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virtual therapy for anxiety in ontario + across canada.
your brain never stops. Like, ever.
You’re constantly overthinking, overanalyzing and worrying about everything in your life: work, kids, relationships, money, health, the future. You know how you’re feeling isn’t good, but you have no idea how to NOT feel this way—if you did, you’d already be doing it!
Yes, you’ve done the journaling, you’ve attempted to sit quietly to meditate and “clear your mind,” you know all the breathing techniques… but it JUST. DOESN’T. WORK.
Now, you’re noticing these huge waves of anxiety that seem to come out of nowhere. You’re going along through your day and then, all of a sudden, you’re frozen.
Your heart starts hammering so hard, it feels like it's coming right out of your chest.
Your stomach gets queasy, like someone has it in their fist.
Your throat gets tight and SO dry, like you just swallowed a handful of sand.
Your breathing becomes shallow and quick.
You start to sweat, but your body feels cold.
And you know if you don’t get a handle on whatever this is RIGHT FUCKING NOW, you’re headed straight for the worst case scenario.
A panic attack.
So, now you’re here, on my website, looking for an answer that feels like a last-ditch effort: a therapist who gets it.
As you continue struggling against another wave of panic, you’re noticing your relationship with your partner is struggling, too. You see them trying to help; looking at you with pity and saying things like, “You don’t need to feel anxious about X,Y, Z.” But that just makes you feel bad about feeling bad! So, anger is creeping in. Rage. And then, isolation as you begin to pull away from them.
You notice your patience with your kids is pretty much non-existent, which is killing you because the kids don’t know what’s going on anymore than you do. And you don’t WANT to be the kind of parent who flies off the handle all the time, especially because it feels WAY too familiar when you do.
You notice work is your safe haven—until it isn’t. Maybe you’re staying way too late to avoid that uneasy feeling of not doing enough or being enough. So, you’re bringing work home and retreating with your laptop and headphones in hand almost as soon as you walk in the door.
And being social? Forget it. Who has time for small talk, anyway? Even the thought of leaving the house for an evening out seems pointless at best and wildly uncomfortable at worst.
You’re exhausted. But you can’t figure out a way to feel better. To feel calm. To feel like you’re enough.
how therapy for anxiety works
Anxiety shows up differently for everybody. That means how we approach it in sessions will be specific to how it’s showing up for you: not your partner or mum or bestie, but for you.
With that said, I’m more eclectic in my approach to anxiety therapy in terms of modalities and specific exercises we’ll use because one thing that works for one client may not work the same way, or at all, with another.
To give you a better idea of what to expect, here’s how I approach anxiety treatment with my clients:
No judgement. You feel how you feel, period.
Curiosity. If we can approach anxiety from a place of curiosity instead of judgement, we’re more likely to feel less overwhelmed by it
Somatics. We’ll notice how your body responds when your mind thinks, “OH NO! ANXIETY!” and begin to shift that response to one that’s actually helpful for you
Visiting the past. We look at how you were raised and by whom, your adolescence and younger years leading up to the present, because what happened then informs how you move through the world now
Therapy for anxiety will help you learn that quieting your brain isn’t the point; it’s actually what you decide to DO with all of that noise up there that matters.
When you’re open to learning more about your anxiety, and about the tools and techniques that help manage it, you will:
Understand what anxiety IS, and why it exists in the first place
Gain mental and emotional space from your thoughts and feelings so you can finally begin to calm down
Recognize your thought-, feeling- and behaviour patterns that lead to, provoke and perpetuate your anxiety
Stop judging yourself for how you feel
Feel better.
Trust yourself.
Allow feelings to exist without overwhelm.
Improve your sleep.
Prioritize your own care so you can care for others the way you want to.
Recognize you are enough, just as you are.
Build self-compassion, worth and value.
therapy can help you…
You don't have to let anxiety keep running your life.
You don't have to let anxiety keep running your life.
FAQs
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I’m bummed to hear you haven’t had a great experience with previous therapy, and I totally understand the hesitancy to try again. We’ll talk about what didn’t work for you before, what you did and didn’t like, and explore different ways therapy can help you that are specific to where you are now.
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In short, not exactly. Our past experiences can shed light on how we manage things in the present. Looking back can help us identify patterns in behaviour and thoughts that were learned as a kid that don’t work for you anymore now that you’re an adult. I will never ask you to talk about things you don’t want to talk about—but we can still do really great work talking around the big, scary thing(s) from your past.
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This is not the Anxiety Olympics. ;) Just because someone else is struggling with anxiety doesn’t negate the fact that you are, too. Even if anxiety affects you very differently, i.e., they have panic attacks everyday and you don’t, you still deserve to seek support for it if you want to. Plus, that other person who is struggling might see you going to therapy and decide they deserve help, too.