Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Rockwood, ON.

In my experience, the combination of schema therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is an effective approach to dealing with anxiety. This method digs deeper than CBT alone and brings forth insights that guide us to specific stress and anxiety management priorities tailored to your needs. This is an amplified form of CBT that will open a new door to your recovery.

I offer a compassionate environment to help you explore ways to regain a sense of balance, control, and inner peace. We will work together to develop practical stress management tools, improve emotional regulation, and focus on lifestyle adjustments for long-term resilience. If you're ready for relief, please contact me to schedule a free 15-minute consultation to see if we are a good fit.

There are multiple conditions associated with anxiety and stress, such as Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, Adjustment Disorder or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. These are all complex conditions that require specific and nuanced therapeutic approaches such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Exposure Therapy or Cognitive Processing Therapy. When delivered by a trained, qualified and experience professional, these treatments are considered highly effective.

Our counseling approach offers exceptional benefits for individuals dealing with anxiety and stress. Our highly skilled counselors provide personalized guidance and support to help you effectively manage these challenges and regain control of your life. Through evidence-based techniques, such as CBT, DBT and relaxation techniques, we empower you to develop coping strategies, enhance self-awareness, and build resilience. Our compassionate approach fosters a safe and non-judgmental environment, allowing you to express your concerns freely. By addressing the root causes of anxiety and stress, we help you develop long-term solutions that promote emotional well-being.

I believe that you and I are required to become an expert at dealing with work stress, relational stress, and personal internal stress. We need to be able to have sharp cognitive and emotional skills that other generations just did not require. When people come to me for help we work extensively at developing awareness, stress management and emotional and relational intelligence (IQ). I use a holistic model that incorporates the most clinically proven strategies that produce positive outcomes. If you are motivated you can overcome anxiety, panic and phobia. We have successfully run individual treatment programs for the last twelve years helping people just like you.

Anxiety and stress can be consuming and prevent people from living their fullest lives. I offer practical treatment to help people learn to manage and reduce feelings of anxiety for a more peaceful day to day life in which emotions and fears do not take over. Clients learn to challenge and reduce their anxiety with my support and guidance and learn calming techniques, thought challenging, and emotion management. Learning healthy ways to cope with stressful situations is also a priority. There are both physical, mental, and emotional benefits to managing and reducing stress and anxiety, e.g., reduced blood pressure, reduced muscle tension and aches, a sense of calmness, confidence, and so on.

Anxiety and stress can impact your health, relationships, and sense of fulfillment in life. In therapy, you can learn more about anxiety and stress and how they impact your daily life. With the support of a therapist, you can develop insights, strategies, and resources to help you thrive amid external stressors and challenges. I work with individuals, couples and families. Book a free consultation to explore if we are a good fit for therapy.

There are many approaches that are considered effective in addressing anxiety from: exploration of thoughts, behaviour, relaxation and/or mindfulness techniques, exposure therapy or exploration of unresolved issues/past conflicts contributing to present stress. The first step is building a trusting therapeutic relationship.Based on your unique goals for therapy, we will take an individualised approach to address your current experience of anxiety and/or stress.

As a Somatic (SE) therapist- mental & emotional health follows the state of the nervous system. If it is flowing seamlessly between sympathetic and parasympathetic; arousal and settling, within a “manageable range” there’s a deep, internal sense of well-being, emotional stability, confidence, clear thinking, aliveness, trust in self and others, and mastery. With SE we will focus on: Your experiences... in the body Learn to track, observe, describe what is going on for you Regulate internal arousal states, shift locked patterns into action, increase body awareness. Encourage emotional engagement with attention to: mindfulness, sensations, movements and impulses. Here & Now find YOU!

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.

Anxiety and stress are on the surface of our experience. They are telling us something is not right in our world, either interior or exterior. Finding our what are the causes of these experiences helps us to make different choices and move from being a victim of our experience to the creators of the life we want to live. It is a well established fact that stress contributes to 80% of illness so in this way, learning to deal with stress and anxiety is good for your body as well as your mind and spirit.

In working with individuals who struggle with anxiety, I use both a cognitive behavioural therapeutic (CBT) approach and eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. The principal aim of cognitive behavioural therapy is to increase awareness that thoughts and behaviour drive emotion. My aim is to increase consciousness of distorted perceptions, and then assist individuals in rebalancing those perceptions to be more accurate. EMDR focuses specifically on reprocessing traumatic memories that are at the root of the anxiety. Through EMDR individuals can come to terms with traumatic and distressing memories that underlie anxiety.

When our lives get overwhelmed with anxiety and stress it can be hard to ask for help. I commend you for taking the first step and reaching out. In our sessions I will create a compassionate space for you to talk about difficult topics without judgment. I use an informal, conversational approach to therapy where I incorporate techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT). I support my clients in developing effective coping strategies that enable them to live a more authentic and fulfilling life.