Anxiety Therapy in Toronto
You Cannot Quiet Your Mind or Your Body
You rehash things you’ve said during meetings or interactions.
You fret about upcoming events, and imagine every possible scenario.
When trying to sleep, your mind does not let you relax and your body feels tense.
Anxiety can be debilitating and can interfere with work, relationships, and social interactions.
When your mind is constantly racing or your body feels stuck in survival mode, everyday situations can become exhausting.
Getting therapy for anxiety can help you understand what is driving your stress response, can help you develop practical coping tools, and can help you create lasting change so you can feel calmer, more grounded, and more in control.
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Anxiety Comes from a Basic, Human Instinct
Survival instincts allow our bodies to get ready to deal with stressful situations.However, for many of us, these instincts may be overactive and cause our bodies and minds to perceive threats that are not of a “life or death” nature (thus creating feelings and experiences of anxiety).
Some common experiences of people with anxiety include:
Constant worry or overthinking
Racing thoughts
Panic attacks or sudden feelings of fear
Difficulty sleeping or relaxing
Irritability or feeling on edge
Physical symptoms like tension, nausea, chest tightness, or rapid heartbeat
Avoiding situations that feel stressful or overwhelming
Trouble concentrating
Fear of judgment or social situations
Feeling emotionally exhausted
We will work together to find therapeutic approaches that work for you and make sense to you.
Below are some approaches I draw from in my practice for treating anxiety:
-Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) to help address unhelpful thoughts, beliefs, and assumptions that can impact feelings, body sensations, and behaviours and to come up with plans to face anxiety-producing situations
-Mindfulness approaches to help you stay present and not become overwhelmed by the activity in your mind, and to help quiet the emotionally reactive part of your brain -Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help manage and build acceptance to difficult situations while building a meaningful life
-Narrative Therapy to help understand the stories you may tell yourself and the control those stories may have over you
-explorations of early and past relationships and experiences that have informed your current reactions
-Somatic approaches to help recognize how anxiety shows up in the body and techniques to address it
-Self-Compassion to quiet inner critics, reduce feelings of isolation, and build self-acceptance
Therapy for Anxiety Can Take Many Forms
Do I Really Need Counseling for My Anxiety?
Shouldn’t I just be able to get over my anxiety disorder on my own?
If it’s been with you for a long time, then you may need help. That’s not to say that you’re weak or unmotivated, it just means that it’s difficult to navigate alone. You may not have gained the tools, information, or self-compassion to tackle the anxiety, but a therapist can help you with that.
It’s only anxiety. It’s not really that serious.
Anxiety can cause you to be in a perpetual state of stress, which can in turn impact not only your emotional and social well-being, but it can impact your physical health as well.
I’m just an anxious person. Shouldn’t I accept that about myself?
Therapy for anxiety would definitely help you develop self-acceptance. But, the anxiety is not you. It is something that is happening to you. If you’re finding that your anxiety is getting in the way of participating in life fully, or making you avoid situations and/or people, you may want to change that for yourself.
I’m Here For You, When You’re Ready
Reaching out can be a source of anxiety in and of itself. I understand that.Get in touch, and I will make our consultation as comfortable and as supportive as I can for you. It’s okay to not know what you need from counseling. We’ll get there together.
1 Munro St, Toronto, ON M4M 2B7, Canada
In-Person and Virtual Sessions available for residents of Toronto, ON