Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Hope, BC.

Molly uses evidence-based methods such as CBT, mindfulness, Internal Family Systems Therapy, and EMDR to build a framework for working with triggers, developing healthy coping, and fostering more calm and control in your life. Molly's empathetic approach will ensure that you feel heard and empowered as you work toward a more balanced, peaceful life.

If you're struggling with anxious thoughts, you may find it hard to focus. The fight or flight alarm is going off in your brain, constantly sending you messages starting with "what if...." If worrying is keeping you trapped in a hamster wheel, tired, but unable to rest, you may find yourself turning to addictive substances or behaviours to cope. As an addiction counsellor, I help clients cope with the anxious thoughts keeping them trapped in addictive behaviours. By uncovering these underlying thoughts, I help you develop coping skills so you can gain a sense of focus, clarity, confidence, and freedom from constantly overthinking. Send me a message and I'll guide you through the next steps.

I would help clients to learn about and practice mindfulness as it is instrumental in helping to arrest and manage anxiety and stress. I absolutely believe that talk therapy combined with mindfulness can be very therapeutic in managing anxiety and stress. I would also introduce cognitive behavioral therapy to help assist with change in experience and behavior. Raising one's consciousness can be empowering and life changing because it helps to assist in learning about self-care and how to do things differently by learning to mange the anxiety and stress in a new way. With the help of a variety of tools one can learn to manage their anxiety and stress in a way that is therapeutic and healing.

Dealing with anxiety and stress can feel overwhelming. Day-to-day tasks can be overwhelming. In our sessions, we'll employ evidence-based techniques such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help you identify triggers and thought patterns, giving you practical tools to manage your anxiety. The road to a calmer mind may have its ups and downs, but please know that you're not alone on this journey. With consistent effort and support, you can regain a sense of control and peace in your life.

Anxiety can feel like a trap and limit your ability to live a fulfilling life. Utilizing evidence-based cognitive behaviour therapy I can help you overcome avoidance and confront your anxieties. I also help you find healthy ways to cope and bid farewell to unhealthy practices, ensuring that you lead a successful and enriching life. I specialize in PTSD, OCD, Eating Disorders including anorexia nervosa, and generalized anxiety and acute stress syndrome. I create an empathetic environment in which we work through therapeutic approaches to find healthy ways of coping with anxiety and recovering from traumatic events. I also provide therapy in stress management and life transitions/adjustments

Are you carrying a heavy load, weighed down by life? Carey will help you chart a course toward emotional health and overal wellness. Learn to relax, reduce stress and anxiety while developing a more desired state of well being. Learn to quiet the struggle and access the inner depths of insight, clarity and mindfulness. Witness the transformation that can happen as you find ways to manage your worries and make more time for yourself through a journey in counselling.

Anxiety and stress are normal human reaction to situations. We encounter many pressures and stressors throughout our lives, and sometimes just throughout the day. Embodying tools (such as mindfullness practices) can help reduce physical, emotional and verbal reactions to stress and anxiety, and replace these negative reactions with the power to respond to stressors and anxiety in a meaningful and healthy way that keeps you grounded and focused.

My office is a safe space to express any thoughts and feelings about your life in complete confidence. Sharing painful experiences under the Witness of an empathic human being has incredible healing power. Within this therapeutic relationship, we can use mindfullness practices, progressive muscle-relaxation, and Cognitive Therapy to transform your experience of stress into the present, balanced, and relaxed way of living that you have not had in a very, very long time.

There are diverse ways of treating anxiety disorders, however, research shows that therapy is usually the most effective option. That is because unlike the medical model, anxiety therapy treats more than just the symptoms of the problem. I work with you to uncover the underlying causes of your worries and fears; learn how to relax; look at situations in new, less frightening ways; and develop better coping and problem-solving skills. Since anxiety disorders differ considerably, I tailor the therapy to my clients’ specific symptoms and concerns. Someone with anxiety attack will have a different treatment from a person who comes for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Together we can make it happen

The circumstances and issues that you are dealing with are unique to you, but you don't have to face them alone. Every individual has different experiences, perceptions, feelings, thoughts, beliefs, values, attitudes, cultural backgrounds and "upbringings". Counselling sessions are private and confidential, and can provide a way for you to explore your problems and really tune in to your feelings. This is an opportunity to speak freely about your circumstances and release pent up feelings, without having to worry about what others think or feel, and without receiving unwanted advise from family, friends or coworkers. At the root of the problem, there are very real, legitimate and understandable reasons for feeling the way you feel, thinking the way...(view profile to read more)

Anxiety can severely impact the quality of a person's life. It can impact their sleep, work, relationships, school, and their physical health. Sometimes, anxiety can become so intense that people experience physical symptoms like sweating, heart racing, dizziness, nausea, etc. The good news is that there are effective psychological treatments for anxiety. CBT (Cognitive behavioural therapy), which is the type of therapy I practice, is an evidence-based approach that provides individuals with skills to help manage their anxiety and get control over their lives back.