Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Toronto, ON.

Anxiety and stress is not something that you have to just live with. It is a result of past or current life issues or upsets that is causing your thoughts and bodily reactions to work in a certain way. We will work to identify the causes of your anxiety and stress. We will create practical action plans that will help you to take action and control. We will work with your thoughts to uncover what thoughts are helping or hindering you to be relaxed. You will also learn ways to manage the physical symptoms of anxiety and stress.

One of the great quotes about living is from the famed psychologist James Hillman "Happiness is knowing how to manage anxiety" . We all have anxiety and stress, if it is or becomes a problem, then it is important to build our capacity and understanding. I practice mindfulness with my clients when it comes to anxiety and stress because it has been show to reduce the side-effects and to begin to build some understanding in order to help manage the symptoms.

Anxiety and anxiety disorders can severely impair a person's ability to function at work, school and in social situations. Anxiety can also impact relationships with family members and friends. Fortunately, there are effective treatments for anxiety and stress. I incorporate cognitive-behavioural therapy to help clients identify and manage the factors that contribute to their anxiety. You will learn techniques to reduce undesired behaviours associated with anxiety. Each treatment is tailored to your individual needs and your pace in order to create a safe space to help you learn to cope in a healthier way.

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.

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!

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

Anxiety disorders commonly coexist with addiction tendencies. Anxiety can severely inhibit a person's life, causing them to feel an irrational amount of panic, fear and other negative emotions in any given circumstance. Severe anxiety may influence a person to avoid leaving their house, or to become paralyzed in situations they interpret as stressful. Many people who struggle with anxiety will try to self medicate with alcohol or drugs, which ultimately makes their symptoms worse. A dual diagnosis of addiction and anxiety requires special treatment considerations; the kind that Valiant Recovery provides.

The unsettling energy, the shakiness, the constriction in the chest, the sweat, the tenseness, the palpitation and breathlessness that may at times seem almost impossible to control are all signs of deeper layers of feelings that need to be explored and expressed. There may be anger, sadness, shame, fear and even ungrounded excitement that are locked in and cannot come out in contact with the environment. In therapy we will create space, ensure the support that is needed to come back to the present moment and set the pace to get in touch with those feelings that are key for relief from anxiety and stress.

Do you sometimes feel so tense you could scream? Is social anxiety keeping you alone in your home and missing out on life? Maybe you're okay in some situations, but there are others where you could really use some help. There are strategies and skills that can help you. We will work with a variety of tools, including CBT, journaling and meditation, to reduce your stress levels and to help you get more out of life.

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.

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 and stress is apart of our daily lives.Stress can help us run just a little faster or work just a little harder but sometimes that stress starts to take over and we can no longer function.All we can do is feel anxiety.We can't find the tools and resources within us to help us out of difficult situations and we don't even know where to look to calm ourselves down.So many of us stay silent and suffering out of fears that if we tell someone we will be judged harshly.The opposite is actually the case:this is the time when we must reach for a trained psychotherapist to help make sense of what is happening for us.Together we can find out what is going on for you and change can happen.

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.

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.

I keep up to date with the latest and most effective treatments for anxiety and stress. As well as having an excellent handle on these practical strategies, both permissive and provocative, from a variety of experts in the field, I offer a more in-depth look at the underlying causes to access more permanent healing and management of symptoms. Anxiety and stress is probably the most common problem that I find amongst my clients.

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.

We all know "life happens." It's our reactions that makes all the difference in how we live our lives. If we can achieve a calmer state of mind and build up greater resilience, then you'll be better equipped to deal with the challenges that cause you stress and worry. You'll start to enjoy your life a whole lot more than you thought was possible. Healing is a process of growth and self-discovery and in our sessions, I promote behavioural transformation through various research-based methods that enable a person to "recode" the way their brain responds to situations and challenges. Influencing old and undesirable brain behaviours by reprogramming them with new attitudes and better responses.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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, 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.

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.