Experienced Anxiety Counsellors & Therapists in Calgary
Is anxiety dominating your everyday life?
Do you find yourself avoiding certain situations or activities to escape anxious feelings? Or maybe your anxiety is so overwhelming that you don’t do something that you know has to be done. Being overwhelmed by anxiety or avoiding it means avoiding the things that bring fulfillment to your life.
Our experienced anxiety therapists work with you to build a personalized plan to reduce your levels of anxiety quickly and help you get more control over your thoughts.
Start with a first free consultation and learn to reduce your anxiety in just 6-10 sessions
Understanding Anxiety
Anxiety is one of the most common psychological disorders. In fact, it’s estimated that over 30% of North Americans will experience an anxiety disorder at some point in their life. But what is anxiety? And why is it so prevalent? To answer these questions, we need to look at its evolutionary underpinnings.
Anxiety is a natural response to stress. It’s an essential biological mechanism that our ancestors depended on for their survival. When confronted with a threat, this “fight or flight” response would activate, preparing the body to either face the danger or flee.
But our modern world looks very different from that of our ancestors. And while our environment has radically changed, our biology hasn’t. As a result, this hardwired “fight or flight” response can get hijacked. This can lead to chronic anxiety—an overactive and misdirected sense of fear.
Anxiety Disorders
The first thing you need to understand about anxiety is that it is not a sign of weakness. Anxiety is a fundamental biological trait and a universal human experience.
Nevertheless, anxiety can manifest in many ways, including constant worrying, restlessness, muscle tension, and even physical symptoms like a racing heart or upset stomach. Some common anxiety disorders include:
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Generalised Anxiety Disorder
- Social Anxiety
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- Panic Attacks
- Agoraphobia
- and Specific Phobias
The unifying trait among all these disorders is the presence of unmanageable fear and a tendency towards avoidance.
The Impact of Anxiety
While anxiety is a normal part of life, excessive and uncontrolled anxiety can have a detrimental effect on your well-being. Not only can it interfere with your daily activities, relationships, and work, but it can drastically reduce your overall quality of life.
Anxiety often feels like a dark cloud perpetually hanging over you, keeping you from fully immersing yourself in and enjoying life’s moments.
Unfortunately, in the process of trying to reduce anxiety, many people actually perpetuate it. This is because the instinctive thing to do when feeling anxious is to avoid it altogether. More often than not, this happens in unproductive ways.
Instead of engaging in activities that bring value to your life, you indulge in accessible distractions like binging TV, Netflix, and YouTube, scrolling mindlessly on social media, or engaging in other compulsive behaviours.
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Anxiety Treatment & Counselling Calgary
The good news is that anxiety is highly treatable through counselling. With the right guidance and support, we can teach you to manage and reduce anxiety’s grip on your life. It’s a journey towards greater self-awareness, resilience, and a sense of calm.
At Viable Mindset, we treat you as a person—not a diagnosis. We know that your experiences are unique and so is the way that your anxiety manifests. Our mission is to help you break free from the chains of anxiety.
We draw from well-recognized and effective approaches, including:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Mindfulness-Based Grounding Techniques
- And many more
We also use Positive Psychology in our anxiety therapy to help our clients focus on their positive traits like courage, compassion, resilience, creativity, curiosity, self-knowledge, and wisdom.
Meet our team
Stanislav Pak
Registered Psychologist
Yvonne Bachoura
Registered Psychologist
The Viable Mindset Promise
As trained anxiety psychologists, our centre is focused on producing measurable results. Every third session we ask you to fill out a questionnaire. If the results indicate that your anxiety level is not decreasing, we will work to identify the obstacles and break through them together.
We also believe that reducing your anxiety is just half of the battle. The second half is helping you create the life that you always wanted, doing things that bring you genuine fulfillment and joy.
Don’t let anxiety hold you back any longer. Take the first step towards a brighter, anxiety-free future. Contact us now to start your journey towards a happier, tranquil, more viable life.