Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Sun Peaks, BC.

Anxiety and stress are common mental health challenges characterized by excessive worry, restlessness, and tension, often triggered by personal or environmental factors. These conditions can lead to physical symptoms like insomnia, fatigue, and difficulty concentrating. My therapeutic approach to healing involves an integrative therapeutic approach and mindfulness practices, helping clients understand and manage their thought patterns and reactions. I provide a supportive environment for exploring underlying causes, teaching effective coping strategies, and fostering resilience and self-awareness for long-term emotional well-being.

Our clients consistently share high rates of anxiety, worry, stress and overwhelm. We understand that these states can profoundly impact the nervous system. Our team will work to understand the context of these things (what are they in response to?) and provide insight and interventions to best support individuals and families. Our therapists provide individualized support including EMDR.

Anxiety and stress is very treatable with cognitive behavioural therapy. Ferne uses the new techniques to help reduce anxiety through examining fears, exposure therapy and relaxation tools. Ferne educates the individual about anxiety and the impact it can have on your life and relationships. She helps the individual come up with a treatment plan they can do successfully in small steps.

Anxiety and stress are normal responses to life events, work and relationship/family pressures, and worry and fear. In therapy we can explore the context of your life and relationships and how these relate to the stress and anxiety. Through individual or family counselling we can develop goals and strategies for addressing the stress or anxiety. I utilize therapeutic interventions from Response-Based Practice, Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

The circumstances and issues that you are dealing with are unique to you, but you don't have to face them alone. Every individual has different experiences, perceptions, feelings, thoughts, beliefs, values, attitudes, cultural backgrounds and "upbringings". Counselling sessions are private and confidential, and can provide a way for you to explore your problems and really tune in to your feelings. This is an opportunity to speak freely about your circumstances and release pent up feelings, without having to worry about what others think or feel, and without receiving unwanted advise from family, friends or coworkers. At the root of the problem, there are very real, legitimate and understandable reasons for feeling the way you feel, thinking the way...(view profile to read more)

Stress and Anxiety is one of the top concerns of our clients. Stress effects our entire lives, personally, professionally and the ripple effext ois felt by all individuals we are in contact with. Let us help you take control of your emotions, by doing this along with relaxation techniques we can help you focus your attention to what is important to you.

All of us experience anxiety and fear at some level, but when it is getting in the way of our day to day living we need strategies to help us deal with the fear, panic and unpleasant feelings and thoughts that result. Peacebypiece counseling offers various techniques to help people get a handle on the anxiety and stress that is getting in the way of well balanced living. Using Cognitive-Behavioral Techniques, relaxation techniques and EMDR people can begin to cope with stress and anxiety so that they can live more fully.

Anxiety and stress is part of the human experience. In fact, anxiety is a natural operational response in our brain to keep us safe and secure over our lifespan. However, sometimes our brains don't stop trying to keep us safe from phobias/fears and intense discomfort of uncertainty. This can result in unwanted distress and anxiety that can take over our lives and hold us back from our goals or enjoying life. I use approaches to help you through your experience of anxiety.

Anxiety and stress are normal reactions to many situations or to uncertainties in life. However, if your stress and anxiety are so severe that they interfere with your daily living (school, work, home, relationships, social interactions), it is a good idea to seek counselling. Getting counselling early can greatly improve the outcome As your counsellor I can help you work through your stress and anxiety by using strategies to get your life back in balance so that you are able to function more effectively in your daily life. We will also work together to develop a plan to help you cope during those unexpected critical times that inevitably happen that cause you stress and anxiety.

Anxiety falls along a continuum from acceptable to crippling, debilitating anxiety requiring professional intervention. The major forms that anxiety takes are: Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Panic Disorder, Phobic Disorders, Social Anxiety Disorders and Obsessive Compulsive Disorders (OCD). A variety of proven therapeutic interventions are well established now, eg., Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Yoga, Tai Chi, Breathwork. By diving into therapy clients regain a sense of optimism, courage and confidence in relationships, workplace and career, driving, aging, life transitions and more.

Anxiety and stress are both extremely common in Western culture. Both of these things deal with an unregulated nervous system and a fight/flight mode that is overextended. In working with you, I will be able to help you get back in tune with your body, learn to regulate your nervous system, treat yourself with compassion and relieve stress. The more you are able to listen to the message your body is sending you, the less your body will feel the need to scream to be heard.

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I find it rewarding to help clients strengthen their resilience, develop a self-care/wellness plan and improve coping to reduce the effects of loss, trauma, chronic illness, etc. Whether you are dealing with depression, anxiety, parenting issues, a major decision, or just cumulative stress, I hope to help you develop your inner resources and find your clarity and equilibrium.

Stress is a normal part of life. It can be productive and restrictive. Each person handles stress differently; too much stress, with an extreme responsive reaction, can be harmful. If your stress or anxiety has reached intolerable levels you should contact a physician for assessment. Once assessed you should consider seeing a therapist for treatment of the underlying aspects of your stress and anxiety. We provide a safe, caring and nurturing environment for treatment of stress and anxiety. As well, with tailored therapies such as talk, cognitive-behavioral and counselling we work with you to ensure maximum recovery so that you may embrace a renewed freedom, vision and flow in life.

Anxiety and stress are an inevitable part of everyone's lives at some times, but sometimes it can feel out of control and unmanageable. Working with youth and adults for over 20 years has helped me to see hundreds of different coping tools, strategies and support systems play out over time. Some work well and some not so well. Together, we will explore the contributing factors to your anxiety, worry and stress, to increase coping and build healthy support networks to enhance joy and mindfulness. Using a combination of CBT, DBT and mindfulness can help build a foundation or lifelong coping.