Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Saskatoon, SK.

Anxiety and stress can steal your enthusiasm for life, reduce your confidence, and interfere with your life. If you have been experiencing feelings of dread or fear or if you are fed up with anxiety stopping you from doing the things you would like to do, there are a variety of counseling approaches and techniques that I can employ to help. Together we will work to help you overcome the negative thoughts and beliefs that fuel your anxiety and adopt strategies to increase your resilience.

Anxiety and stress can take over our bodies, making it extremely difficult to move and show up throughout the day. Taking a look at how anxiety and stress shows up in the body will provide us with some insight into what is going on with the nervous system. By working together we can start to see what past or current triggers are occurring and how this is impacting the body. By uncovering these triggers and learning key tools this can create less stress and anxiety and more calm and peace.

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.

Are you living your life constantly feeling on-edge? Are you a worrier who can't seem to turn it off? Does anxiety or stress keep you from being fully present for your family? As an anxiety and stress specialist, I know rough this can be. But there is hope. Together, we can deploy powerful techniques to get you feeling calm, relaxed, and emotionally thriving, so you can effectively deal with life challenges. Imagine: going about your day feeling excited rather than worried, confident rather than stressed, and focused rather than scattered. If you’re ready to stop worrying and start living, reach out.

Everyone experiences anxiety and stress at some point in their lives. It is a normal process to protect us from real danger. However, anxiety can become overwhelming and rob us of our joy and peace in life, affecting us physically, mentally, and emotionally. The many stressors of life, such as losing a job, endinga relationship, being discriminated against, moving, experiencing a loss or a serious illness, or even going through a positive change in life can be debilitating. Sometimes our ways of coping can be destructive. I can help you to find ways to help you manage and cope with the stressors in your life so that you can experience less anxiety and gain healthier ways of coping.

Bev gently works with clients to help them tame their anxiety. Bev uses techniques to help clients get to the root of the anxiety and to work to resolve the issue. Bev works with clients to help them recognize first degree emotions and how to process those emotions so they begin to have mastery over them, and in the process, become more assertive about their needs. Bev teaches clients to recognize their own stress and stressors. Bev helps clients have inner permission to de-stress and helps client explore ways to de-stress and methods of de-stressing. Bev also helps clients appreciate stress as in eustress or optimal stress, as well as to recognize the lack of challenge or over-stress.

Anxiety and stress can rob you of the ability to enjoy life, reduce your productivity, and frazzle your nerves. I will help you better understand how anxiety specifically affects you. Using evidence-based methods, we will develop a plan to reduce your stress. You will learn how to create calm in your body and your mind. You will improve your concentration, identify personal strengths, increase your self-esteem, find that you have more patience, and be able to enjoy life again.

Living with PTSD can be a daunting journey, but healing is attainable. Jared specializes in personalized counseling services crafted to suit your unique experiences with PTSD. By employing cognitive-behavioral strategies and trauma-focused interventions, Jared aids in symptom management, memory processing, and coping skill development, enabling you to reclaim control over your life. With his empathetic support, Jared guides you toward post-traumatic growth and renewed vitality, helping you navigate the path to recovery with resilience and understanding.

In working with anxiety and stress we will talk about the larger 'problem' and think of different ways of framing or addressing it. This will occur over several sessions. In each session however we will introduce or practice a technique that the client can use to manage the symptoms of anxiety. Some of the techniques are visual, but I also usually do 5 minutes of meditation or breathing exercises. I used to live in India and credit my yoga instructors there for the breathing exercises I have learned to cope with anxiety. I always ask clients at the end of the session what their 'take-away' is, and we collaborate on a short and long term plan moving forward.

Are you feeling overwhelmed? Anxiety can arise from real or perceived threats, leaving you feeling like your internal resources are insufficient to cope. It can immobilize or drive you to avoid uncomfortable thoughts and fears of potential outcomes. Life inherently carries moments of angst, but often, we find ourselves needlessly consumed by worries about the future – many of which may never materialize. I'm here to help you unravel the roots of your anxious thoughts, drawing from your past and present experiences to identify strengths and new coping techniques. Through this process, you'll gradually experience reduced anxiety and heightened self-esteem.

Life throws many surprises at us, and while we cannot predict the outcome of any situation, we can take control of how we respond to certain situations. In our sessions, you’ll learn about acceptance and how to exert your power of choice over whatever life may throw at you. I utilize an integrated approach that combines neuroscience, cognitive, behavioural, somatic and mindfulness interventions to help you overcome overwhelm and cope with all life's surprises.

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.

Anxiety is a natural response to stress and everyone experiences some anxiety. Anxiety becomes a problem when it persists long after the incident is over or the level of anxiety is over the top and out of proportion to the triggering factors. Unhealthy anxiety can severely limit your enjoyment of life and put unnecessary stress on you mind and body. Imagine living your life free of unnecessary anxiety. Imagine breathing easy and feeling at peace. Susan will help you discover the underlying causes of your anxiety and learn ways to change your mind and your body to release anxiety and better cope with stress and triggers.