Anxiety can take many forms, whether it's social anxiety, phobias, or a general state of anxiety that has accumulated over time and doesn't seem to go away no mater what you try.

 

Life can pile on stress and traumas that can develop into nervous system patterns of stress and anxiety that leave you feeling stuck and out of control.

 

A strong drive toward excellence or perfectionism in your work and relationships can be a gift and at times results in self abandonment and people pleasing.  There can be a tendency to prioritize others' needs at your own expense, or experience responses that feel flimsy, anxious, and shaky when others' needs are presented.  These challenges can be explored and often transformed through coming home to your nervous system and self.

 

An accident or injury such as a car accident can result in disruption to the state of the nervous system. The system does its best to process the trauma and return to homeostasis, whatever its baseline was at the time before the impact.

 

If the nervous system was already a bit unsteady, that impact can be a sort of “perfect storm” that throws things over the edge and makes it a lot more difficult to bounce back from the injury or illness.  There can be impact that gets wired into the system and creates a sort of looping stress response running on repeat.

 

Anxiety Therapy can address the more straight forward anxieties as well as the more stuck-in-the-nervous-system kinds of anxiety. 

 

You will be supported in building coping strategies to reduce spiraling out into emotional disarray and shutdown, build more capacity to allow space for the feelings and emotions present, and learn to befriend your anxiety in such a way that it reduces its hold over time.

 

You will learn to work with your own nervous system so that you can lead the life you wish to lead at a deeper core level.  When we learn to be with and feel the feelings, old traumas have more room to integrate and resolve. Newer issues are able to sequence through and resolve before turning into stuck patterns of habit.