Anxiety Therapy

The symptoms of anxiety include excessive, uncontrollable worry, restlessness, fatigue, muscle tension, and sleep disturbances.

Physical signs often include a rapid heartbeat, sweating, dizziness, trembling, and nausea. Many clients report intense feelings of dread or panic, causing severe disruption to daily life, work, and relationships.  

Common symptoms of stress and anxiety in psychological and emotional Symptoms involve constant worry, difficulty controlling worries about everyday things; restlessness, feeling on-edge, nervous, or unable to relax; fear, constant feeling of dread, panic, or danger; irritability, reports of feeling easily frustrated or annoyed; difficulty concentrating, reports of going blank or finding it hard to focus; intrusive thoughts, obsessive thoughts or worrying about the worst-case scenario. 

Signs of anxiety can also involve rapid heartbeat, a fast, thumping, or irregular heart rate; troubles breathing, shortness of breath or rapid breathing; muscular tension: aches, pains, or tightly wound muscles; sleep problems, difficulty falling or staying asleep, insomnia; digestive Issues, nausea, diarrhea, or a churning stomach; physical sensations: sweating, shaking, trembling, hot flashes, or dizziness.

We provide online therapy for anxiety and depression to treat the original cause of anxiety and depression.

Anxiety can be a diagnosed mental health disorder if left untreated, if it is reported to interfer with your daily functioning to the point that your capacity is diminished. While temporary anxiety is a normal reaction to stress, and anxiety is a natural motivator, anxiety disorders involve excessive, persistent fear or worry that interferes with daily life. These are common, treatable conditions, affecting roughly 30% of adults at some point.  Key aspects of Anxiety Disorders for you to look out for will if it is persistent and intense. Unlike normal worry, anxiety disorders do not go away and worsen over time. 

Types of Anxiety Disorders include Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Panic Disorders, Social Anxiety Disorder, and Phobias. Symptoms: Physical and mental symptoms include racing heart, dizziness, trouble sleeping, and an overwhelming sense of danger. Prognosis with treatment is positive. 

Anxiety is highly treatable with therapy with Gold Standard methods such as a combined approach with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Narrative Therapy, EMDR therapy along with healthy lifestyle changes.  If you feel anxiety interferes with daily activities or feels uncontrollable, please contact us.

Panic attack vs Anxiety attack 

Panic attacks are sudden, intense surges of fear with severe physical symptoms like chest pain or shaking, often peaking within minutes. Anxiety attacks build gradually over time due to stress or anticipation, causing worry and lingering tension. 

Panic attacks are sudden, unexpected; anxiety builds up, usually expected. Panic attacks can happen randomly; anxiety is usually tied to a specific stressor. Intensity of Panic attacks are typically more acute and intense. Duration of Panic attacks are brief, usually minutes, while anxiety can last for hours or days.  

Panic Attack Symptoms: Racing/pounding heart, Shortness of breath or choking, Dizziness or lightheadedness, Feelings of detachment or losing control, Fear of dying or having a heart attack, Possible Fainting  

Anxiety Attack Symptoms: Persistent irrational worry or fear, Muscle tension, General uneasiness, Fatigue or trouble sleeping, Irritability, Feeling overwhelmed  

Management and Treatment 

We provide a combined approach of psychotherapy to treat original causes of Panic attacks and Anxiety Attacks.

If you are looking for relaxing music for anxiety, we recommend you please go to ones without lyrics, usually piano, guitar based. However, if you are experiencing persistent anxiety, you may have disconnected your body to your brain, you may not be listening to your body when it is tired. Please listen to your body, you may not need music, but to evaluate your sleep and implementing napping into your lifestyle approach. We recommend sleeping until your body cannot sleep anymore, and napping the moment you are tired, if your schedule allows.

Anxiety is characterized by excessive fear, worry, and high-strung energy focused on future threats, while depression involves low energy, sadness, and loss of interest, often focused on past or present feelings. Although distinct, they share symptoms like irritability and poor focus, and frequently co-occur which makes it common the question if you are wondering if you are carrying anxiety or depression concerns.  

Key Differences

Focus: Anxiety looks toward potential future dangers; depression dwells on past or current sadness. Energy Level: Anxiety often feels like a high-energy, wired state, while depression feels like a low-energy, tired state. 

Core Emotion: Anxiety is driven by fear and panic, while depression may be driven by hopelessness and worthlessness.  

Common Overlap: Many individuals experience both, as they share similar underlying causes and treatments. Symptoms for both can include insomnia, difficulty concentrating, and physical issues like fatigue.  

