Anxiety Counselling

Anxiety is a natural psychological and physiological response to perceived threat. While everyday anxiety helps us respond to stressors, problematic anxiety is disproportionate to the situation and interferes with daily functioning.​ 

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We may experience anxiety as cognitive processes such as worries, racing thoughts, or perfectionistic urges. Alternatively, we may experience anxiety as physical sensations like tightness in the chest, restlessness, and a sense of being "keyed up", or as mood states like irritability and dread. For many people, anxiety shows up as a combination of the above symptoms. While anxiety often arises in response to real concerns about a future event, in some cases it may stem from a subconscious attempt to suppress or avoid underlying emotions.

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In anxiety counselling, I'll support you to explore the root causes of your anxiety and identify the skills and strategies that will help to manage it. Some approaches that may help include CBT to support cognitive and behavioural change, somatic therapy to support body awareness and emotional processing, and mindfulness to support stress reduction. We'll work together to build your capacity to regulate your nervous system so that you can respond to life's stressors with greater steadiness and ease.

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If you are considering starting anxiety counselling in Vancouver, I invite you to connect.