Anxiety is experienced by everyone at some level, but there are effective strategies to manage it and prevent it from controlling our lives. Unconscious fears are also common and once identified, they can be addressed.
Addressing anxiety and fears involves a comprehensive approach encompassing the mind and body, unravelling behaviours and coping strategies and looking deep within so that we’re not just managing the symptoms we’re discovering and addressing the root cause. I do this by utilising a ‘bottom-up’ somatic approach to therapy which means there is an integration of the cognitive (mind) with emotions and sensations within the body (somatic). This awareness (beyond the spiralling, often confusion of the mind) gives access to a world of information to help resolve trauma, anxiety, addiction, emotional overwhelm, dissociation, impulsivity, emotion regulation and an inability to relax and be present.
Counsellor/Therapist, Master of Social Science (Human Services Counselling)
Work together to understand underlying fears, validate and sit with those fears and together find ways to not let the fear get in the way of living a meaningful life.