Fundamental Anxiety: The Anxiety of Being Who You Are

Fundamental Anxiety: The Anxiety of Being Who You Are

Does Your Life Feel Disingenuous? Sometimes in therapy I come across clients who report they don’t really know what they truly want or who they really are. They have been so used to adapting to others or trying to be who they think they should be that they have lost...
The Best Way to Deal with a Panic Attack Is To Do Nothing

The Best Way to Deal with a Panic Attack Is To Do Nothing

The human organism is designed to protect us from danger to ensure our survival. One way it does this is to make us afraid of things that can cause us harm or death. Unfortunately sometimes this built in alarm and detection system is a little too sensitive and can...
What Many People Don’t Know about Social Anxiety

What Many People Don’t Know about Social Anxiety

Social Anxiety, like so many other “anxiety disorders”, is not really about anxiety. If we look a little deeper there is almost always something else at stake… Anxiety as Substitute Emotion Quite frequently, anxiety acts as a substitute emotion that takes the...