Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Russell, ON.

Living with anxiety and stress can become extremely disabling! Anxiety requires lots of energy and time consuming. Anxiety and stress can be explained by several factors, and if it not treated, and persist over time, the risks of burnout/depression are greater. If you are suffering from anxiety, you might know that it is now having an impact in all spheres of your life: work, relationships, social life, etc. Let's look closely at the causes of your anxieties, and let's work together to aim for a better quality of life.

Anxiety ranges from a minor annoyance to an absolutely debilitating state. I work with individuals like yourself to first come to a true and thorough understanding of what your experience with anxiety is like. How it shows up, what it feels like, and what causes it to show up. It is at this point that we can then explore coping strategies that are applicable to YOU and the anxiety that you experience.

Anxiety and excessive worry can present in a variety of forms; however, when these experiences begin to act as roadblocks in our lives, Counselling support can help alleviate these challenging feelings while fostering a sense of mastery over these pesky worries and feelings of anxiety. Using a gentle, understanding, and compassionate approach to Counselling, the client can begin to feel confident in utilizing new and effective coping strategies in the face of anxiety-provoking situations.

While anxiety and stress in certain levels can be a positive experience, anxiety and stress that negatively impacts our lives can make us feel trap and helpless. While treatment examines the historic causes/patterns of anxiety, clients are immediately given tools so that they are better equipped to manage their anxiety from the onset of therapy. Once the anxiety is manageable, other areas of the clients past and life are explored that are serving to create, maintain, and aggravate the anxiety. At the end of treatment, clients can expect to experience a renewed sense of calm, peace, and contentment as they begin living the life they want to live.

I have a broad range of experience in treating anxiety and stress related disorders, including panic disorder and phobias. In my approach, I integrate a number of evidence based practices, including cognitive restructuring, exposure therapy, behavioral techniques, and mindfulness-based practices, to enhance and facilitate a quick and effective recovery.

Dealing with anxiety and stress involves some understanding of the situation and what might be causing or contributing to a problem. Often it will be the unique way in which we think about something said to be our automatic thoughts and from there we learn to evaluate them for any sign of distortion. Our thoughts for example, may come across as catastrophizing or seeing only the worst in an event which will naturally lead to anxiety/stress. In counselling we can gain some valuable insight and achieve greater awareness learning to step back examining with a different lens and therefore expanding our perspective. This serves to allow for a more enlightened thought or mood to emerge.

When dealing with anxiety and stress, I believe in helping a client get to the root of this issue and change what is going on here, in order to effect a more permanent long-term shift in his or her anxiety and stress level. This is different than the typical strategies taught by others, e.g., relaxation and breathing exercises, "happy jars," which tend to be temporary short-term fixes, only to have the anxiety and stress resurface a little while later.

Anxiety and Stress are the most common issues that I work with. Anxiety can take many forms so I will take the time to understand the specific type of anxiety with you. We will start to track the anxiety frequency and severity to better understand it. We will then work in session on coping strategies to decrease the impact that the anxiety is having on your daily life. We will also work towards exposing you gradually in a way that will allow you to be better able to tolerate your anxiety and live with it!

Anxiety and Stress are both life and living challenges. They are part of the normal obstacles we face in our lifetime, be it in health, in illness, in marriage, in couple and relationship issues, in aging and with our children. The thoughts, feelings and behaviors associated with them can often overwhelm and even paralyze us when they occur. In a supportive and empathic environment I help people understand and demystify these feelings and find coping strategies so that they can overcome these crippling experiences in order to live productively again.

Anxiety is a fear based position stemming from a lack of control. There are varying degrees of anxiety, from day-to-day worries and stress all the way to life-altering, debilitating suffering. I can help you gain a healthy sense of self-control over your invasive thoughts and overwhelming emotions. At the same time, I will gently guide you to a deeper place of trust and dependancy upon the Lord. Anxiety and stress no longer need to rule your life - it is time to gain back the peace and authority that is rightfully yours!

