Befriending Anxiety: A Counseling Program
Train your mind to change your brain—
and ease the grip that anxious thoughts and feelings have on you.
Designed in-house and client-tested, counseling to help you learn to change your relationship with anxious thoughts, emotions, and sensations for the better. Tailored completely to you and based on sound research— for targeted work to learn about how triggers work and the specific stressors and triggers of your anxiety. Discover many new and effective strategies for dealing with it.
Befriending Anxiety offers:
- Highly effective, science-backed strategies to learn how to step out of thinking habit loops.
- Exercises and practices that work, for actions and new habits you want to become automatic.
- Guidance and support, every step of the way.
More Details – How Befriending Anxiety Works
- Become aware of how a thought or body sensation can trigger an anxiety response.
- Learn how we accidentally trip ourselves up by identifying with and trying to “fix” anxiety, which just increases it.
- Discover how some anxiety works outside of our awareness, and how anxiety fuels more anxiety.
- Increase your awareness of the roles of self-criticism, judgments about the future, and how some people “identify with” anxiety; learn how to respond effectively to these.
- Learn to recalibrate your response to anxious thoughts and feelings to become unhooked by them, and less impacted.
- Recognize what does NOT help, so you can steer clear of these responses to anxious thoughts and feelings.
- Become skilled at many new approaches to relating differently to anxiety.
Befriending Anxiety FAQ
What’s included?
15 hours of counseling, over 7 months. In between sessions, I offer support, guidance, and encouragement by email. Resources, tools, and information provided, too.
Why is the series this length?
The intention is that it’s to be completed over about a half year, to allow you to integrate the changes you make for permanent success. This design has been found in modern psychological science and in my work with clients to be most effective and supportive.
How often do we meet?
Weekly to biweekly sessions. This meeting schedule has been found to be powerful and effective in supporting clients’ change efforts.
What is the cost, and are payments accepted?
INVESTMENT = $1800. Yes, I’m happy to help you set up a payment plan.
