Our lives are filled with a series of events; one after another. Blissful events, tragic events, and everything in between. When those tragic events happen – those knock us flat on our back events – it’s natural to feel lost. To be lost. Grief and feelings of helplessness are part of being human.

Hi everyone, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist, and this video is going to be a little bit outside the box because I want to talk about how to handle the holidays with family. We have thanksgiving upon us and a lot of us are going to be spending time with family over the next several days, so just wanted to talk about some, some techniques or or coping mechanisms for making it through the holidays.

Hey everyone, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist, and today I want to talk about how to change a behavior or habit and this can be either the removal of something or the implementation of something. So for example, if we're talking about removal, I have a client who drinks a lot of coffee and wants to start reducing the amount of caffeine he consumes each day until he no longer consumes caffeine at all. So that would be the removal of something.

Hi everyone, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist, and today I want to talk about motivation. This is a topic that um I was actually teaching about earlier this week with my theories of personality class. And as I was going through the content with the students, it really dawned on me that this is a topic that applies to a lot of the clients I work with and especially those who tend to be more perfectionistic or have a fear of failure.

Hey everyone, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist, and today I want to talk about alcohol. Um this video was actually prompted by a session I had with a client yesterday. In addition to a couple articles I read in the news this morning about alcohol consumption before, during and after the pandemic, um which was pretty interesting.

So when they studied the people in the age group of 20-49, they actually found that alcohol was responsible for one in five deaths. And that drink king was a pandemic habit that most people wanted to kick. Like if there was one habit they could choose that they acquired during the pandemic it was drinking.

Hey everyone, I'm Kristen the anxiety therapist and today I'm going to be talking about the acronym FEAR. So we all know fear as a basic human emotion, you know, it's necessary for survival and everybody experiences it, but in the psychology world we like to use it as an acronym for false evidence appearing real. So when we experience anxiety a lot of times, we are um making assumptions about how the future is going to be right, and so we're not basing anything off of real evidence that we have, but rather we're sort of creating this narrative of fear and despair based on maybe one little fact that we know or or one little symptom, the best example I can think of for this is, and I'm sure everyone has done this at some point, but you know, you experience some physical symptom and all of a sudden you're on google and WebMD, looking up your symptoms and next thing, you know, you're diagnosing yourself with some terminal illness, right?

What’s the difference between being depressed and being burnt out? How can you tell and does it even matter?

Hi everyone. I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist, and today's video is going to focus on ways to cope with the four fear responses. So I did a four part series, one video for each of the four fear responses which include fight flight, freeze and fawn. And and these can also be referred to as acute stress responses or trauma responses, but either way they elicit fear and anxiety and it's your body's way of responding to an actual or perceived threat.

Hey everyone, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist, and today is part four of the four part series I'm doing on the fear response is also sometimes referred to as acute stress responses or trauma responses as a reminder. Those include fight flight freeze and today I'm going to be talking about the fourth one, the fawn response, which most people are unfamiliar with.

Hi everyone. I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist, and today I'm going to be talking about part three of the four part series I'm doing on the fear responses as a reminder. Those are fight flight, freeze and fawn. So today we're going to be focusing on the freeze response.

Hi everyone. I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist, and today is part two of the four part series I'm doing on the fear responses. This can also be referred to as an acute stress response and includes fight, flight, freeze and fawn. So last week I talked about the fight response today, I'm going to be focusing on the flight response and this occurs when our brain feels it's not going to be successful in fighting off danger.

Hey everyone, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist and today is going to be part one of a four part series I'm doing on the four fear responses which include fight flight, freeze and fawn. So you might also hear these referred to as the an acute stress response or a trauma response.