Anxiety counselling in Berlin

Are you feeling overwhelmed? Tense in the chest and having difficulties with breathing? Negative thought cycles from where it is difficult to get out of? It feels like you would just like to get some peace and quiet. Then it might be time to explore options for anxiety treatment.

Anxiety counselling helps to quiet the noise 

Having some anxiety can be healthy since it is your body’s response to threat. However, having anxiety in excessive amounts can impact living your life to the fullest.

Whether you are struggling with social anxiety or fear of giving presentations, anxiety therapy can help to explore your symptoms and the source of anxiety. 

Anxiety symptoms

We all have different backgrounds and experiences. Therefore, we can experience anxiety symptoms differently. Working with a trained professional to understand your symptoms can help manage them. Here are the most common ones: 

  • feeling like your heart wants to beat out of your chest

  • feeling numb 

  • feeling overwhelmed and not knowing why

  • feeling tense

  • sweaty palms

  • disorientation 

  • sense of panic 

  • excessive worry

  • troubles with sleeping 

How can anxiety counselling help?

Counselling can help ease your anxiety symptoms and make you less worried about your future. Research shows that anxiety therapy helps to calm the nervous system, lower stress hormone levels and help release emotion. It is about self-expression, talking and assessing where your anxiety might be coming from, and helping you find appropriate techniques to alleviate your symptoms. 

Arula Counselling integrates creative, psychodynamic, mindfulness and ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) approaches with a focus on neurodiversity-affirming and trauma-informed care. 

How can music therapy help ease anxiety?

Music therapy helps to ease your symptoms to feel better and cope with your anxious thoughts and feelings. We may use techniques such as: 

  • music listening

  • playing music for self-expression

  • art-making 

  • finding meaning

It offers a creative way to process your feelings and experiences where the emphasis is on the process rather than the outcome. In turn, this can lead to an improved quality of life. 

What happens in anxiety counselling? 

Facing your anxiety symptoms can feel scary and overwhelming. Feeling like it will get worse. However, by doing that in a safe space, you can make sense of your experiences and release repressed emotions. A counsellor is there to support you and not challenge you in ways that you are not comfortable with. It is about providing you with awareness and skills that you can use in your daily life and start to feel better.

Conclusion

Together, we will explore your ‘triggers’. What makes you feel anxious? In which situations do these triggers normally occur? We will then find tools and techniques to support these triggers to help you cope with anxious feelings.  

Let me know if you have any questions or if you would like to start anxiety therapy with me. I look forward to connecting with you.

Disclaimer: This content is for educational purposes only and does not replace a therapeutic relationship with a trained professional. If you are in a mental health crisis, please call 112 or your country's crisis line, where professional mental health workers can help you.