Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Medicine Hat, AB.

Are you struggling with worry? Perhaps you are experiencing anxiety for the first time in life and feel overwhelmed? Or perhaps anxiety has been a long-term struggle, and you've nearly given up the hope of change? Through talking about life's events, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors we potentially come out of the anxiety cycle, to peace. While it is not uncommon for clients to enter counselling with anxiety, talk therapy is known to be helpful. Clare Booth Luce wrote: "There are no hopeless situations; there are only men (people) who have grown hopeless about them." It is my privilege to support you on the journey to finding hope again.

I know it can be overwhelming dealing with constant stress and anxiety. When you work with me I will help you discover what is at the root of your anxiety/stress. Using CBT therapy we can together explore what thoughts are leading to your anxiety and I will provide you with tools that will best manage your anxiety in the future so you can take your power back.

Most people do not like feeling anxious or stressed. People are not saying I am glad to be stressed or anxious. What do we do when this happens. We need to process it and for most people counselling is a place for processing. Along with processing stress and anxiety comes a deeper longing to to be heard and validated and to sometimes be given new skills or strategies. What ever you need whether an ear to listen, heart to understand or ideas for coping with it I can provide it in comfortable environment.

Being anxious, feeling stressed to the max takes a toll on ourselves and our relationships. Exploring the reasons for feeling stressed such as feeling out of control, fear, or worried about what others may think is one of the steps of dealing with anxiety or stress. Also exploring healthy coping strategies can reduce the symptoms. Learning to stay in the moment, instead of past or future, increases your ability to enjoy what is happening now instead of feeling like life is passing you by.

Keystone Child and Family Therapy provides counseling to help couples, parents, and children cope with and be free from the effects of anxiety and stress. Both anxiety and stress can be debilitating for the individual and to those around him or her. It can have negative consequences to couple relationships, parent/child relationships, even relationships between peers at school or the workplace. Through a combination of Attachment Based Counseling, Solution-Focused Counseling, and Cognitive Behavioral Counseling Keystone provides practical strategies to overcome the anxiety and have deeper more satisfactory relationships.

While our bodies are perfectly designed to adapt and react to stress, modern problems mean that we tend to detect life threatening dangers in very ordinary places. Conflicts at work, arguments in our relationships and uncertainties such as the post-Covid world activate old survival mechanisms. We may be stuck in the buzzing, fear states of ‘fight-flight’ or the numb and paralyzed states of ‘freeze and shut down.’ The good news is that I have a long history of safely and successfully helping individuals and couples to reduce and release stress using a variety of CBT and mindfulness techniques, as well as trauma-informed therapy. You have my commitment to compassionate and educated care.

Anxiety and stress, although related, are very different things. Some can experience anxiety without stressful events. Others can experience stress without anxiety. And certainly, others can experience stress and anxiety in ways where they inflame each other making life very difficult. To address stress and anxiety, I would work on 3 levels. The 1st is to immediately increase skills and tools to decrease stress and anxiety. The 2nd is to become aware of the thinking patterns that exacerbate these negative experiences. And the 3rd is to look at one’s relationship with life. This involves learning life management skills that can make a difference to improve one's life.