Online Anxiety Counselling Across Ontario
Find relief from overwhelming worry, panic, and constant tension. Evidence-based virtual therapy for adults struggling with anxiety, offered by a Registered Social Worker with specialized training in EMDR and trauma-informed care.
Is Anxiety Controlling Your Life?
Anxiety isn't just feeling worried or stressed. It's when your nervous system gets stuck in constant alertness—scanning for threats, bracing for worst-case scenarios, and making ordinary situations feel overwhelming.
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You might find yourself lying awake with racing thoughts, avoiding situations because anxiety feels too intense, experiencing physical symptoms (racing heart, chest tightness, shallow breathing), constantly seeking reassurance, cancelling plans or pulling away from people, feeling exhausted from managing worry all day, or experiencing unexplained physical symptoms like headaches, stomach problems, or muscle tension.
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If anxiety is dictating what you can and can't do, therapy can help. Your nervous system can learn to feel safe again.
What Happens in Anxiety Therapy
Anxiety counselling addresses both your nervous system responses and what fuels the worry in your mind. It's not about "thinking positive" or "calming down"—it's understanding why your brain perceives danger and helping soothe your nervous system.
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Understanding Your Pattern - We map your unique anxiety pattern: what triggers it, how it manifests in your body, what you do to manage it, how it affects your life, and where it might have originated.
Building Regulation Tools - We develop practical skills, including grounding techniques to bring you back to the present, nervous system regulation to shift out of fight-or-flight, and cognitive tools to challenge thought patterns that fuel anxiety. These tools help you stay grounded while we address underlying causes.
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Processing What's Underneath - Anxiety often has roots in unprocessed trauma, childhood experiences of unpredictability or pressure, attachment patterns creating relationship anxiety, or past experiences where you felt helpless or out of control. We use EMDR to process underlying experiences and Internal Family Systems to address the parts carrying fear and the parts trying to protect you by controlling everything.
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The goal isn't just reducing symptoms—it's helping your nervous system genuinely feel safer so anxiety stops running your life.
How I Support Clients With Anxiety
Anxiety often stems from your nervous system learning to stay in heightened alertness due to unpredictable environments, trauma, chronic stress, or hypervigilant relationships. That response made sense then, but now it causes problems.
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I work with your nervous system, not against it, helping it understand danger has passed through reprocessing and rewiring—not force or willpower.
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EMDR for Anxiety - If anxiety stems from past experiences when you felt unsafe, embarrassed, helpless, or overwhelmed, EMDR helps your brain reprocess those experiences so they no longer trigger intense present reactions.
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Internal Family Systems - IFS recognizes that anxiety comes from protective parts. We work with these parts to help them relax so you can access the calm, grounded parts anxiety has covered up.
Cognitive and Skills Work - I teach practical tools: identifying and challenging anxious thought patterns, distinguishing realistic concerns from anxiety-driven catastrophizing, building tolerance for uncertainty, gradual exposure through EMDR future templates, and somatic techniques for calming fight-or-flight responses.
What I Don't Do - I don't just tell you to "think positive" or "stop worrying." Anxiety isn't a choice or character flaw—it's a pattern your nervous system developed requiring more than surface-level advice.
Different Forms of Anxiety
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) - The "always worried about something" type where your mind jumps from health to finances to relationships. Symptoms include constant body tension, difficulty concentrating, irritability, sleep trouble, and physical exhaustion.
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Panic Disorder - Sudden, intense episodes where your heart races, breathing becomes difficult, and you feel dizzy or nauseous with an overwhelming sense that something terrible is happening. This leads to avoiding places where you've panicked and constant body monitoring.
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Social Anxiety - Intense fear of being judged, embarrassed, or rejected. You might avoid eye contact, speaking up, or gatherings; replay conversations afterward; experience physical symptoms like blushing or trembling; and decline invitations to avoid discomfort.
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Health Anxiety - Persistent worry about having or developing serious illness. You interpret normal sensations as illness signs, avoid or excessively seek medical appointments, spend hours researching symptoms, and fear health uncertainty.
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Relationship Anxiety - Persistent worry about relationships with constant fear of abandonment, need for reassurance, overthinking interactions, difficulty trusting others care about you, and sabotaging relationships expecting rejection.
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Performance Anxiety - Fear of evaluation in work presentations, creative pursuits, tests, or intimate situations where anxiety about failing interferes with performance.
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Existential Anxiety - Worry about meaning, purpose, mortality, or freedom, often arising during major life transitions.
Take the First Step Toward Rewiring Your Nervous System
Anxiety doesn't have to dictate your life. You don't have to keep white-knuckling your way through situations that should feel manageable. You don't have to decline opportunities, avoid people, or constantly brace yourself for the worst.
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You've been carrying this alone for long enough. Let's work on it together.
Here are the next steps:
1. Book a free 15-minute consultation
We'll talk about what you're experiencing and whether anxiety therapy is right for you. No pressure, just a conversation.
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2. Schedule your first session
If we decide to work together, we'll book your first 60-minute session at a time that works for you. Evening appointments available.
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3. Start building relief
We'll begin with practical tools you can use right away, then move into deeper work to address the roots of your anxiety.
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4. Reclaim your life
As your nervous system calms and patterns shift, you'll notice you can do things with greater ease and confidence.
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You deserve to feel at ease in your own life. I'm here to help you get there.
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Serving adults across Ontario, including Toronto, Ottawa, Mississauga, Brampton, Hamilton, London, Markham, Vaughan, Kitchener, Windsor, Newmarket, Bradford, Richmond Hill, Aurora, Innisfil, Barrie, Orillia, Muskoka (Gravenhurst, Bracebridge, Huntsville), North Bay, Sudbury, Kingston, and surrounding communities!
Day and Evening appointments available.