Anxiety Therapy

For those who identify as chronic overthinkers, intellectualizers, perfectionists and people pleasers.

Let’s learn how to calm your racing thoughts and impending dread.

Anxiety can feel like you have an elephant sitting on your chest.

Your heart may be beating rapidly, you may be sweating profusely, shaking uncontrollably, experiencing stomach or digestion issues, and/or feeling uncomfortable muscle tension and pain.

My specialized anxiety treatment will leave you with techniques to not only calm your nervous system down, but also challenge and reframe your thought process for lasting results.

How we treat it

An evidence based approach to help change the way we think about distressing events which assists in preventing uncomfortable emotional responses and unhelpful behaviors.
Example: You may have a thought that you’re going to be judged while giving your speech at school or work. The emotion that may overcome you could be anxiety and dread, which may lead to a behavioral response of calling out sick (avoidance).
We work on working on the way you think about the event to help prevent the chain reaction. We may also work on certain behaviors or emotions to help the chain reaction stop in other directions as well. It all depends on where the issue lies.
ACT assists in improving psychological flexibility by learning ways to accept thoughts and feelings without the added judgement. By doing this, we can work on staying present and move though distressing moments without spiraling in our negative thoughts.
Mindfulness is often associated with meditation, which it can be, but there is also so much more! Mindfulness exercises can be practiced to assist in finding inner peace, allowing thoughts to come and go, and to tolerate uncomfortable situations and feelings with ease.
Polyvagal theory helps us understand how the autonomic nervous system (ie. the processes don’t have control of, or are “automatic”, in our body) can regulate neural processes (ie. how we react to things in our environment, as well as other processes in the brain). In session, you will learn different exercises from this theory to help calm the body and, in turn, your mental-emotional state.
In session, we will work on finding the mindfulness and polyvagal strategies that connect with you and help ground yourself when anxiety hits.