Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Gibbons, AB.

I incorporate elements from Emotionally Focused Therapy and Internal Family Systems. Two compassionate, emotion-centered approaches that work beautifully to help you understand and heal the roots of stress and anxiety — not just manage the symptoms. These approaches help you: Understand your emotions and patterns – Notice what happens inside when anxiety arises. Connect with your inner parts – Recognize the worried, protective, perfectionistic, or critical parts of you and what they’re trying to do to help. Bring compassion to your experience – Learn how to soothe anxiety rather than fight it. Find calm and balance – Strengthen your sense of safety, confidence, and emotional connection.

Our world is busy and most of us have a lot of pressures and expectations on us. There are a number of important strategies to deal with life’s stressors. How we approach stress makes a big difference! Anxiety is when we feel a lot of fear and worry and experience life events as more threatening than they actually are. In addition to strategies for anxiety it’s is helpful to unravel the thoughts and beliefs systems that cultivate it.

My experience supporting clients with anxiety, stress, and burn out involves helping them understand the nervous system’s natural responses to stress and fear. Through grounding techniques, body awareness, and cognitive-emotional integration, I support clients in developing tools to calm the body and reframe anxious thoughts. Using these skills as a way to close the stress response cycle allowing our bodies to come to its natural resting state. This approach helps clients cultivate safety, confidence, and greater trust in their ability to manage life’s challenges.

Anxiety and stress are experienced as very distressing and can become debilitating. They are often signs that we need to make some changes in our lives and find more balance. Fortunately there are many ways to combat anxiety and stress. Everyone is unique and counselling is modified to meet the individuals needs of each person. Starting to identify alternative ways of approaching stresses enables you to make changes that relieve anxiety so you can become more focused and peaceful.

Do you feel completely overwhelmed and burnt out by life stress and too much on your plate? Are you exhausted from trying to juggle too much and keep too many balls in the air at once? I can help you cultivate balance in your life so you can feel more present and content. Anxiety and stress are part of full lives, but we don't have to feel crushed under pressure or trapped by worry and fear. You will learn how to adjust to life stress and transitions, and we will work together to keep you moving forward and LIVING WELL - not just coping.

Daily life inevitably brings with it a certain level of anxiety and stress, that everybody experiences to some degree. Are you finding yourself too overwhelmed by the stress and confusion? I can work with you to develop strategies and coping methods so that these stressful situations are manageable. We can work together to ensure that you have the tools to balance the areas of your life that are causing you stress, whether they are relationship, work or health related.

My approach to treating anxiety is based on learning skills and strategies to help you accept instead of get rid of your anxiety. As you stop trying to fight against feeling anxious you will notice that all of your anxiety symptoms become easier and easier to manage. Anxiety is kind of like quick sand the more you fight against it the worse it gets.

Anxiety and stress are experienced by most psychotherapy clients who come here. People usually find my approach helpful whether or not they identify anxiety/stress as a primary condition for treatment. I always aim to adjust my treatment approach to the individual characteristics and needs of my client. Sometimes situations and systems can be addressed and improved; sometimes all that a person can change is their own attitude. I am able to use verbal, visusalization, and altered state strategies for helping people grow past fear.