Counselling for Anxiety
General Anxiety
Experiencing nervousness sometimes is completely normal! But when our anxiety starts to take a negative toll on us - our mood, causing us to feel overwhelmed, or impacting our sleep - that’s when we might need some extra support.
With clients experiencing anxiety, we’ll start by exploring when the anxiety is coming up and where it might stem from.
Health Anxiety
Having constant anxiety about your health can leave you searching for answers and feel exhausting. When working with folks with health anxiety, I begin by helping clients explore where this anxious part might stem from. Our anxious parts typically think they’re trying to protect us or keep us safe, but are sometimes keeping us in patterns that might no longer be serving us, or might be causing us harm.
In addition to deepening our understanding of my clients’ health anxiety, I support clients to get more attuned to their bodies and the sensations they experience. Something that can come up with health anxiety is we can misread our physical sensations as something being wrong with our bodies. It’s possible that we’re struggling to read our bodies cues or become overwhelmed by them.
Hypervigilance & Anxiety Related to Trauma
Sometimes after experiencing something traumatic, we can experience heightened anxiety and/or hypervigilance. This can be our way of trying to protect ourselves from something similar happening again, or avoiding potential triggers or reminders of the event or person.
Climate Change Anxiety
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.