Anxiety and Fears are emotions characterized by thoughts, feelings and physical changes. Externalizing the anxiety or fears can help separate yourself from the problem. This will give you the opportunity to look at anxiety or fear on its own and understand how it is impacting your lived experience. Anxiety or fears are only part of your narrative. By exploring your self-narrative we will be able to begin the process of reframing your stories to develop a more positive and beneficial narrative. Anxiety or Fears could be explored by either talking or creating artworks.
For anxiety and fears, a multimodal approach will be used with cognitive behavioural therapy and narrative. It will facilitate the identification of the anxiety or fears while creating a preferred narrative surrounding it.
I work with mindfullness, DBT and some CBT techniques to aid in the reduction and acceptance of anxiety. Anxiety is one of the most common human emotional experiences. We all suffer from it at certain points in our lives. Learning to cope and accept these feelings as uncomfortable but manageable can be the path forward to feeling more confident and grounded in your life.
The constant uncertainty of these time has made the most calm of us a little anxious. If you are someone who already experiences anxiety, this past year has poked at all of your greatest fears. Anxiety is a normal response, but that doesn't mean that it has to run your life.
I have had my own lived experience of anxiety and have found therapy very helpful so I work from a place of personal experience. I am trained and experienced in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy modalities such as Mindfulness integrated Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. I am also trained in Emotion Focused Therapy for individuals and couples. I have had lots of success helping people learn skills to better cope with anxiety and fears.