Counselling for Anxiety
*New clients: Offering a free 50-minute session to new clients (individuals & couples) when first session is booked prior to March 31, 2026. A free 20-minute online consultation is required prior to the first session.
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General Anxiety
Health Anxiety
Hypervigilence & Anxiety Related to Trauma
Climate Change (Eco) Anxiety)
Political 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. Anxiety often comes from protective parts that have learned that we need to be on the lookout for danger or worry or prepare for worst-case scenarios based, even if those strategies are causing us harm or distress.
Together we gently make space to understand these parts with curiosity and compassion, helping them feel seen and supported rather than overwhelmed or dismissed. Over time we will work towards creating more inner balance, strengthening your resilience, and allowing you to respond to your anxious parts as your adult self who is knowledgeable and capable.
Health Anxiety
Living with health anxiety can feel exhausting, often leaving you stuck in cycles of worry, reassurance seeking, and constant scanning for symptoms. In counselling, I approach health anxiety by helping clients get to know the parts of them that feel anxious about their health. These parts are usually trying to protect you and keep you safe, even if their strategies are no longer helpful or are creating more distress.
Alongside building understanding and compassion for these protective parts, I support clients in reconnecting with their bodies in a more grounded and trusting way. Health anxiety can make it difficult to interpret physical sensations, leading normal bodily cues to feel alarming or overwhelming. Together, we work toward increasing body awareness, tolerance, and a sense of internal safety, so you can respond to your body with curiosity and care rather than fear.
Hypervigilance & Anxiety Related to Trauma
After experiencing trauma, it’s common to notice heightened anxiety or a constant feeling of being on edge. Hypervigilance is often a protective response that develops in an effort to prevent something similar from happening again or to avoid reminders of the experience. While these reactions can feel exhausting and confusing, they are expected responses to very abnormal and overwhelming events.
In working with clients, I largely draw on Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST). Together, we focus on understanding your symptoms with compassion, strengthening emotional regulation, and creating a greater sense of safety in the present. When there is enough stability and internal support, we may gently move toward processing and integrating traumatic memories so they feel less intrusive and overwhelming. This work is collaborative and paced carefully, always guided by what feels safe and manageable for you.
Climate Change (Eco-) Anxiety
When we see the impacts of climate change or hear experts’ warnings and concerns, it’s understandable that feelings such as fear, helplessness, grief, or frustration may arise. Concerns about personal safety, loved ones, and future generations can weigh heavily and leave many people feeling overwhelmed or stuck.
In counselling, I support clients in meeting these emotions with compassion rather than judgment, using curiosity to better understand what is coming up internally. Together, we work to strengthen emotional regulation while also exploring ways to stay connected to hope, meaning, and values aligned action, helping to foster a greater sense of agency in the face of uncertainty.
Political Anxiety
If you are feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or distressed by the current political climate, you are not alone. Ongoing news stories about human rights atrocities, uncertainty about the future, and concerns about moving backwards can leave us feeling fearful, helpless, or shut down.
In counselling, I support clients experiencing political anxiety by gently exploring the parts of you that are impacted. We make space for parts that feel fearful, angry, overwhelmed, or numb, as well as parts that may want to avoid or disconnect altogether. Together, we work toward increasing compassion, clarity, and a sense of internal safety, while also exploring ways to engage with the world that feel aligned, sustainable, and true to who you are.