Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Toronto, ON.

People often come to see me for psychotherapy in my downtown Toronto practice when they find that they are struggling with anxiety-related problems, such as panic disorder, social phobia, anxiety disorders, and the tendency to ruminate excessively. Psychotherapy helps individuals cope better with stress through the use of relaxation methods, and techniques to help regulate excessive anxiety.

My approach to stress and anxiety is a gentle, body-based talk therapy. When we become stressed and anxious we can feel hijacked by our thoughts and physical sensations. I help my client's engage their body and their mind in a way that allows them to listen and make sense of the sensations in their body, the feelings and thoughts generated in anxious or stressed states. With a heightened awareness and understanding of themselves client's can learn to reduce and manage the physical sensations associated with stress, anxiety and old patterns keeping them stuck. The sense of control that this brings assists clients in being able to respond to their needs without being overwhelmed.

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.

Everyone experiences stress, and stress can be positive motivation to get things done. But when stress escalates it can be experienced as anxiety. Anxiety can arise when we lose touch with our feelings. In an anxious state, our bodies produce cortisol, leaving us in a fight or flight state. I try to help people understand the nature of their stresses and regulate stress through meditative, mindful or breathing practices. We explore the internal experiences – the feelings and emotions that escalate stress into anxiety. Learning to address these feelings gives us tools to deal effectively with challenging feelings, thereby developing a healthy sense of inner awareness and control.

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, worry and stress may often be sensed as feeling very unsettled, edgy, or not comfortable in our own skin. We try to relax but to no avail. At a pace you're comfortable with, we'll start right away to develop the best strategies that will help you feel more stable, grounded and relaxed while tackling the causes of your anxiety, stress or worry.

You have found your way to ending your anxiety and stress. This therapy specializes in anxiety, and uses proven techniques to decrease these overwhelming feelings, and discovering a life of peace and joy. As the anxiety ends your true potential in life emerges. The incredible abilities of who you are will grow, and find harmonious connections within your life. I have a real passion working with people with anxiety. Finding the right therapeutic relationship is really important, and therefore a free consultation is offered. Contact me to start your path of healing and growth. www.kenwalton.org ken@kenwalton.org 416-659-1617

Todd is Toronto's Anxiety Specialist! Having ended his own panic attacks and learned to manage his anxiety decades ago, Todd not only teaches his revolutionary technique to clients, but provides workshops across North America for mental health professionals so this powerful technique can help thousands across North America. All those other techniques like CBT and Mindfulness can be very helpful - yet when they are structured with this unique approach, you can expect quicker and more powerful results.

Stress and anxiety when present within healthy limits can stimulate, motivate, challenge, warn and activate our bodies to react accordingly to the situation. When it's too much, too intense and for too long, stress and anxiety lead to poor functioning, impairment and exhaustion resulting in stress and anxiety overload, contributing heavily to triggering anxiety disorders. In my therapy, I use therapeutic approaches and techniques that help reduce stress and anxiety and enhance the quality of your life and build your emotional resilience. You develop skills to minimize distress and maximize efficacy in many areas of your living and live life in a happier and healthier manner

Working with people who experience anxiety is something that I find very fulfilling. Anxiety can lead people to feel like an inferior version of themselves, affecting social interactions, familial responsibilities, work performance, and confidence in general. Stress is something that we need in our lives, to a certain degree. Without it, we would not have the motivation to do what needs to be done; excessive amounts of stress, however, can lead us to flight, fight, or freeze. Recognizing how stress affects us, and how to manage it in a way that promotes well-being is something that can be learned in therapy.

I possess the skills and techniques (i.e breathing, self-soothing, body awareness and mindfulness exercises) to increase self-awareness and acceptance of feelings. I’d be happy to assist you with overcoming your anxiety, stress and other life’s struggles. We will work together to overcome the negative thoughts and beliefs fueling your anxiety and stress and build up your resiliency for ongoing maintenance.

Everyone feels anxiety at some point in their lives but when it starts to interfere with your life, psychotherapy 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. Psychotherapy will help you to reclaim your life and function in a chronically stressful world. You will learn how to identify your triggers, and incorporate effective strategies to cope with everyday stressors.

Integration of talk therapy with holistic body centred modalities: Giving space for the client to explore and express feelings, own awareness’s, transform thoughts, grieve, vent, and neutralize guilt, anger and fear. New understandings and thus new neural pathways begin to form. Somatic focusing: A profound process of accessing the deep subconscious through breathe work And Life Coaching, meditation, visualization, Emotional Freedom Technique, New Decision Therapy, Polarity Therapy, Cranosacral, Reiki, forgiveness and acceptance work, supplements for brain chemistry balancing are very effective as well. Also CBT, EFT . The combination is powerful.

