Online Anxiety therapists in Oak Bay, British Columbia BC, Canada CA
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Anxiety
Arne Pedersen - Hypnotherapy Victoria
Hypnotherapist, RCCH
Anxiety and fear often arise when the nervous system has learned to stay on guard, anticipating threat even when there is no immediate danger. Many people experience anxiety as persistent worry, physical tension, or a constant sense of unease — despite knowing logically that they are safe.
From a mindfulness-based perspective, anxiety is understood as a protective response shaped by past experiences where uncertainty, stress, or emotional overwhelm felt difficult to manage. Over time, the nervous system can remain stuck in fight-or-flight, reacting to present situations as though the past is still happening.
When the body stays in this heightened state, it uses a great deal of energy and has little opportunity to return to balance, rest, and repair. This ongoing strain can create an internal sense of threat, reinforcing the feeling that life is unsafe and causing external situations to be perceived as more dangerous or overwhelming than they actually are.
In our work together, the focus is on helping the nervous system gradually recognize safety in the present moment. Through mindfulness practices, breath awareness, and body-based awareness, clients learn how to become more comfortable with uncomfortable emotions and the physical sensations that arise with them.
As people gain experience staying present with these feelings, confidence grows. Anxiety often softens not because life becomes easier, but because there is a growing trust in the ability to feel, process, and move through whatever emotions life brings. When emotional capacity expands, fears lose their grip, and people experience greater freedom, clarity, and confidence in what they choose to do.
Hypnotherapy can further support this process by helping update subconscious threat responses and creating felt experiences of calm, safety, and steadiness that reinforce this trust.
15 Years Experience
Online in Oak Bay, BC
Anxiety
Jayne Batten
Counsellor/Therapist, MSc, CT, MPCC, MBACP
We can experience anxiety in a variety of different ways - we may suffer from panic attacks, obsessive thoughts, unrelenting worries, or phobias. Therapy can help to alleviate anxiety in different ways by understanding what lies beneath it and adjusting our behavioural responses to it accordingly. Anxiety is a very common mental health disorder and affects many, many people. Talking therapy can help us to learn different strategies to manage our anxiety and move away from feeling helpless or hopeless.
8 Years Experience
Online in Oak Bay, BC
Anxiety
Rachelle Tersigni
Registered Psychotherapist, RP
I support clients to connect with their anxiety and fear and to develop more self compassion. My aim is to provide insightful and experiential tools to explore and create space around anxiety or fear that shows up.
3 Years Experience
Online in Oak Bay, BC (Online Only)
Anxiety
Barchi Fojkar
Pre-Licensed Professional, Clinical Hypnotherapist
I practice psychology with a holistic perspective, focusing on the whole person, heart, mind, body, and soul, to address conditions such as fears or anxiety.
3 Years Experience
Online in Oak Bay, BC
Anxiety
R.E.A.C.H. Therapy & Consultation Inc.
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW
Anxiety and fear can feel overwhelming, making it difficult to enjoy daily life or feel in control of your thoughts. I specialize in helping individuals understand the root of their anxiety and develop effective strategies to manage worry, overthinking, and fear-based patterns. Using approaches like Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and mindfulness techniques, we’ll work on reducing anxious thoughts, building resilience, and increasing self-confidence. You don’t have to face anxiety alone—together, we can create a path toward calm, clarity, and peace of mind.
6 Years Experience
Online in Oak Bay, BC
Anxiety
Lisa Willow
Counsellor/Therapist, BSW, MSW, ADHD Certified Clinical Services Provider
Anxiety often accompanies ADHD. When we struggle with ADHD we can become afraid of failure, and struggle with anxiety related to social situations, relationships, work, and school. Anxiety often shows up as "what if...." Our brains imagine fearful scenarious in the future which keep our nervous systems locked into fight or flight mode perpetuating our anxiety. Learning skills, tools, and self regulation techniques can help us in managing our anxieties. I offer CBT for anxiety along with somatic excerices to help with anxiety managment.
16 Years Experience
Online in Oak Bay, BC (Online Only)
Anxiety
Colleen Vantol
Counsellor/Therapist, BA Psych. Masters Counselling Psychology,RCC
I Support to recognize triggers & manage symptoms.
