The first step for Anxiety Counselling Sydney

In anxiety counselling in Sydney, our first step is to understand and explore where your anxiety is coming from.

Anxiety can be described as excessive worry – sometimes about specific events.  However, anxiety or anxiety attacks can also be very nonspecific.  It can cause a general feeling of fear, discomfort and worry that can stop us in our tracks at different times.  These feelings are explored during the anxiety counselling process.

Accordingly, the obvious causes of anxiety and anxiety attacks include fear of known and unknown situations. However, these are less common than the feeling of disconnection from others and even from ourselves. When anxiety is not detected or understood, we find wonderful coping mechanisms that hide it both from ourselves and from others. Part of how we delve into anxiety in therapy, is within our conversation. We do this by connecting to the different feeling states both of the mind and the body.

Symptoms of Anxiety and Anxiety Attacks

Both specific and non-specific body symptoms accompany anxiety.  These can include headaches, nausea, shortness of breath, palpitations, sweating, shakiness, stomach pain, an inability to talk or express ourselves, withdrawal, general aches and pains that come and go, stiffness, poor appetite, and the list goes on.

Coping Strategies during Anxiety Counselling in Sydney

Consequently, whilst coping strategies to manage anxiety and anxiety attacks are discussed during anxiety counselling in Sydney, we mainly explore what lies behind your anxiety.

Where it’s coming from, and all of the associated feelings, emotions, and behaviours that are making life and relationships feel like hard work.  Exploring anxiety can be an intense process. Often painful experiences including past trauma, memories, events and feelings are uncovered as they come to the surface.  However, it is always done gently, and nothing surfaces until you are ready.

Long-term Anxiety Counselling in Sydney

Our minds have a wonderful way of helping and protecting us, making sure that we only take on what we are able to at any given moment.  This is why long-term anxiety counselling in Sydney is always an option. This allows for the time that is needed to unfurl complex and overwhelming thoughts, feelings and situations.