I teach clients techniques to release and transform anxiety and stress. Why "manage stress" when you can actually remove it? Using a combination of cutting edgeinterventions I show people techniques and strategies that they will be able to use to reduce or eliminate worries, fears, anxieties, insecurities and stress - on their own - for the rest of their lives.

In many cases, an integrative approach of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) and psychotherapy is used to help you manage stress and anxiety. Cognitive-behavioural therapy aims to help you change your emotional response and behaviour by changing your thoughts. If our thoughts happen so quickly and automatically, how can we change a stress response that is perpetuated by such challenging or negative thoughts? Using cognitive-behavioural strategies, we can slow down the thought process by creating a heightened awareness of them. As we observe them, we can make significant changes in our automatic thoughts, and subsequently, change our emotional response and the way we respond as a result.

Distracted? Distressed?Shy? Anxiety and Stress can have an impact on your daily living, and can take many forms. Our therapists will work with you using an integrated approach to ease your anxious thoughts and feelings, and manage your stress effectively. Our therapists incorporate your goals with techniques such as mindfulness based relaxation, worry exposure, increasing self-esteem, revising distorted beliefs, and relapse prevention.

Anxiety can can be a debilitating condition that can significantly affect your overall quality of life. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is one of the most research therapies when it comes to the treatment of anxiety disorders. Whether you suffer from stress, panic attacks, social anxiety, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), or General Anxiety Disorder (GAD), I can help you help better manage your anxiety. In my practice, I use a high individualized and tailored approach to help you better understand the signs, symptoms, and patterns of your anxiety and develop stress and anxiety management strategies that can improve your overall quality of life.

Stress in our lives may come from work, school, family, friends, or a host of other things. Unresolved stress can result in an emotional state that causes us to think, analyze, replay, and ruminate which leads to anxiety, loss of sleep, and more stress. If left unaddressed this can manifest itself in physical ways including nutritional deficiency, deterioration of the immune system, etc. I work with people to understand the root cause of anxiety and stress and to heal it. Ultimately healing can come from creating understanding through talk therapy, or from learning to quiet the mind using mindfulness mediation techniques, or both.

Often, chronic anxiety and stress have deep roots. Sometimes, they come from a lack of childhood safety. This makes it hard to relax into feeling good, even when things are going great. Together, we will find the source of your distress and resolve it. We will also devise new effective strategies for self-soothing and managing stress. I will help you get used to feeling safe and confident within yourself in the here and now. So being present without anxiety can become your new norm!

I offer a safe, nonj-judgemental environment to to my clients so we may explore what is troubling them internally and externally. I offer them the opportunity to express their fears and anxieties and help to strengthen their emotional responses to them. It helps them to deal with their daily problems and re-take charge of their life. I use an integrated approach incorporating techniques from Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy to effect positive changes for my clients. Many report improvements within a short period of time, indicating feeling more energy, work productivity, better relationships, and better overall happiness.

Anxiety is internalized prolonged internal stress. Often people are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. It is completely understandable with the world we live in today and all the expectations placed on we can often become overwhelmed. It can be a forever on going pressure from anything such as, ageing; being alone; illness losing a job/family member/possession. Things that require action can also be heavy stress factors; relationships; losing weight; intimacy; career. Our inner state of mind; feeling rejected, like a failure; low self-image. Etc. "This is not true you have handled everything up till now". Reaching out for support is the first step to creating change.

Mindfulness-based therapy is the primary approach I use with clients to provide tools and skills for managing and reducing stress and anxiety. For stress and anxiety issues, it is important to realize that most stress and anxiety is caused by mental habits and specific thoughts, and addressing those thoughts - and changing them - is a very effective way of learning to manage your anxiety.

I use strategies from CBT and solution-focused therapy to help my clients address anxiety issues. This may involve using thought records or other tools to get clients to examine the basis of their stress and anxiety and explore how negative assumptions and negative internal dialogue may be contributing to their distress. I also focus on making positive lifestyle changes to build clients' resiliency and help them develop more functional coping strategies. I draw on my background in the health and fitness field to assist clients in achieving mind/body wellness through proper self-care (exercise, nutrition, stress management strategies, etc.)

Stress and anexity can really be harmful. So whatever you are able to do to be a little less stressed out or anxious is the right thing to do! There is no one correct approach as everyone has a different experience and different needs. I can help you look at your current life patterns and support you in making small changes to help you feel more at ease.

Anxiety is our body’s response to danger. We see a grizzly in the woods and we hold our breath, our digestion slows down, we release cortisol and adrenalin in order to enable us to run fast if need be. These are our survival instincts and we need them, depending on the situation. For many of us, however, anxiety occurs even when danger isn’t present. Trauma survivors can experience a sense of imminent danger even when it’s not in front of them. They’re on high alert at all times. It’s exhausting. And most of us have experienced some form of trauma. If you are experiencing anxiety, you likely are not getting the support you need. Together we will explore how to get that support now.