Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in West Kildonan, Winnipeg, MB.

For anxiety and stress treatment, I integrate mindful exercises in helping my clients to be grounded. Be using five senses in walking, drinking, eating, and doing other things, for example, washing dishes, to help my clients to be able to live at present. I may ask my clients which part of their body they could feel the tightness or chronic pain. It can bring awareness for my clients by paying attention to how their bodies react to the stress unconsciously. Tapping exercise is one of the interventions I use with my clients to stimulate their vagus nerves to release their tension.

Are you living your life constantly feeling on-edge? Are you a worrier who can't seem to turn it off? Does anxiety or stress keep you from being fully present for your family? As an anxiety and stress specialist, I know rough this can be. But there is hope. Together, we can deploy powerful techniques to get you feeling calm, relaxed, and emotionally thriving, so you can effectively deal with life challenges. Imagine: going about your day feeling excited rather than worried, confident rather than stressed, and focused rather than scattered. If you’re ready to stop worrying and start living, reach out.

All of us have times in life where situations create such stress for us that we find living difficult. Others of us have a lifetime struggle with anxiety and panic attacks. I can help clients get back on track and help with coping in order to manage life, and to counter the pull of our negative thoughts and feelings through cognitive behavior therapy and general support.

Whether you're experiencing social anxiety, generalized anxiety, phobias or symptoms of trauma and PTSD, living with anxiety can be very debilitating. You might feel a mix of fight/flight/freeze/fawn, and half the time it feels like you're either buzzing or mostly numb. Talk therapy often has limited effectiveness because your anxiety is not only a "thinking" problem. I often use EMDR alongside talk therapy to help with anxiety treatment because EMDR can help address the anxiety at the body level. Check out our practice website at empoweryoutoday.ca

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.

Anxiety as a result of stress is one of, if not the major contributing factor to poor health in most areas of people lives. If you have ever been tense before an exam or a visit to the dentist, you have a felt anxiety. Increased heart rate, sweating, rapid breathing, dry mouth, & a sense of dread are common. Changing this involves cognitive & behavioural approaches. Cognitive change is understanding how thoughts contribute to symptoms and how to change thought patterns to reduce the intensity of your anxiety. And behavioral changes involve using techniques to reduce or stop any undesired behaviors that are a result of the anxiety you have been experiencing.

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.

Anxiety tends to be an epidemic in our fast paced, technologically advanced world. Our external experience is busy, and our internal experience is often busy in reaction. Anxiety is made up of thoughts, feelings, and body sensations. I work with clients to slow down to become aware of what anxiety is made up for them, and to support them to develop more creative responses and resources to strike a new, healthier balance, even when anxiety arises.

The benefits from Anxiety & Stress Treatment Counseling may include relief from ongoing feelings of distress (sadness, anger, worry, frustration); ability to make sense of the reasons underlying poor choices helping him/her learn new ways to cope with stressful situations; discovering existing strengths from which improved self-esteem can build upon; enhanced opportunities for strengthening of relationships,;and/or learning to identify and express feelings in healthy ways, which may be at root of anxiety. Working together using strategies that calm, teach emotion-regulation, and self-awareness, clients are able to develop positive coping strategies to enhance life living.

Anxiety and stress are part of life, and help us to survive. Out-of-control stress responses, though, make life hard to bear. I will support you in implementing strategies to handle panic and stress when it hits you, and provide education around what’s happening in our body when the stress response is activated. Using dialectical behavioral therapy, I will help you learn mindfulness and other strategies to tolerate distress and regulate your emotions. We will also look at your lifestyle, and how family of origin and relationship patterns impact your stress levels. In some cases, where trauma is at the root of the anxiety, we may use EMDR to help the brain integrate and heal the trauma.

While our bodies are perfectly designed to adapt and react to stress, modern problems mean that we tend to detect life threatening dangers in very ordinary places. Conflicts at work, arguments in our relationships and uncertainties such as the post-Covid world activate old survival mechanisms. We may be stuck in the buzzing, fear states of ‘fight-flight’ or the numb and paralyzed states of ‘freeze and shut down.’ The good news is that I have a long history of safely and successfully helping individuals and couples to reduce and release stress using a variety of CBT and mindfulness techniques, as well as trauma-informed therapy. You have my commitment to compassionate and educated care.

To be alive is to endure some angst. But we often become needlessly knotted up and wracked with worry about so many future events - things which will largely never come to pass. I help bring you away from speeding ahead, back to yourself. I utilize Cognitive Behavioural training and tools, but also a vibrant and interactive understanding of what is driving your stress and anxiety.

Are you feeling overwhelmed? Anxiety can stem from an actual or perceived threat to your well-being, when internal resources are viewed as inadequate to cope. It can have a paralyzing affect or promote anxious activity to avoid uncomfortable feelings and/or thoughts of feared outcomes. As you learn how past and present experiences contribute to anxious thoughts, and begin to identify personal strengths and new coping techniques, you will begin to experience less anxiety, and increase self-esteem.