Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Cochrane, AB.

Our therapists have extensive experience working with mental health issues, such as anxiety, OCD, social anxiety and panic. Stress and anxiety are the most common problems in our modern world and manifests as either over functioning (perfectionism) or under functioning (procrastination). We feel that anxiety is at it’s core an adaptive neurological reactions to threat. It’s an early alarm system that allows us to stay safe. However, this adaptive system gets hijacked and the alarm starts going off all the time. We draw on both bottom up (relaxation exercises, grounding and mindfulness) and top down (cognitive restructuring) approaches to working with anxiety.

Are you experiencing repetitive thoughts and feelings that are pulling you away from the life that you want? Painful emotions and uncomfortable physical responses are often accompanied by overwhelm, reactivity, shut down, or avoidance. If you are struggling to express your emotions, find calm and contentment or make changes to the level of stress and anxiety that you are battling with we are here to help. Reach out to one of our registered mental health professionals at Mindful Centre today.

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 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.

Did you know that both stress and anxiety can be helpful? In today's world, we are often told that stress and anxiety is abnormal. Yet, anxiety is a feeling, a very important feeling and it doesn't always impact us in a negative way. Working with your own anxiety level and experiencing a meaningful life is possible. Tamara will do her best to try and help you on your valued path, with or without anxiety.

I help clients manage anxiety and stress with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), a research-based approach in which I am certified. I help clients with managing stress, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, phobias, health anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.

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.