Anxiety Counselling Welshpool
In person, telephone and online counselling via video call
Counselling and psychotherapy for anxiety near Welshpool
Counselling can help support you with anxious feelings.
Are you struggling with ‘what if’ thinking? Tempted to believe the worst might happen? Finding at night your brain becomes too busy to sleep?
Counselling and psychotherapy can offer you ways to manage anxious thoughts and feelings, leaving you feeling calmer. When you are supported by someone professionally trained you can learn new ways to cope with anxious thoughts.
I’m a professionally trained counsellor working between Welshpool and Shrewsbury. I work on-line via video call too. I will listen to you in confidence in a non-judgemental environment where you will feel respected and accepted.
What is anxiety?
Anxiety is a distressing feeling that everyone experiences at some time in their lives. You may feel ‘on edge’ or jumpy. It may feel like panic. It can be a physical feeling in your tummy.
Those anxious thoughts might be about yourself, or others. It might be about situations you are facing. You may feel as if you don’t know what will happen to you.
Maybe the world feels a dangerous place for you to live in at the moment. You may fear ‘bad things’ happening.
Anxiety can be learnt from other people who you live with, if you had an anxious parent you may be more likely to experience anxious thoughts and feelings.
Your brain is designed to keep you safe. It is the alert system in your brain that causes you to leap out the way when something falls very close to you. Your brain automatically causes your body to move to safety. Isn’t that clever?
Sometimes because of particular circumstances, thoughts or worries your brain may tell your body you are in real danger. Usually this isn’t the truth but your alert system in the brain can go into overdrive. When this happens it is important to learn how to activate the soothing system in your brain to help bring a sense of safety back once more.
Are you worried about what other people think?
It can take time to let go of the fear of judgements of others around you. Working with a counsellor can help you discover your own beliefs and help you value what you would choose. Maybe you’ve become used to pleasing those around you, to the detriment of your own needs?
How can counselling help you?
If you’ve felt like you or your feelings were ignored or dismissed in the past, it may be that you’ve buried how you really feel. Or kept yourself so busy as a way of coping that you’ve not learnt how to cope with distressing feelings.
Counselling is not about being given advice or being told what to do. It is a place where you are able to be speak in confidence where you won’t be judged.
I offer a sanctuary where you can catch your breath. Here you can really be listened to as you talk about what is happening in your life and what is worrying you.
Counselling can help bring new hope. If you would like to work with me as an Anxiety Counsellor I’d love to hear from you.
What you think about affects how you feel, so becoming aware of the types of thoughts you have is the first step to choice and change.
Automatic thoughts can be unhelpful. Not every thought that pops into your mind is true.
Is your mind frequently going over something from the past or repeatedly thinking ‘what if’?
Once the thought comes into your mind, you have a choice about what you will do with it.
Will you believe the thought? Will you entertain it? Will you look for evidence if the thought is reality?
Counselling and therapy can change your life for the better.
If you’d like to read some more about anxiety and how you can help yourself with the symptoms, the link below talks about anxiety self help:
Being able to express what is worrying you and learning ways to become calmer will help you.
I offer a free 20 minute friendly phone chat without obligation for you to ask any questions.