Anxiety
Explore what's behind your anxiety and build healthy ways to manage it.
Too much anxiety can cause an enormous and very painful amount of distress, even though it is an emotion common to essentially all of us. Anxiety at times, when it is not too intense, can help in motivating or warning us about danger.
When it starts to seriously impact our lives, perhaps becoming unpredictable and unhelpful, then it can paralyze us and become an anxiety disorder. There are several anxiety disorders; specific phobias, panic attacks, generalized anxiety disorder, and social anxiety are just a few examples of the anxiety disorders that we assess and treat.
How we help
We start by understanding the specific patterns that drive your anxiety — what triggers it, how it shows up in your body and thoughts, and what keeps it going. From there, we work together to build practical skills for managing anxious thoughts and physical symptoms, gradually facing the situations you've been avoiding, and developing long-term resilience.
Depending on your needs, we may use Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to identify and restructure unhelpful thinking patterns, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help you move forward even when anxiety is present, EMDR to process experiences that may be fuelling the anxiety, or mindfulness and relaxation techniques to manage the physical symptoms in the moment.
Therapy isn't about eliminating anxiety entirely — some anxiety is a normal and even helpful part of life. It's about changing your relationship with it so it no longer runs the show.
Approaches we use:
CBT
ACT
Mindfulness
EMDR
Relaxation Techniques