Counselling Support for Anxiety, Stress & Overwhelm

My approach combines insight and compassion to your experience of anxiety, stress, or overwhelm. We'll explore how it may have taken root — whether through unresolved grief, unhelpful beliefs, early experiences, or difficult life transitions — and develop strategies to support you in moving beyond its grip.   ​I use an integrative approach, drawing from a range of therapeutic modalities tailored to your unique needs. This flexibility honours your personal journey and recognises that no two relationships with anxiety or stress are the same. Our work together will support your emotional wellbeing and help you feel more grounded and capable of responding to life's challenges in ways that reflect your strengths and your values.  ​Our first step often begins with narrative therapy's externalising technique, which offers a gentle, protective space to explore what's going on — how worry, stress or overwhelm shows up, and what it asks of you. Seeing it as separate from you allows room for curiousity and compassion instead of fear or self-blame. This shift in perspective helps reduce emotional overwhelm and opens the door to deeper understanding of the patterns, beliefs, and emotions that may be driving your experience beneath the surface.   ​When we're no longer fused with these feelings, we can begin to ask what they might be protecting, what they respond to, and how they have shaped your way of coping.  While anxiety and stress are often experienced as a personal struggle, its effects can touch every part of life — especially with our partners, family, or colleagues. Our work can explore these impacts when its helpful to do so. ​Life loves a curveball, and the beliefs we hold about ourselves — especially in the face of uncertainty — can deeply influence how we experience those moments. I look forward to how we might soften the landing together.