Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Coaldale, AB.

Have you experienced tightness in chest, shortness in breath, rapid heart rate, upset stomach, or the urgency to go to your safe place? Anxiety can manifest into physical and emotional symptoms that can affect our thoughts, feelings, and sensations. We all experience different amounts of anxiety, and sometimes, it can be too difficult to manage and make one feel uncomfortable. Anxiety is one of the leading mental health concerns in Canada. Through evidence based research, counselling has been very effective for treating anxiety and panic. Learning ways to cope with the symptoms of anxiety can help manage anxiety so that it doesn't control us.

Everyone feels anxiety at some point in their lives but when it starts to interfere with your life, counseling can help. Although anxiety can feel debilitating, it is treatable. People with anxiety don’t always share the same symptoms, they vary from person to person. Therapy will help you to reclaim your life and function in a chronically stressful world.

Most people do not like feeling anxious or stressed. People are not saying I am glad to be stressed or anxious. What do we do when this happens. We need to process it and for most people counselling is a place for processing. Along with processing stress and anxiety comes a deeper longing to to be heard and validated and to sometimes be given new skills or strategies. What ever you need whether an ear to listen, heart to understand or ideas for coping with it I can provide it in comfortable environment.

Anxiety often has people identifying strongly with it. If you have a problem with anxiety, you are certainly not alone! Everyone affected by Anxiety has a unique relationship with it. Narrative therapy investigates how Anxiety keeps you away from the pleasures of life and explores new opportunities to gain control over your life. Narrative Therapy is a form of psychotherapy that does not treat people as disorders but as sources of knowledge and holders of their unique life experiences. We will email back and forth, it's just like talking to a friend only you will receive professional help on your own schedule. Effective, easy, convenient and completely confidential E- Counselling.

If you’ve been feeling like you’re constantly under pressure, or if worries have been your uninvited plus one, you're not alone. I'm here to tell you that working with a therapist can bring you the serenity you’ve been seeking. Imagine having a safe space to untangle the thoughts that tie your stomach in knots. Think of the relief that comes with learning strategies to still the racing of your heart and mind. With therapy, you transform anxiety and stress from overwhelming foes to challenges you can manage.Together, we'll work on techniques that you can use in the moment when anxiety strikes, as well as the deeper work that helps prevent those intense feelings in the first place.

Anxiety and stress are sometimes helpful responses and can carry important information for us about our current lives. However, they can also be overwhelming and come with sensations that are difficult to tolerate. I can help you learn techniques to soothe your body, regain balance, and address the mind chatter that may be perpetuating your anxiety.

Anxiety is actually our "friend", that is alerting us to something we need to pay attention to. So, anxiety first needs to be listened to before "managing" it. We could be feeling anxious because of medical reasons or past traumas are being triggered. Stress, on the other hand, is something we do need to "manage". If we don't manage stress, it will manage us. It is important to occasionally consider how much stress we actually are carrying and figure out what can be reduced or eliminated. We have only so much energy available to us to spend on our own unique load of stresses. So stress management is really about energy management.

[I OFFER VIDEO SESSIONS THROUGHOUT ALBERTA AND ONTARIO]. Anxiety and stress are two conditions that have treatments that work. Cognitive behaviour therapy, desensitization therapy, and hypnotherapy (all of which I practice) are often tremendously helpful. I have been a psychologist since 1986, and I can help. Set up a time to see me by visiting https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=14249112

While most treatment approaches for anxiety and stress are effective on the surface, they don’t treat the real problem. Mantras, deep breathing, and rational dialogues about your fear being irrational rarely work---for most people don’t believe it or you! Imagine if you can trick the brain into changing without you telling your conscious mind that you are changing it? Problem with anxiety and stress is that the brain in this state knows you want to change it and it resists. Contact Kevin@kevinfleminphd.com for the ultimate stress and anxiety solution that will literally change your brain's autonomic nervous system patterns while you sit on your butt. 877-606-6161.