Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Campbell River, BC.

Anxiety is a powerful and normal human response that can be either positive or negative depending on how it is experienced and perceived. There can be a range of symptoms. In counselling sessions we will identify what type of anxiety you may be experiencing, explore triggers that may bring on the anxious feelings, thoughts processes that may be contributing as well as some of your daily behaviours. Benefits to treating anxiety issues are endless and can be life transforming on a day to day basis as well as long term enhancing of your life.

Our focus is to support individuals who are struggling with anxiety and stress to a more relaxed and manageable way of being. Not only is stress and anxiety hard on our health and energy, but it also can have a significant impact on our world around us. We will work in a collaborative manor to break apart the building blocks that have contributed to the imbalance of anxiety and stress in your life, and empower you with the tools and techniques to remain in balance.

Anxiety is an illness where we take our concerns and experiences and project them into the future to the extent that some people experience all the stress of a negative outcome. Postpartum anxiety is a particular interest to me as it often is ignored when a woman doesn't present with postpartum depression. Mindfulness based cognitive behavioural therapy and group therapy are two approaches I use. I love it when a group of women I gathered connect after the sessions are over. That community made for them is my benchmark for success.

Feelings of anxiety can become so intense that it becomes overwhelming. Often individuals struggling with anxiety express constant intruding thoughts that focus on fears of events of the future. Anxiety can create physical feelings of distress like a tight chest that makes it difficult to breath, an upset or tight feeling in the stomach, and general fatigue from constantly trying to control their thoughts and actions. Some people have battled anxiety for so long that they begin to believe it is just who they are and accept the restrictions it causes in their life. Through counselling we will work to break the cycle of anxiety controlling your inner world. Bringing a sense of relief, control and freedom that has been absent for so long.

A life, free from worry, stress, and anxiety- this is what we want for you. What is going on? How are you thinking? How are you feeling? What worries you? These are questions that we may start with in a therapy session that addresses anxiety and stress. We offer plenty of tools to help the anxious person change the way their brain is working. We want to cool down anxiety and stress, and learn acceptance and relaxation.