Anxiety Counselling, Anxiety Counseling, Anxiety Therapy

Anxiety is a normal reaction to stress and fear. Everyone experiences anxiety to some degree. Anxiety is caused by our thinking patterns. For example, Webster’s dictionary defines anxiety as:

• A state of uneasiness and apprehension, as about future uncertainties.

• A state of apprehension, uncertainty, and fear resulting from the anticipation of a realistic or fantasized threatening event or situation, often impairing physical and psychological functioning.

Anxiety by itself is NOT a disease or illness, but turns into condition when a person becomes physically, psychologically, emotionally, or spiritually symptomatic, fearful, or distraught because of it.

Worry is anxiety, also. The Webster’s dictionary defines worry as: a troubled state of mind, anxiety, distressed, persistent mental uneasiness.

Worry results from fearful thinking about a future event or circumstance. 

While the effects of anxiety may feel like a random, unknown, and uncontrollable disease, it’s actually quite controllable. The problem is that most people don’t know how.

Anxiety conditions appear for specific reasons and have definite underlying reasons why they persist. Once these reasons and underlying factors are properly addressed, anxiety conditions can be eliminated. . .and for good. 

Anxiety conditions persist only because the underlying factors that cause them aren’t properly addressed. That’s why those who take medication as their only form of treatment generally remain on medication long term, or find themselves going on and coming off over and over again. Unless the underlying factors are properly addressed, anxiety will almost always persist or return.

Working with an experienced anxiety professional (an anxiety coach or counsellor, or psychologist who has personally conquered anxiety in his or her own life and is medication-free) produces the most effective results.

Note: It’s our experience that anxiety professionals who are currently taking anxiety medication themselves, and psychiatrists, usually don’t produce the desired results. We’ve found that those who work with someone who has successfully beaten anxiety in his or her own life, and has remained anxiety condition-free for an extended period of time—more than ten years--produces the best results. It will be their personal experience with anxiety, and their successful recovery, that can make a profound difference in your recovery.

We realize that this statement may irritate some anxiety professionals. But our experience has shown that this is generally true. Many of our clients have previously tried these options only to find that their condition remained, or for some, grew worse.

When anxiety turns into a condition, it becomes a disorder (a medical condition that involves a disturbance to the normal functioning of the mind or body). See our section on anxiety disorders for more information about when normal anxiety turns into an anxiety disorder.