• Struggling to regulate your emotions

• Anxious about your anxiety

• Experiencing self-doubt or self-loathing

• Worried about letting people down

• Burnt out (or approaching burnout)

• Having trouble sleeping due to overthinking

• Exploring emotions and patterns tied to your anxiety and where they appear throughout your life

• Gaining tools for emotional regulation

• Giving voice to parts of yourself that often remain hidden

• Learning how to implement tools to help improve relationships (communication, boundaries, etc.)

• Practising self-compassion and acceptance

• Highlighting values that matter to you and how you can act on them

• Song-sharing and creating art to spark discussion

In all likelihood, you know coping strategies for managing your anxiety and regulating your emotions. We can practise those and learn some more skills together. However, my focus tends to be more on exploring the underlying emotions and patterns behind your anxiety. It is then that you may begin to understand where the anxiety comes from and what may trigger it. 

A big roadblock many of us have is that we chastise ourselves for negative feelings — like anxiety and overwhelm — rather than getting curious about them. Together, we can practise this mindset of self-curiosity and see whether there is anything helpful the anxiety may be telling you (or if the anxiety is simply being activated out of past habit).