When to Seek Help: If feelings of worry or sadness are persistent, uncontrollable, and interfere with daily life, please contact us we provide insurance covered therapy, sliding scale fees on a case by case basis if capacity allows.  

There are many breathing exercises for anxiety to provide anxiety relief. The importance is to please assess where you are 0 to 10, 10 being the most distressed, 0 being at complete peace and calm where you are and breathe in a way that is concentrated so you bring this number down in your body. Also please accompany your focus to where you want to go in life, rather than where you fear life will go.

We provide telehealth booking appointments for online anxiety therapy.

What are the causes of anxiety attack,  what are the causes of anxiety, what are the causes of panic attacks is in our experience treating anxiety and panic attacks for over 15 years, is that there is underlying concerns that may have caused what is called maladaptive coping mechanisms to resolve unexpected stressors. These underlying causes may be grief, trauma, work stressors. These underlying causes may have changed core beliefs, and effected core values causing sometimes existential anxiety, depression.  We treat underlying causes for anxiety, panic attacks for lasting change. Usually those who are highly anxious also exhibit high caringness, we want to use this rare resource for the Greater Good.

We treat children with anxiety. We assign you a licensed seasoned virtual anxiety therapist for virtual anxiety treatment. We treat health anxiety counselling online. We provide the best online anxiety therapy by integrating the most trusted evidence based psychotherapies available.

Anxiety is treated in counseling primarily through evidence-based psychotherapy, with an integrative combined approach creating an individualized program for each clients' needs. What differentiates our practice from other services is that we treat root, underlying causes to anxiety.

Regular methods of treating anxiety use Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT as the first-line choice to identify and restructure unhelpful thought patterns. We believe however this is a dated approach that pathologizes our clients, dismissing emotions and their thoughts which is a core problem in how we see ourselves when we feel so called negative emotions. Rather, we integrate approaches such as EFT, Emotion Focused Therapy and IFS, Internal Family Systems to guide clients to listen and approach their thoughts and emotions with reverance and respect, which enlarge their capacities for future challenges, mitigates stigmatizing, suppressing cycles of emotions that self-harm blocking immune systems by continuing dissassociations to only cope with life's challenges.

Regular counselors use techniques like exposure therapy, mindfulness, and relaxation training to help clients manage physical symptoms, tolerate distress, and gradually face feared situations. We believe this places the therapist as the expert, when in fact, our role as therapists is to ensure you feel and act as the expert of your life.

Regular traditional approaches to treating anxiety put Cognitive Behavioural Therapy CBT on a pedestal. We believe and have seen in our 16 years of practice, only focusing on identifying, challenging, and replacing so called distorted thought patterns and behaviors that are reported to create anxiety, only force clients to return to therapy. Our treatment takes this a step further in guiding you to understand when you used anxiety as a coping mechanism, and we treat usually, trauma behind the anxiety, that created and enabled your identity to emesh with an anxious personality.

Regular practices will use Exposure Therapy: such as gradually introduces anxiety-provoking situations in a safe environment, often used for phobias and social anxiety, including imaginal or in-vivo exposure. We believe and we have seen by treating anxiety for over 10 years, that this only is a short term solution. The real problem is how you see yourself, how your self-concept has developed, and how your identity is embedded with anxiety. Our treatment challenges you to redevelop your identity. We have yet not treated an anxious presenting client who is not highly intelligent.

At Canada Online Therapy we advocate for a shift away from fixing symptoms, towards a deep, identity-based healing that honors our clients' intelligence and internal system. 

Our approach centers on: 

De-pathologizing: Treating emotions as messengers rather than malfunctions.

 Root Cause Resolution: Using IFS, Internal Family Systems and EFT Emotion-Focused Therapy to address the underlying trauma and parts that utilize anxiety as a protector. 

Identity Reconstruction: Guiding clients separate their true self from an anxious personality that was often formed as a survival or coping mechanism. 

Client as Expert: Moving the power dynamic away from the therapist-as-expert and toward the client’s own wisdom. By focusing on the self-concept and the immune system/dissociation connection, we look at the biological and psychological cost of suppressing emotions rather than just managing them.

At Canada Online Therapy our approach is holistic and integrative. 

It connects the mind, the identity, and the biological immune system. 

At Canada Online Therapy we honour the whole person instead of treating a diagnosis. 

We acknowledge the physical impact of trauma and dissociation. 

We empower the client to lead their own healing.