Are worry and fear making you avoid things and keeping you stuck?
Anxiety Therapy can help you find the freedom to live your life fully.
- Learn ways to calm body reaction
- Feel more in control of your emotions
- Find freedom to live life on your terms
Anxiety can be all consuming in both body and mind
Anxiety isn’t just in the thoughts in your mind. Anxiety shows up in the body in really uncomfortable ways that can make you feel seriously ill. Anxiety can make it difficult to have confidence to truly do what you want and share with others who you really are.
Signs & Symptoms
- Panic Attacks or the physical feelings of panic: I couldn’t breath, my heart was pounding so fast I thought I was having a heart attack.
- Generalized Anxiety where general worry thoughts seem to be all consuming: I’m forever thinking of the negative things that could happen, and how things could go wrong.
- Experiencing gastrointestinal distress such as bloating, gas, constipation: I find myself forgetting to eat & then I feeling guilty and overwhelmed with the thought of preparing food & my gut is all messed up.
- Phobias or extreme fear of certain situations, or certain things, such as fear of flying, fear of snakes, fear of needles. My son freaks out each time he has to have a needle, and it takes days of convincing to get him to go for an immunization.
- Social Anxiety or avoiding social situations: I feel like I’m going to make a mistake in front of my friends and they’ll laugh at me.
- Separation Anxiety or extreme fear of being apart from a loved one: I can’t sleep when my boyfriend goes away for work and I can’t focus on anything but what bad thing might happen to him.
THERAPY HELPS YOU EXPLORE WHERE ANXIETY COMES FROM, LEARN TOOLS TO MANAGE IT, AND HELP YOU BE IN CONTROL OF YOUR OWN LIFE.
Obstacles to Seeking Therapy
Going for Anxiety counselling means I’m weak.
The belief you are weak if you need help managing your mental health and your emotions is a false belief created by stigma that still exists in our cultures. The fact of the matter is that seeking therapy means you are courageous and are prioritizing your own wellbeing. This is a proactive step to take to learn new ways of managing in very difficult circumstances.
I’ll have to talk about my childhood and I don’t want to do this.
The belief you need to dig up all your old hurts and probe into your childhood is a common belief about therapy. The truth is that anxiety counselling focuses on what is most important to you, and teaches tools for calming and techniques to help you feel better quickly in your current life. The therapy journey is your time to focus on what’s meaningful to you, it’s for you and led by you.
I struggle to go to new places and talk with new people. How am I going to go to my counsellor’s office?
Starting a therapy process needs to be as easy as possible for you. With Transforming Tides Counselling we offer anxiety therapy over secure video sessions so you can be in the comfort of your own home when you meet with your therapist.
Anxiety counselling helps you regain control of your life and learn tools to reach your goals and have a fulfilling life.
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