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Soul Counselling · Anxiety Support · Brisbane
If your mind will not slow down, from a Chermside high rise to a quiet street in Redlands, you are not broken. Whether the worry lives in your chest on the commute to the CBD or as three in the morning overthinking in West End, we meet you gently. Sessions run online and by phone.
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Anxiety is the most common mental health condition in the country, reaching around one in six Australian adults, close to 17.2 per cent of us. In Queensland the picture is even fuller, with the 2020 to 2022 national survey finding that 23.7 per cent of people aged 16 to 85, roughly 954,400 Queenslanders, lived with a mental disorder in a single year, so if anxiety has found you here, you are in very good company.
Source: ABS National Study of Mental Health and Wellbeing, 2020 to 2022.
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One conversation in, most clients say they’ve finally been understood.
“I truly felt heard for the first time in all my life and deeply understood.”
“When I came to Christina I was drowning in darkness… now I’m finally thriving again.”
“Due to her mediumship I was able to see core issues that I wasn’t able to recognise before.”
In a city this large and fast moving, it is easy to feel like a stranger in the crowd, and that anonymity can leave anxiety running unspoken for a very long time.
How Christina works
There is nothing to perform in these sessions and no version of yourself you need to hold together. Christina treats anxiety as a nervous system doing its best to protect you, not a character flaw to be fixed. Together you slow things down, make sense of what your body is signalling, and build ways of responding that feel like relief rather than pressure.
Anxiety lives in the nervous system long before it becomes a thought, so early sessions focus on helping your body feel safer. You learn simple, portable ways to steady your breath and ground yourself that you can use on the train, at your desk or in the middle of the night, without anyone around you noticing.
Once things feel a little calmer, you gently look at what feeds the worry, the triggers, the thinking loops and the pressures unique to your life in Brisbane. Making sense of the pattern takes away some of its power, so panic and overthinking start to feel less like a mystery and more like something you can work with.
For many people anxiety has a history, and Christina blends grounded counselling with intuitive insight to reach the layer underneath. This is unhurried and led entirely by you, so nothing is forced open before you are ready, and healing happens at a pace your system can actually hold.
Go deeper
If reading helps you feel less alone, our blog explores what anxiety really is, why panic can feel so physical, and small, kind ways to work with a racing mind between sessions.
Read the anxiety counselling blogA gentle place to start before you ever pick up the phone.
What we can work through
Anxiety wears many different faces, and none of them make you difficult or too much. These are some of the themes people bring to Soul Counselling, and you are welcome here whether yours is on this list or not.
When your heart races and your thoughts convince you something is very wrong, the fear can feel completely real. We work with the physical wave of panic and the frightened stories that ride alongside it, so the attacks lose their grip and your body learns it is safe.
Long commutes, big city expectations and the constant hum of cost of living pressure can keep the mind switched permanently on. We look at the load you are carrying and find ways to put some of it down, so rest stops feeling like something you have to earn.
If you rehearse conversations, dread being judged or leave events replaying every word, you are not weak, you are wired to care. Together we soften that inner critic and help you take up space without shrinking or bracing for the worst.
Relocating for work or study can leave you managing everything alone in an unfamiliar place. We hold the loneliness and uncertainty that come with starting over, so the newness of Brisbane feels a little less like something to survive.
About Christina
Christina Feyes founded Soul Counselling in 2016 and has spent more than ten years walking alongside people through anxiety, overwhelm and change. She is a counsellor with training across psychology, social work and human services, and she supports clients right across Australia by video and phone. She does not diagnose, prescribe or label you, she simply listens well and helps you find your footing.
What people notice most is the blend she brings, the steady, practical structure of good counselling paired with a warm intuitive sense of what is really going on beneath the words. That means you get both, real tools you can use tomorrow morning, and space for the quieter, deeper layers that talking alone can miss.
Common questions
If your question is not here, the free 15-minute assessment is the easiest way to ask it.
