Individual therapy offerings
Explore my main approaches to help you move forward with confidence, in healing your anxiety.
How therapy can help you
Healing from anxiety often involves working with the mind and nervous system in a few different ways.
The approaches below are gentle, evidence-based therapies that help process fear, change anxious patterns, and bring more calm and confidence back into daily life.
EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing)
EMDR is a therapy that helps the brain process and store difficult experiences in a healthier way. Sometimes the brain doesn’t fully process stressful or overwhelming events, which can leave the nervous system reacting as if the danger is still happening. EMDR uses guided eye movements or other gentle forms of bilateral stimulation to help the brain reprocess those memories so they lose their emotional intensity and no longer trigger the same level of distress.
EMDR helps the brain process the experiences that taught it to panic.
When those memories are reprocessed, the nervous system can begin to realize that the danger is no longer happening. As the brain updates these fear responses, panic, anxiety, and intrusive thoughts often start to lose their intensity.
CBT (cognitive behaviour therapy)
CBT is the recommended, evidence-based treatment model for anxiety such as health anxiety, panic, OCD and phobias. It is a practical therapy that looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. It helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and habits that can keep anxiety going. By learning new ways to respond to thoughts, emotions, and situations, people can gradually shift these patterns and develop more balanced and helpful ways of coping.
CBT helps break the cycle that keeps anxiety and panic going.
It teaches practical ways to respond to anxious thoughts, body sensations, and avoidance patterns so the fear loop starts to loosen. Over time, this helps people feel more confident handling panic and intrusive thoughts without being pulled into them.
IFS (internal family systems)
IFS is a therapy that views the mind as made up of different “parts,” each with its own feelings, beliefs, and role. Some parts may carry fear or worry, while others try to protect us from emotional pain. IFS helps people get to know these parts with curiosity and compassion, so they can heal old wounds and create a more balanced and supportive relationship within themselves. It is a much more relational approach that views the different parts as team players using old and misguided forms of helping and protecting - used in conjunction with CBT and EMDR, it’s a match made in heaven.
IFS helps you understand the anxious parts of your mind instead of fighting them.
Panic and intrusive thoughts are often protective parts trying to keep you safe. When those parts feel understood and supported, they don’t have to sound the alarm so loudly, allowing more calm and balance to return.
Panic, anxiety, and intrusive thoughts can make it feel like your mind is working against you. The good news is that the brain is capable of change, and with the right support those alarm systems can begin to quiet.
If you’re ready to start finding more calm, clarity, and confidence in your life, you’re warmly welcome to reach out.