19 Years Experience
Online in Oak Bay, BC
Anxiety
Halyna Polityka
Registered Psychotherapist, RP, MEd
We will explore the roots/causes as well as how to address them in the present with practical tools and challenges.
10 Years Experience
Online in Oak Bay, BC (Online Only)
Anxiety
Mark Giesbrecht, MA, CCC, RCC - Psychotherapist
Counsellor/Therapist, MA, CT, CCC, RCC
Anxiety is a horrible thing, it makes you doubt yourself and the world around you, it leads you to overestimate how bad things are and underestimate your ability to handle them. There are very easy to learn skills that can help you get anxiety and fear under your control and retake important areas of your life.
31 Years Experience
Online in Oak Bay, BC
Anxiety
Carlos "Charlie" Garcia
Registered Psychotherapist, RMHC, CCC, MSc, CCTP
I know what it’s like when your mind won’t slow down and your body feels constantly on edge. It can feel exhausting, like you’re always thinking, anticipating, rehearsing, preparing. In our work together, we’ll slow that down, understand what’s driving it, and start breaking the patterns so you can feel more grounded and in control.
2 Years Experience
Online in Oak Bay, BC (Online Only)
Anxiety
Darren Williamson
Counsellor/Therapist, RCC (#23397)
The modern world tells us that it is bad to feel fearful or anxious. "Be happy" is the message we have been given from childhood through school, through our family, through TV and social media, as if happiness is the default and all other emotions are dysfunctional. This is not true. Happiness is important, but living life with only happiness is like eating a diet of only sugar, or listening to a song that is only bass. We need the lows to give meaning to the highs.
Through therapy, I will help you better understand your fear and anxiety without shaming or stigmatizing it. Once we understand the role your fear and anxiety plays in your life, we will find ways to make it work for you. And once you are able to accept your emotions without needing to avoid them, your happiness will feel more meaningful.
"Happiness cannot be pursued, it can only ensue. One must have a reason to be happy... Doing so would be the same as urging people posed in front of a camera to say “cheese,” only to find that in the finished photographs their faces are frozen in artificial smiles." Victor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
3 Years Experience
Online in Oak Bay, BC
Anxiety
Ping Xu
Counsellor/Therapist, CCC, MC, MD
I provide support to individuals around anxiety
5 Years Experience
Online in Oak Bay, BC (Online Only)
Anxiety
Heal(ing) Trauma Therapy
Counsellor/Therapist, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), HBA, MPsy
From a trauma-informed approach, anxiety is simply a manifestation of unresolved trauma and a lack of feeling safe, secure, and stable. The work we can do will be to better help you understand your anxiety, to learn ways to better cope with it, and process the trauma that creates it so you can feel more, safe, secure, and stable.
14 Years Experience
Online in Oak Bay, BC (Online Only)
Anxiety
Tangled Minds Psychotherapy
Registered Psychotherapist, MA, RP, RCC
Anxiety is a normal part of the human experience, but it becomes a disorder when it begins to dictate how we live. We often find ourselves trapped in patterns of avoidance - changing our behaviors at work, with friends, or in our relationships just to escape uncomfortable feelings. When these patterns start shrinking your world, professional treatment becomes vital to help you reclaim your life.
Anxiety is a mismatch between our ancient "mid-brain" and our modern "pre-frontal cortex." Your brain’s threat detection system (the amygdala) is millions of years old and cannot always distinguish between a physical predator and an imagined catastrophe. When we visualize a stressful scenario, our body responds with a flood of adrenaline and cortisol as if the threat were real. This "evolutionary glitch" traps us in a loop where our brilliant imagination accidentally keeps our survival system in a state of constant, exhausting vigilance.
My approach to treatment targets the four stages of the anxiety response: Stimulus, Emotion, Cognition, and Behavior. We work to "down-regulate" your nervous system through physiological tools like structured breathing and sensory grounding. By strengthening your executive function through mindfulness, we build the "mental muscle" necessary to catch an anxiety spiral in real-time, allowing you to choose a new direction rather than falling back into old habits.
