Anxiety can really feel like it's in charge - causing us to feel like we're broken, or too much. It causes us to overthink and to have problems with our sleep, our relationships and it causes problems with how we feel about ourselves - making us feel like we're not good enough, rubbish at adulting, that we're broken.
If this sounds familiar and you'd like it to change, we can help.
We know that it takes courage to seek out counselling. But going for therapy can be life changing and we know that you want things to change.
Counselling can be helpful in allowing us to process our thoughts and our feelings.
The basis of the therapy we offer at VIVA is very much around empowering our clients, and we work from a client centred approach, which means you and your therapist can work with whatever comes up for you.
It’s a confidential space, without any judgment, where you will have the space and time to talk with your therapist about anything you would like to.
How therapy can help
Wherever your anxiety stems from, we can work with you to help understand and ease it. Every person is unique and the reasons for anxiety can be unique, but high anxiety tends to show up in similar ways, such as:
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Racing thoughts or trouble switching off
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Avoiding people or situations
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Physical symptoms such as tension and stomach issues
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Constantly on edge
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Trying to second-guess everything
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People pleasing but not getting your own needs met
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Walking on egg shells in your relationships
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Feelings of low confidence or low mood
All of our therapists are fully qualified, empathic, down-to-earth, neurodivergent-affirming, and LGBTQI affirming, and they can help you to ease your anxiety and begin living the life you really want.
However anxiety is showing itself for you, therapy with VIVA offers you space to:
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Help you to understand what's going on for you
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Learn tools to help calm your nervous system
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Reconnect with your strengths and discover your authentic self
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Feel more in balance and more grounded
Going for therapy
Going for therapy can feel like a big step, it can feel scary if you haven't done it before. Will it bring change? Hopefully! But it's your therapy, and you're in control of what happens.
Perhaps you feel other people's problems are more important or bigger than yours, judging yourself for not being okay - but you deserve to feel okay and we'd like to help you feel okay.
Take the first step toward feeling more balance and ease in your life. Fill in the form below and start your journey with us.
Book your first session and discover how to find freedom
and balance with therapy
What our clients say about us
Client, LG
Anne helped me through a really tough and turbulent time in my life. Working with her gave me the confidence and stability I’d been missing, and for the first time, I started to see how parts of my past were holding me back.
Client, DB
At a very difficult time in my life I was advised to speak to Anne. She listened but didn’t judge. Instead she helped me to recognise and rationalise my feelings. I felt she had empathy and a clear understanding of me as a person. My time with her enabled me to move forward with a greater understanding of myself and my challenges. It gave me the emotional strength to address them with confidence.
Client, C
I was feeling lost and overwhelmed, but Alex helped me navigate my emotions with kindness and patience. Her support has given me hope, and I now have the tools to manage my mental health in a way I never thought possible.