Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Surrey, BC.

Everyone feels anxiety at some point in their lives but when it starts to interfere with your life, counseling can help. Although anxiety can feel debilitating, it is treatable. People with anxiety don’t always share the same symptoms, they vary from person to person. Therapy will help you to reclaim your life and function in a chronically stressful world.

Stress can come from many different sources, such as work pressures, family or relationship worries, physical ailments or illnesses, or events of an unexpected nature. I provide a comfortable, encouraging, and supportive environment in which you can discuss your symptoms and situation, unburden yourself, and learn coping strategies that will help you make sense of the chaos and feel better.

Exhausted? Worried all the time? Stress and Anxiety issues can effect all facets of our life. Counselling can provide clients with a safe environment to explore the issues creating the stress and anxiety in their life. Learn techniques to minimize stress and to cope with the major stress life throws at us. Counselling can provide support and assistance to take control of our anxiety and to move forward in a more positive fashion. Call to discuss how counselling can help you.

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.

Do you feel that your worries are overwhelming and prevent you from enjoying life? Anxiety and stress can do that to many of us. I offer a caring, safe space for you to share your story. I use cognitive-behaviour therapy to help tame your worries, and I offer mindfulness strategies that help calm the body and mind. I utilize neuroscience to help you gain confidence that you can control anxiety and stressful feelings.

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.

Even though anxiety can be debilitating, it is very treatable. In my treatment of anxiety spectrum disorders, which include generalized anxiety, phobias, and social anxiety disorder, I employ an evidence-based approach that integrates cognitive-behavioural therapy with the principles of mindfulness. Using this approach, I not only help clients to challenge and modify anxiety-provoking thoughts, but I also teach them to "let thoughts be thoughts" while they commit to a course of action that brings change and fulfillment. With this approach, many of my clients have found a way to cope effectively with their stressors and reclaim their lives from anxiety.

Anxiety and Stress are approached with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Education and coping / management techniques are explored, as well as 'homework' in the form of skills practise. People should expect a clear therapy plan to reduce their experience of anxiety and increased confidence in learning how to manage and cope. With children / youth often Art Therapy and / or Play therapy is integrated into the counselling. Parents of kids should expect to be involved and supported in their awareness of anxiety and stress and how to assist their children in management.

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.

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.

Do you live under a heavy cloud that weighs you down preventing you from being even the shell of who you once were? Have you given up the desires and joys in life you once held dear as you are held prisoner from feelings of fear? Are your loved ones getting fed up, as your stress and anxiety has become a barrier for them too? Is it time you dealth with these feelings and romoved the bars from the doors and windows of the cell you live in and live the life you only now dream of re-entering. Let me help you. We can do it together. You no longer need to face this alone. I know it sounds hard and you are scared, but I an assure you, it is possible to be you again!

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

Anxiety can create fears, threat safety, clients need to recognise their stress levels, their coping skills, and how their respond to stress. My treatment plan involves searching ways to help clients talk through strategies for comprehending and coping with anxiety. Understanding how they regulate their emotions when faced with stress and discovering the underlying issues behind the anxiety, is vital to the healing process.

In therapy sessions clients will benefit from exploring the causes and contributing factors underlying the feelings of anxiety they are experiencing. Clients will identify stressors in their lives and identify how these stressors are effecting their emotional and physical well-being. They will learn strategies and skills to more effectively manage stress and anxiety, and learn to change their emotional reactions to stressful situations. It is my hope that clients will discover the capabilities that exist within themselves to create the peace and calm they wish to attain in their lives.

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.

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.

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.

We all have anxiety and stress! It is a matter of how we manage this challenge in our daily lives. Often the anxiety and stress overwhelm us to the point of feeling hopeless! But there certainly is hope and with some consistent therapy and support one can be feeling significantly better after only a few sessions. Once we dissect the overwhelming feelings we begin to understand the underlying issues at the root cause. While medication is an option, quite often it is not necessary as psychotherapy is effective.

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

While most treatment approaches for anxiety and stress are effective on the surface, they don’t treat the real problem. Mantras, deep breathing, and rational dialogues about your fear being irrational rarely work---for most people don’t believe it or you! Imagine if you can trick the brain into changing without you telling your conscious mind that you are changing it? Problem with anxiety and stress is that the brain in this state knows you want to change it and it resists. Contact Kevin@kevinfleminphd.com for the ultimate stress and anxiety solution that will literally change your brain's autonomic nervous system patterns while you sit on your butt. 877-606-6161.

Anxiety We all experience anxiety in some form in our daily lives — perhaps as a result of a new relationship, a new job, financial struggles, or a move to a new community. It is part of the human experience. However, when anxiety persists and hinders an individual from functioning properly during daily activities, it may be a sign of a deeper problem. Some symptoms of an anxiety disorder include unmanageable apprehension about routine events, bouts of intense anxiety, fear of certain situations, and unwanted thoughts. Panic attacks — short bouts of overpowering anxiety — are another symptom. Panic attacks often cause an increased heart rate, shortness of breath, shaking, chest pain, and sweating. Individuals struggling with anxiety are often also...(view profile to read more)