Money worries should never be the reason you go without support. You are welcome to begin with a free 15 minute assessment, with no card details and no obligation, so you can get a genuine sense of Christina and how she works before deciding anything. It is a no pressure conversation, and there is truly nothing to lose by starting there. From that call you can decide, in your own time, whether continuing feels right for you.
Not at all. You do not need a referral from a doctor, a mental health plan or any kind of formal diagnosis to reach out. Christina is a counsellor, not a psychologist, and she does not diagnose or label you. You can simply get in touch as you are, describe what has been happening in your own words, and begin from there whenever you feel ready.
There is no physical Brisbane clinic. Soul Counselling works with Brisbane clients entirely online and by phone, which means you can access support from anywhere in the city, whether you are in the CBD, West End, Chermside or out towards Ipswich. Christina’s only in person base is in Southport on the Gold Coast, but the vast majority of her Brisbane work happens through video and phone sessions.
Yes, and for many people it works especially well. Anxiety and panic often flare in everyday settings, so learning to steady yourself in your own home, where the feelings actually happen, can be more useful than practising in an unfamiliar room. Video and phone sessions let you feel safe and grounded while you work, and the tools you build travel with you into daily life across Brisbane.
You start with one small step, and that is all. Book a free 15 minute assessment, and Christina will do the settling from there. You do not need the right words or a tidy explanation, you can simply say that things feel overwhelming. That first conversation is about being heard and easing the pressure, not solving everything at once, so there is nothing you need to prepare.
There is no fixed number, because your story is your own. Some people feel real relief within a handful of sessions, while others value a longer, steadier journey, especially when anxiety has deep roots. Christina works at your pace and checks in with you along the way, so you stay in charge of how often you meet and for how long. Nothing is locked in and you are never committed beyond what feels right.
Yes. Because everything is online or by phone, sessions fit far more easily into a busy Brisbane week, with no commute across town to factor in. Many clients meet before work, during a lunch break or in the evening after a long day. When you book your free assessment you can talk through timing, so support slots into your life rather than becoming another source of stress.
Counselling with Christina is a supportive space, but it is not a crisis or emergency service. If you are in immediate danger or thinking about harming yourself, please reach out right now to Lifeline on 13 11 14, Beyond Blue on 1300 22 4636, or call 000 in an emergency. These services are available around the clock and are staffed by people ready to help. Once you are safe, counselling can be a gentle next step in your longer healing.
Absolutely, and you are far from the only one. Many people relocate here for work and find themselves managing anxiety without the family and friends who once steadied them. Christina understands how big city anonymity and distance can magnify worry, and she offers a warm, consistent point of connection. Together you can build both a sense of belonging in yourself and practical ways to feel more settled in your new life.
Book a free 15 minute assessment with Christina, no card and no obligation, just a gentle chance to feel heard and see if this is the right fit for you.
Book your free 15-minute assessment →Anxiety support across Brisbane
Brisbane sprawls for miles, and life here often means long stretches of road between distant suburbs, from Ipswich and Logan out to Moreton Bay and the bayside. Many people arrive relocated for work, far from family and old friends, and that distance can quietly amplify a mind that already runs hot. Add rising rents and cost of living pressure, and the nervous system rarely gets a chance to fully settle.
Sessions are held online and by phone across Brisbane and all of Australia. You can also explore all Brisbane counselling services.
Support without the cross town commute
When you already spend an hour on the motorway or the CitiTrain each way, the idea of driving to yet another appointment can feel like one more thing anxiety does not need. Online counselling removes that hurdle completely. You meet Christina from your own lounge room, your car in a quiet car park, or wherever you feel safest.
You work with a qualified counsellor entirely by video or phone, no waiting room and no traffic. Between sessions you carry practical nervous system tools you can lean on in real moments, on the platform, before a meeting or at home late at night. It is gentle, flexible and built around your week, not the other way around.