Anxiety treatment and mental health support to understand and interact with anxiety to live a more fulfilled life.
Anxiety is a signal of a potential threat to living fully. There are many ways that life can feel uncertain. Sometimes anxiety can have roots in our history, sometimes it is more related to the current order of life, or even in not feeling meaning or purpose.
In our therapy for anxiety sessions, we help you learn how to build a healthy relationship with your feelings of anxiety, depending on your specific context. Once we understand the messages in your anxiety, we can learn to address it effectively.
Phenomenology is the study of experience and is the first step in existential anxiety therapy. This means exploring your experience of anxiety to better understand what is going on exactly. This informs our anxiety treatment.
One way of addressing this kind of anxiety in therapy is to build a relationship with feelings of anxiety. In this type of anxiety therapy, we can:
Existential anxiety can come from not feeling secure in life or the world. Sometimes we do not feel held in life, or grounded, or trusting of life. Sometimes we do not have a feeling of meaning or purpose in life. These can all cause an existential kind of anxiety (an anxiety that is about that or how we exist).
In these cases, we address anxiety by building capacity to act in the world, to stand with ourselves, or by building a relationship with life in a healthy way.
Anxiety is a signal that our body gives us about a potential threat to values in our lives. Anxiety disorders are a group of mental health conditions that cause fear, dread and other symptoms.
Some of the most common anxiety symptoms include:
Anxiety symptoms can manifest or come from a variety of places, including:
An anxiety disorder is a health condition that requires anxiety treatment, such as anti-anxiety medication, psychotherapy or psychological counselling for anxiety. If the root causes of anxiety are existential concerns, then existential psychotherapy is an effective anxiety treatment.
Check out the Canadian Psychological Association’s fact sheet for more information.
