Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Surrey, BC.

Experience: Throughout my 20 years of professional experience in the human services field I have been driven by a passion for helping others that I now bring to Clinical Counseling. It is rewarding to serve youth, adults, and families, helping them to overcome distressing and traumatic life events while realizing their strengths and resilient qualities. My clinical counselling practice includes supporting individuals who experience anxiety, depression, PTSD, grief and loss, self-harming behaviors, suicide ideation, and those who experienced domestic violence. My lived experiences inform my practice. Being married for 33 years and raising three children, now young adults, has increased my empathy, compassion, and understanding for youth, adults, and...(view profile to read more)

Our experience of anxiety is often an indicator that something is out of balance in our lives. While a healthy degree of stress can be a motivating factor for many people, it can become emotionally and physically debilitating if it is excessive. Together we will explore the source of your anxiety and/or stress and develop skills and create options for you to begin to enjoy balance in your life once again. I have assisted many clients to regain the ability to respect and respond to their emotions and the messages they can learn from them, rather than feeling controlled by them. They have reported feeling empowered and able to enjoy life again.

You can live free of anxiety. There are step you can take. Anxious thinking creates powerful negative messages that impact your thoughts and your body physically. The result is your life begins to shrink. This is no way to live. You are meant to live a full, healthy life. The beautiful thing is you get to choose. Today you can start on a new journey towards freedom that gives you a new level of skill and an understanding of how anxiety works to assist you in defeating it and replacing it with greater peace and joy.

With anxiety and stress, it is important to not only learn ways to manage the symptoms, but also to heal at the source. Looking to the implicitly stored awareness that the body holds we can often unhook the stress and anxiety where it is rooted. New neural pathways form from this gently implicit attention, helping the body to have a new relationship to the same experiences.

Practices such as yoga, walking or meditation often help when we are thinking of issues of anxiety or stress. Have you become too busy? Do you need to take time out to take a few deep breaths? What are you eating? Is it creating more stress for you? Are there parts of our lives that we can change? Why are we feeling stressed? Is it a way that we are looking at a situation?

Is anxiety taking over your life? Let's work together to help you learn the skills and access the knowledge that you already have to make a positive change in your life. I will work with you using an approach that is suited to your unique needs. I can give you tools and to help you get to the life you want. I have worked with clients using cognitive behavioural therapy, solution focused therapy, acceptance & commitment therapy and mindfulness techniques. You are a person who is living with anxiety, not an anxious person. Anxiety does not define you, but it is possible to learn to cope with it. If you want a more fulfilling life, then call me and let's make that life possible.

Anxiety has become a common experience for many people today. I believe that it is important to have tools to manage the anxiety as it arises in daily life. These can range from mental tools such as visualization or physical tools such as progressive muscle relaxation. I also believe it is just as important to try to understand where the anxiety might stem from, so that you are able to begin to observe it instead of be overwhelmed by it.

If you have experienced that pounding heart, rapid breathing, out of body experience and difficulty concentrating you are not alone. Anxiety and Panic Attacks are extremely common and uncomfortable. Whether it is experienced driving, speaking in public, being with others, or participating in your sport... I can help you resolve this and begin to feel better very quickly. Our body has two nervous systems, one is the stress response which if you are reading this you are already familiar with, and one is the relaxation response which is very pleasant and comforting. In our work together I will help you resolve your anxiety/panic and re orient your mind and body to the relaxation response.

Angela understands that most everyone can relate to having felt some degree of anxiety or stress in their life. In fact, some anxiety & stress comes along with positive experiences or helps us to meet our goals. However, if anxiety or stress has been impacting your day to day functioning, Angela would like to help you gain confidence to cope with your thoughts/feelings and choices that may be impacting regular sleep patterns, regular/healthy eating, physical health, performance at work/school, relationships with others, perception of yourself or your overall ability to cope. Call today for your free consultation-no obligations

Anxiety and stress is what you experience when you worry, fear and become overwhelmed with things to a point that it interferes with your day to day functioning. There are various types of anxiety and reasons for stress. Psychotherapy and cognitive behavioural therapy can help you understand where the anxiety/ stress stems from, learn to recognize thought processes/ behaviours that cause these feelings and reframe them to more healthier responses.

Dealing with these issues can be extremely distressing and impact many areas of your life. With gentle support and guidance, I would love to help you reduce your stress by teaching you helpful grounding tools to help you cope better throughout the day! Secondly, we can learn to understanding the cause of your fears,. This can also be very comforting and helpful. It can reduce your concerns and anxiety. Their is always a good reason why we feel like we do! Finding better ways of feeling balanced in your life, or feeling safe in the world will be pursued. We hold our stress in our mind and in our bodies. Addressing both aspects is important for lasting change to occur. There is hope!

Do you long to feel more relaxed, and at ease with life? In our world today there is no shortage of stress. There are so many expectations on us from workplace, family, and ourselves. Without outlets for relieving stress, we begin to experience anxiety. With anxiety comes a heightened state of arousal that lingers long after stressful experiences. This can cause physical symptoms like headaches, back pain, and a queasy stomach, and emotional symptoms such as fear and avoidance. We have worked successfully with people struggling with anxiety (social, school, general, PTSD, and specific phobias from spiders to dentists) to live more enjoyable lives. Call us today to begin healing

I offer counseling that can help you change your thinking patterns that trigger your anxiety. This will help you change the way you react to anxiety-provoking situations. Anxiety can be expressed in many ways including social phobia, panic attacks, problems with sleep and heart palpitations . They can disrupt your normal life. With my support, many with anxiety disorders can lead normal fulfilling lives.