Orlando Anxiety Therapist: Tools for Anxiety

As some of you may know, I am a true advocate for regular mindfulness and meditation practices. It is so important in helping you maintain a relaxed, stress and anxiety free life. Is that not how we all want to start and end our days? In a state of relaxation? Mindfulness and meditation practices help us calm our thoughts and change our ways of thinking BUT it takes practice and consistency - it doesn’t just happen overnight.

Orlando Counselor Providing Tools for Anxiety Relief

It’s Sunday evening and you’re preparing for the week and you notice an undercurrent of dread, doubt, and anxiety. “After I get all my stuff done, I will feel better,” you think to yourself. The next day rolls around and it hasn’t gone away. You’re still feeling anxious and unsettled. Anxiety stinks! It pulls us out of the moment, whether we are with our kids, at work, or even at the gym, into a feeling of dread and darkness.

Guided Meditation for Anxiety: Four Elements

“I am so tired of feeling anxious all the time! I am not sure why I feel so nervous and have such a hard time feeling settled!” If you’ve said these words before, you are like most of the clients that call me for counseling.

Looking for Anxiety Therapy in Orlando?

Welcome to this blog series on alternative approaches for working with anxiety in Orlando. In this series, I will highlight local professionals and resources that help people that are struggling with anxiety feel settled and calm. Our second guest to be featured is Dr. Gulnora Hundley. She uses Neurofeedback to help people work through anxiety. She is located in the Baldwin Park area.

Orlando Therapist Providing Anxiety and Trauma Counseling

If you’re exhausted from feeling anxious and nervous, you’re not alone. So many people struggle with anxiety. One of the many tools I use with my clients is learning a guided meditation practice. Practicing mindfulness and meditation helps to stimulate the part of the brain that can discern the difference between an anxiety trigger and an actual threat of danger.

Orlando counselor providing somatic resources for anxiety…

When anxiety has a stronghold on the body, it can feel like frenetic energy vibrating throughout the body. When working with clients, I also notice that it often lives in the upper half of the body, as well as in the front of the body. In the body, this looks like tension in the head, neck, chest and shoulders coupled with a forward momentum in the torso. All of this is happening outside of the conscious awareness of the person sitting in front of me.

Guided Meditation for Anxiety: Calm Place

Having a regular mindfulness and meditation practice helps to calm anxiety in a natural way. It brings online the part of the brain that tells the nervous system that you are safe now. If you have been struggling with anxiety, I recommend you start a mindfulness and meditation practice, as this teaches your brain and nervous system the ability to discern the difference between a threat and a trigger.

Looking for Anxiety Therapy in Orlando?

Welcome to this blog series on alternative approaches for working with anxiety in Orlando. In this series, I will highlight local professionals and resources that help people that are struggling with anxiety feel settled and calm. Our first guest to be featured is Anastasia Bipat, LMHC. She focuses on using EMDR to help people work through anxiety. She is located in the Lake Nona area.

Tools for Anxiety: Know your Body, Emotions, and Thoughts

Feeling anxious, tense and uneasy and can’t seem to settle yourself? Are you tired of feeling all revved and jazzed up? Anxiety is vicious cycle of worry, dread, uncomfortable physical sensations, and difficult feelings of fear and worry.

Anxiety Therapist: 6 Types of Toxic Guilt and 6 Tips to Help and Heal

Tired of feeling ripped apart by guilt? Does making decisions feel like anxiety and guilt volleyball? “If I work late, I will feel bad about not being with my family, but if I go home, I will feel bad about not getting more work done.” No matter what you decide to do, you are plagued with anxiety and guilt. Does it feel impossible to do things that will allow you to take care of yourself because the burden of guilt is just too much to bare? If toxic guilt has attached itself to you like the Bubonic Plague, read on to find the type of toxic guilt you struggle with and tips for dealing and healing so you can have peace of mind.

Orlando Counselor Providing Trauma, Anxiety, and Relationship Therapy

Do you ever wonder if your decisions are driven by old worn out fear patterns or if you’re getting an intuitive thought or hunch? Do you feel frozen in your tracks because you are afraid you will make the wrong decision?

Orlando Counselor Providing Trauma, Anxiety, and Relationship Therapy

Have you ever asked yourself, “Is this fear or my intuition telling me not to do this?” “Is my gut telling me ‘no’ or is my fear holding me back?” About 10 years ago, while I was working through my own anxiety, I asked my counselor a similar question… “How can I tell the difference between my fear and my intuition?”

Orlando Counselor Providing Trauma, Anxiety, and Relationship Therapy

Have you ever felt stuck and limited by an ever so sneaky little voice that tells you things like, “You don’t have what it takes to succeed.” “You’re not worthy of true love.” or “You don’t belong here?” If so, welcome to being human. The ugly truth is, we all have Limiting Beliefs. They hurt. They get in the way of relationships. They are the root of our emotional triggers. And they hold us back from reaching for our dreams.

Orlando Counselor Providing Trauma, Anxiety, and Relationship Therapy

You’re tired of feeling bad and are thinking about reaching out for help. On the one hand, you feel a sense of relief when you consider calling a new counselor. On the other hand, however, you feel like finding the right therapist is a daunting task.