When our sense of self is threatened we respond by experiencing anxiety. In verbalizing our anxiety we begin to see our reality with more clarity. We consider the beliefs and events on which we base our reality and examine our protective strategies and the consequences of our choices. We learn to expand our reality so as to include various helpful factors that we earlier omitted and that will better allow us to manage our stress and anxiety.

Anxiety and stress can present differently in each of us. Our experience may remain relatively covert - popping up at times when we least expect it, present as a constant low hum in the background of our day, or feel terribly overwhelming for much or some of the time. Each experience of stress and anxiety is valid and personal, and while you are certainly not alone, the path to healing is unique for all. I strive to engage meaningfully with clients by drawing from modalities that are flexible, holistic and collaborative. I prioritize your emotional experience, working alongside you to create a road map to guide you along your journey to healing. Contact me today to learn more about beginning

I use my easy and efficient practical course on stress management. It includes proper nutrition as a first line of defence and the application of various coping mechanisms such as self-relaxation, meditation, auto-suggestion, self-hypnosis, breathing exercises, visualization and mind reprogramming techniques. The goal of the program is to utilize and convert the overflow of negative energy brought about by stress into a meaningful life changing experience. I also define to the clients the many aspects of stress and its dangers and the ‘fight or flight phenomena’, the main driving force behind every stress reaction.

If you're struggling with anxious thoughts, you may find it hard to focus. The fight or flight alarm is going off in your brain, constantly sending you messages starting with "what if...." If worrying is keeping you trapped in a hamster wheel, tired, but unable to rest, you may find yourself turning to addictive substances or behaviours to cope. As an addiction counsellor, I help clients cope with the anxious thoughts keeping them trapped in addictive behaviours. By uncovering these underlying thoughts, I help you develop coping skills so you can gain a sense of focus, clarity, confidence, and freedom from constantly overthinking. Send me a message and I'll guide you through the next steps.

Learning how to manage anxiety & deal with the irrational thoughts or distressing behaviours associated with anxiety is an essential first step to recovery. Processing the deeper emotions & meanings associated with past & present day difficult life situations is also important to build a more secure, resilient self that is capable of facing the challenges of everyday life without becoming overwhelmed.

Anxiety is often the jailor in your minds prison. While being a psychological process that informs us and energises us, it can also be crippling. The sweaty palms, the accelerated heart rate and the restlessness may have their place in life, but when maladaptive it needs to be addressed. If you'require tired all day but awake all night worriedriving about the next day there is help available. Evidence-based techniques can help immediately and following initial relief we can explore the role of the ego in your experience of anxiety. There is help available. Let's work on this together.

Anxiety can consume a person's life, making it unbearable. I aim to help you learn to understand how your thoughts contribute to anxiety symptoms. By learning to change those thought patterns, you will learn how to reduce the likelihood and intensity of anxiety symptoms. Using behavioural therapy, you will learn techniques to reduce undesired behaviours associated with anxiety disorders. You will learn to manage your anxiety when situations provoke anxiety and how to manage and thrive in spite of the expectation of anxiety.

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.

anxiety and stress is the natural way in which our body reacts to events, to the unknown of future events. What would need to do is to identify what are those triggers that cause the anxiety and stress, as well as what is beneath those triggers. Once doing this it will be important to learn how to learn to deal with them and even if possible through the process of therapy cancel the triggers causing the anxiety.

Helping client's understand what the difference is between stress and anxiety. Helping them identify what is causing them anxiety and what stressors they may be able to eliminate from their lives. Offering clients a variety of strategies to cope with stress and anxiety --- exploring healthy lifestyle habits, work-life balance possibilities, learning to say no and setting appropriate boundaries, self-care, CBT strategies (such as using a thought record), mindfulness strategies (deep breathing exercises and progressive muscle relaxation), etc.