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Anxiety Counselling Gold Coast

Gold Coast Anxiety Counselling

Do you experience out of proportion stress ?

Whether it is social phobia, specific phobia, post traumatic stress disorder, general anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, or similar, it falls under the category of anxiety disorder, and calls for counselling and therapeutic treatment. And, this is where our expertise can help you. Contact Anxiety Counselling Gold Coast

Anxiety Counselling Gold Coast

How can we help ?

At Soul Counselling we have a systematic approach to dealing with our patients’ problems, and help them through a round of clinical counselling session.

Firstly we introduce them to their problems, and then show them the way to deal with it and confront those conflicting issues, without having to feel paralysed by fear or phobia.

It has been medically proven that when people confront what they fear the most repeatedly, without getting the negative outcome they actually afraid of, the sense of phobia will gradually subside.

This does not only help in changing the mental frame of a person in a natural manner, but also helps in building back the lost confidence and sensitivity towards oneself.

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There is no better path of healing then tackling the issues at once, our counselor has extensive experience in dealing with cases of anxiety, PTSD, OCD and social phobia. To strengthen your belief in Soul Counselling Gold Coast and our ability to help you with Anxiety Counselling please feel free to read the reviews and testimonials left on our website or on google.

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In severe cases, we take the help of integrative medicines and therapies that would help our patients to fight back the physical symptoms caused by the anxiety.

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Case Scenario of Fear and Anxiety

Anxiety Counselling Gold Coast

Daniel has been referred to you for counselling. He has recently started a new role as a director for a large international company. The role involves some travel and this was made very clear to Daniel when he accepted the role. Daniel has a fear of flying but really wanted to work for the company and hoped he would be able to overcome his fear for the right role. However, he is now 3 months into the new job and so far has been trying to hide his fear from his colleagues, rescheduling site visits for later in the year or relying on other methods of travel wherever possible. At one point he even got as far as boarding a plane but was so overwhelmed with anxiety that he had to be escorted off the plane before take-off and told his colleagues that he had become ill at the airport.

This is becoming problematic for his business relationships as the sites interpret his behaviour as being disinterested or disconnected from the business goals and he is very concerned his career will suffer. What would you do to help Daniel?

Daniel’s goal is to remain in his role as executive. He is conflicted in that he is very concerned about his career but cannot demonstrate it due to one mental barrier; fear of flying. To help Daniel achieve his goal and manage his fear of flying as fast as possible, CBT would be the therapy to use. By first helping Daniel to acknowledge his actual thoughts related to flying, Daniel can start replacing these thoughts with more realistic ones. For example, Daniel may have catastrophic thinking such as “the plane will crash and I’ll die! I must avoid flying!” resulting in emotions of overwhelming anxiety. After recognising and recording this thought, he can now replace it with a more realistic one such as “Millions of people fly every day without any accidents. It is highly likely that I can fly without an accident” pairing a corresponding feeling of calmness. Helping Daniel to record his daily thoughts and emotions towards flying will allow him to consciously replace those thoughts and emotions with healthy ones and over time, allowing him to overcome his fear of flying and reach his career goals.

To begin with I would encourage Daniel to accurately identify what he feels his specific issues are (fear of flying, concern over discussing the issue with his boss, etc.). Then I would encourage him prioritise what he would like to work on first. If he chooses to work on his fear of discussing this with his boss, I would use the CBT technique of challenging his automatic thoughts that his boss will not understand. It might be helpful for him to practice a role play with me, discussing the issue with his boss. We could then look at addressing his anxiety around flying and begin the process of desensitising him about his fear of being in a plane. I would encourage him some practice relaxation techniques, positive imagery technique and distraction activities and diversion techniques, as homework. Once the client felt comfortable enough using these techniques, we would practice him using them in situations that are as similar to being on a plane, as possible. Over a few weeks we would gradually build up to Daniel visiting an airport and eventually boarding a plane, using his practiced techniques.