Effective therapy involves more than just insight; it requires action. We use Exposure Therapy and goal-setting to gradually face the things you’ve been avoiding, proving to your brain that you are capable of handling discomfort. We also integrate Self-Compassion and Mentalization to help you sit with difficult emotions without needing to "fix" or flee from them. By targeting thoughts, emotions, and behaviors simultaneously, we move away from short-term avoidance and toward a long-term, value-driven life.
Recovery from an anxiety disorder is significant work that involves re-patterning how your brain responds to stress. My role is to be your guide—teaching you the skills, helping you navigate the predictable pitfalls, and providing a safe space to process the roots of your pain. While there are no overnight fixes, these evidence-based interventions offer a clear, reliable path toward a life that is no longer defined by fear.
7 Years Experience
Online in Oak Bay, BC (Online Only)
Anxiety
Donna Wigmore Counselling Services
Counsellor/Therapist, CCC, CT
Often we are living with anxiety and we may not know why. We may be able to work together to uncover the roots of the anxiety. Then we can process the past to free you up to live with less anxiety moving forward.
4 Years Experience
Online in Oak Bay, BC
Anxiety
Kim Alscher
Registered Psychotherapist, MA, RCC
Anxiety can appear as paralysis, persistent overwhelm, spiralling thoughts, or ongoing physical tension. Because chronic activation of the nervous system affects health and wellbeing, it’s important to address it effectively. I combine CBT and PRT strategies with a deeper exploration of the underlying fear response so clients can understand, regulate, and ultimately reduce their anxiety.
17 Years Experience
Online in Oak Bay, BC
Anxiety
Dave Vass
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Clinical Counsellor: RCC
Anxiety and fear can derail us from the lives we want to have and keep us stuck in holding patterns. I help clients not only manage their anxiety better, but uncover the 'why' towards chronic conditions that may be signals from the unconscious towards unmet wants and needs. Incorporating a neuroscience-based perspective that includes experiential focus on the mind-body connection, we can charter a path to more freedom in your dialy life.
7 Years Experience
Online in Oak Bay, BC
Anxiety
Adam Manz
Licensed Mental Health Counsellor, Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC), MCP
When anxiety takes over, it can leave you feeling tense, distracted, and disconnected from yourself and others. I offer a supportive space to slow down, tune into your body, and make sense of what drives your worry or fear. Through grounding techniques, self-compassion, and insight into your underlying patterns, you’ll begin to feel more centered, resilient, and capable of facing life’s challenges with greater ease and confidence.
3 Years Experience
Online in Oak Bay, BC
Anxiety
Simone Merkl Marriage Counselling
Counsellor/Therapist, RTC
It can be normal to experience anxiety or fears, but when it starts taking over your life, it may be time to seek help. Let's explore all the areas of your life to see where this anxiety or fear may be coming from. The presence of fear is a natural response when one is in danger. Whereas, anxiety is more about continual thoughts of feeling unsafe or thinking something emotionally or physically devastating may happen. Learn strategies to help ground, relax, empower and free you to experience greater autonomy and joy in your life. Please feel free to contact me for a free 20-minute consultation today. I offer online sessions in Canada, BC. and in-person sessions in Langley or White Rock, BC.
6 Years Experience
Online in Oak Bay, BC
Anxiety
Lindsay Renaud
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Psychotherapist, MACP, BA, B.Ed, EMDR
Does anxiety feel it takes up way too much space in your mind or body? Do you wish you had different ways to cope with anxiety but currently feel nothing works, or lost? Let's connect for a free 15-minute consultation.
5 Years Experience
Online in Oak Bay, BC (Online Only)
Anxiety therapists in Oak Bay, British Columbia, Canada Statistics
Anxiety therapists in Oak Bay, British Columbia, Canada average 10 years of experience and charge around $161 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are Anxiety or Fears (100%), Depression (77%), and Self Esteem (72%).
Average years in practice
10 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$161
Gender ID
| 74% |
Female |
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| 23% |
Male |
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| 2% |
Non-Binary |
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| 1% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 57% |
In Person and Online |
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| 43% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 100% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 77% | Depression |
| 72% | Self Esteem |
| 70% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 70% | Stress |
| 59% | Loss or Grief |
| 51% | Social Anxiety |