Anxiety Counselling
Is Anxiety Keeping You From Stepping Outside Your Comfort Zone?
Are you suffering from panic attacks, racing thoughts, and constant feelings of dread?
Do you often feel too anxious to socialize or go out to public spaces?
Does it seem like there’s an invisible wall preventing you from going after your hopes and dreams?
When you’re living with anxiety, it’s normal to feel keyed up and on edge 24/7, as if feelings of impending doom are ruling your life. Perhaps you can hardly sleep at night because you’re always ruminating on what went wrong during the day and worrying about what could go wrong tomorrow. Sometimes your anxiety could get so severe that you experience chest pain, rapid heart rate, and shortness of breath. As a result, maybe you’re thinking it’s time to see a therapist who treats anxiety.
Anxiety Could Negatively Impact Your Relationships And Social Life
Because anxiety keeps you in a state of fear, it makes you want to isolate and avoid any people, places, or events that could trigger you or stress you out. You might resort to people-pleasing behaviours and refrain from speaking your mind or being your authentic self.
But while staying in your comfort zone may provide temporary relief, it can quickly lead to a life of regret and disappointment. You might pass up chances to make new friends, go on dates, and take advantage of new job promotions and career opportunities. Over time, this could make you deeply lonely.
Conquering anxiety requires finding the courage to face your fears. Growth happens when you are willing to be vulnerable and confront the sources of your anxiety. In counselling with Project Heal, you have the chance to confront your anxiety in an environment that’s safe, supportive, and empowering. Our therapists are here to help you reduce your stress, improve your confidence, and release the grip that anxiety has on your life.
Anxiety Is The Natural Byproduct Of A Lonely And Disconnected World
Human beings are social creatures—we came from tribal groups that were tight-knit, full of community care, and deeply connected to nature. This is the kind of life that we were designed to live. Unfortunately, our fast-paced, technology-crazed modern world has severed our connection to nature and fractured our communal bonds. We have become glued to screens and addicted to the dopamine rush of scrolling on social media. And in the wake of COVID, we’re more isolated than we’ve ever been.
The lack of community and increased isolation are huge reasons why anxiety is so prevalent nowadays. The more time we spend alone, the more likely we are to spiral down, lose perspective, and let our anxious thoughts control us. We aren’t meant to sit at desks answering emails and crunching numbers all day long. The anxiety we experience is simply a natural and inevitable result of our disconnected modern world.
Our Society Is Obsessed With Treating Symptoms And Surface Issues
In Western culture, there is a tendency to try and treat the symptom rather than the core issue. Many doctors and clinicians will simply prescribe a pill when a client is anxious.
Although there are certainly benefits to medication, it can’t address the root problem driving anxiety. After all, anxiety is often highly complex. It’s often the result of genetics, trauma, brain chemistry, and many other factors that medication and other quick fixes can’t alleviate. Trying to untangle all these issues on your own can be daunting.
This is why therapy is so valuable. It’s a chance to dive deep under the surface and focus on long-term healing instead of temporary solutions. This way, you don’t have to keep spinning your wheels trying to manage anxiety by yourself.
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Counselling Can Help You Regulate Your Anxiety And Go From Surviving To Thriving
Where there is fear, there is growth. This is a fundamental truth in life and in therapy. Fear is your body’s way of telling you that something isn’t right. By listening to your body and getting to know your fears instead of pushing them away, you can understand anxiety better and learn more about how it impacts your life. This increased self-awareness can lead to greater freedom. Once you know the ways that anxiety is holding you back in life, you can figure out how to deal with it more productively.
At Project Heal, our therapists will equip you with evidence-based coping skills for regulating your anxiety in day-to-day life. Our goal is to help you go from surviving to thriving, opening up a whole world of possibilities that you didn’t even know existed. As overpowering as anxiety is, it is highly treatable. With enough help and support, even the most socially anxious person in the world can become an effective public speaker. The key is simply learning about anxiety and implementing the right strategies to manage its effects.
What To Expect In Anxiety Counselling Sessions
Our approach to counselling is highly individualized, since everyone’s struggle with anxiety is different. First, you and your counsellor will determine your goals for therapy and come up with a treatment plan based on your needs, strengths, and challenges. Next, we’ll begin the work of safely and gradually confronting your anxiety and give you tools for regulating it more effectively. The tools you gain in treatment can help you challenge phobias, disarm panic attacks, reduce social anxiety, and manage any other struggles causing stress in your life.
We draw from a wide range of healing methods to treat anxiety, including:
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Exposure Response Prevention (ERP)
- Rapid Resolution Therapy (RRT)
- Somatic Therapy
- Neurofeedback
- Interpersonal Therapy (IPT)
No matter which approach suits you best, our therapists are confident that we can provide the skills and the wisdom to help you get control of your symptoms. Together, let’s dive deep into your fears and explore where they come from. Then let’s use that knowledge to step out of your comfort zone and challenge your fears, enabling you to live a fuller, more authentic life.
You May Have Some Questions About Anxiety Counselling…
This is a very natural fear. The good news is that our counsellors are trained to help people struggling with anxiety. We can help you explore your fears from a new angle and come up with coping skills that are effective, adaptive, and promote growth. On your own, it’s all too easy to turn to strategies that are maladaptive and reinforce anxious thinking (drinking, drug use, excessive screen time or isolation, etc.). Counselling can help you counteract these tendencies by giving you tools that allow you to work through anxiety rather than run from it.
We’re here to validate you and make you feel seen, heard, and understood. We know that anxiety can be embarrassing and irrational at times, but our approach to therapy is nonjudgmental. We will normalize your experiences so that you understand that you are not alone. Many people have been exactly where you are and found healing and relief through the power of therapy.
Counselling always goes at a pace that’s right for you and there is no pressure to discuss anything you’re not comfortable with. What’s more, our therapists are skilled at helping people work through anxiety in a way that doesn’t trigger their symptoms. We believe that we can do the same for you.
You Don’t Have To Keep Spinning Your Wheels Trying To Manage Anxiety
With the right help and support, you can take back your power and remove anxiety from the driver’s seat of your life. To learn more about anxiety counselling with Project Heal, call 778-323-8997 or visit our contact page to set up a free, 15-minute phone consultation.
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