Anxiety Counsellor
Colleen Kelly, M.A, RCC
Registered Clinical Counsellor
17 Gatacre St, Office # 1 , Ladysmith, British Columbia V9G 1A1 | 604-655-8445
We live in stressful times and often the day-to-day demands of dealing with challenges at home and in the workplace begin to overwhelm us. Counselling can help to prevent problems with mental health by providing a place to talk through the stressors that bother us, resolve internal conflicts, and develop the skills to set limits and create boundaries with others. I use a variety of approaches in therapy to help you manage stress and resolve the symptoms of anxiety. Anxiety is a disorder that comes in many forms. I specialize in helping people resolve Generalized Anxiety (GAD); Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD); Phobias and medical procedure anxiety.
Anxiety Counselor
Valentina Chichiniova, RCC, CCC
Registered Clinical Counsellor, Canadian Certified Counsellor
Available for Online Therapy
Anxiety and panic are often driven by negative experiences or traumas that are stored in the brain and can trigger overwhelming emotional responses. EMDR helps to desensitize and reprocess these memories, reducing the intensity of the emotional response and decreasing symptoms of anxiety and panic. Through the use of bilateral stimulation, such as eye movements or tapping, EMDR can help the brain reprocess the negative experiences, leading to increased emotional regulation and a greater sense of calm and well-being.
Anxiety Counselor
Virlyn Collantes, MSW, RSW
Registered Social Worker
Available for Online Therapy
To assist and provide feedback to client's to enable them label their thoughts and feelings prior to developing coping skills and improve emotion regulation. With DBT -- identifying their thoughts and feelings is imminent, and to be able to tolerate distress. Moreover, to identify any automatic thoughts that may be contributing to anxiety and ongoing stress with their life, and mindfulness could be an additional emotional regulation coping tool.
Anxiety Counsellor
Kathryn Atkinson, MA, RCC-ACS
Registered Clinical Counsellor
41 Chapel St, Nanaimo, British Columbia V9R 5H3 | 778-762-3750
Everyone reacts differently to stress and there can be variance depending on what the stress stimulus is! Knowing how you respond can be helpful when learning to cope with stress or anxiety. Fight, flight, freeze, and appease are types of responses that are reactive to stress and anxiety. Flight response includes avoiding situations, people, or thoughts. Those who react with fight tend to feel frustrated and irritable. This can look like bursts of anger or resistance to situations and people. Those who freeze tend to shut down, feel like they are disconnected from themselves or the world, or feel stuck in the stressful situation. Therapy can help mitigate some of these responses.
Anxiety Counselor
Geoff Williams, MA MSW RCSW RCC
Registered Clinical Counsellor & Registered Clinical Social Worker
Available for Online Therapy
My office is a safe space to express any thoughts and feelings about your life in complete confidence. Sharing painful experiences under the Witness of an empathic human being has incredible healing power. Within this therapeutic relationship, we can use mindfullness practices, progressive muscle-relaxation, and Cognitive Therapy to transform your experience of stress into the present, balanced, and relaxed way of living that you have not had in a very, very long time.
Anxiety Counselor
Philip Starkman, MSW, RSW
Registered Psychotherapist
Available for Online Therapy
Anxiety falls along a continuum from acceptable to crippling, debilitating anxiety requiring professional intervention. The major forms that anxiety takes are: Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Panic Disorder, Phobic Disorders, Social Anxiety Disorders and Obsessive Compulsive Disorders (OCD). A variety of proven therapeutic interventions are well established now, eg., Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Yoga, Tai Chi, Breathwork. By diving into therapy clients regain a sense of optimism, courage and confidence in relationships, workplace and career, driving, aging, life transitions and more.
Anxiety Counselor
Heather Awad, MCP, RCC
Registered Clinical Counsellor
Available for Online Therapy
While our bodies are perfectly designed to adapt and react to stress, modern problems mean that we tend to detect life threatening dangers in very ordinary places. Conflicts at work, arguments in our relationships and uncertainties such as the post-Covid world activate old survival mechanisms. We may be stuck in the buzzing, fear states of ‘fight-flight’ or the numb and paralyzed states of ‘freeze and shut down.’ The good news is that I have a long history of safely and successfully helping individuals and couples to reduce and release stress using a variety of CBT and mindfulness techniques, as well as trauma-informed therapy. You have my commitment to compassionate and educated care.
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Thank you for visiting our British Columbia page of stress therapists in Ladysmith, British Columbia who are skilled and experienced in dealing with anxiety, worry, and panic in all its forms. Worry and stress can cause a myriad of physical symptoms and wreck havoc on both our personal life and our relationships. Counselling for stress and PTSD in Ladysmith, BC will give you healthy tools and help you move forward. Let's get started. Reach out to us today, our contact forms are "open" 24/7.
Ladysmith is located in British Columbia, Canada. It has a land area of 11.99 square kilometers.  The population of Ladysmith is 8,537 people with 3,710 households . The population ranking for Ladysmith is #464 nationally and #66 for the province of British Columbia with a density of 711.90 people per sq km. Ladysmith therapists serve postal code: V9G.