (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy) are evidence-based approaches and likely some of the most popular approaches used when treating depression and/or anxiety. CBT asks us to examine how the way we talk to ourselves (our self-talk) to see how it affects how we feel and how we behave or act.  DBT can teach us to respond to and regulate difficult and intense emotions.

We know that anxiety can also stem from past trauma we have experienced in our lives that has yet to be fully processed and healed.  Some other more trauma oriented and somatic modalities like EMDR and ART could be helpful approaches to help with treating trauma-related anxiety.

 Resolution Therapy.

5. Supplementary Assignments at Home

Homework - yikes! This is only if you want it. The work that clients apply in between sessions can help them progress, magnify their own insight and move towards a place of greater empowerment. Remember......it is all just practice! There is no grade, no right or wrong - practising what you learn in session in your every day life is about exploration and seeing what works for you.

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