Holistic Anxiety Therapy in Denver
An integration of psychotherapy with body-based energy work, Internal Family System-informed parts work, and spiritual insight to help calm your nervous system, work through your anxiety patterns, and feel more present.
In Person In Denver
1633 Fillmore st #102, Denver CO
Holistic Psychotherapy
Mind, Body, Emotion and Spirit
Body-Based Anxiety Support
For people who want more
You Have Anxiety...
You may even understand why.
But you still have difficulty stopping it.
Tired of only thinking about your anxiety?
Tired of feeling it more than you like?
Want to feel different?
This is for people who want anxiety therapy
that reaches deeper than insight alone.
Because you can’t think your way out of anxiety
Anxiety Is Not a Cause
but a symptom
Anxiety is the preparation & anticipation of an issue you haven’t seen yet. A result of something coming.
It can show up as your mind and body racing, an existential dread or an unsettled energetic feeling. It can be overthinking, body tension, restlessness, fear, irritability, or difficulty fully settling.
We look at all of these as the symptoms pointing to the cause held within your mind, body, nervous system, inner parts, and your spiritual self and see what it has to tell us.
Why Talking About Anxiety
May Not Be Enough
Talk therapy can help you understand your anxiety. That understanding matters.
But if anxiety is also held in your body, nervous system, protective parts, trauma responses, and spiritual disconnection, then insight alone may not reach the whole pattern.
You may have already noticed this.
You can explain your anxiety clearly, but you still feel it.
You can tell yourself you are safe, but your body may not believe you.
We work with anxiety through the deeper systems so that therapy is not only about understanding the problem, but beginning to shift how the problem lives inside of you and works within you.
Exploring Your Anxiety
Anxiety is often a signal that something in your system is trying to protect you. Instead of treating anxiety as something to fight, suppress, or simply manage, ask the questions behind where it comes from:
- What is your anxiety trying to protect?
- What does your body believe is unsafe?
- What unresolved emotional pattern or trauma response may still be active?
- What parts of you is trying to stay in control?
- Where have you lost connection with your body, intuition, or deeper self?
The goal is to help you understand yourself more deeply, calm your nervous system, and feel more grounded in your body and life.
Tai Yi Treatments
That Work with Anxiety
Life Energy Flow Tai Yi a body based energetic modality that works with the deeper levels of your system to assist with issues.
Each of these are the names of treatments that assist with different pathways anxiety.
May Relate To:
- Rapid fight-or-flight activation
- Chronic stress
- Cortisol and adrenaline patterns
- Feeling unable to come down after stress
People may say:
- “My stress response feels stuck.”
- “My breathing feels tight.”
- “I feel paralyzed by overwhelming stress and anxiety.”
How it may fit anxiety work:
Brain Stress may support your body’s stress response through shifting breathing patterns, cortisol activity in the brain, and the adrenal response connected to the body’s stress system.
May Relate To:
- Brain Injuries (TBI’s)
- Concussions
- Strokes
- Heavy Drug Use
- Chronic Stress to the Point of Affecting the Brain
- Being Ungrounded
People may say:
- “I started to feel different after the head injury/sports injury/accident”
- “I know I can do this but I get frustrated, like my brain just isn’t doing what I want it to”
- “I wish my brain didn’t get so upregulated”
How it may fit anxiety work:
Fire of the Brain is a very beneficial for frustration and anxiety related to the brain feeling like it is not functioning properly creating an internal friction. This is potentially very beneficial for supporting fluid communication in the brain by creating clear channels.
May Relate To:
- Fear of hearing the truth
- Being resistant to feedback
- Avoiding Change
- Avoidance Personalities
People may say:
- “If I really find out it will shatter the way I see myself.”
- “I don’t want to hear that, it makes me too anxious.”
- “I feel like I am living a lie.”
How it may fit anxiety work:
Truth Anxiety supports you in being able to face things you may not want to look at, whether its about you or you life. It assist with releasing the resistance and denial which often show up as anxiety.
May Relate To:
- Feeling Stuck
- Depressed and Anxious
- Strokes
- Energetic Influence
People may say:
- “I feel stuck and I don’t know why”
- “I feel energetically drained”
- “I just can’t shake these negative feelings.”
- “I can’t get my energy back after this relationship.”
How it may fit anxiety work:
Cord Removals may support anxiety connected to relational or energetic entanglement with other people, while psychotherapy explores the pattern of attachment or boundary issues.
May relate to:
- Attempting to be like others (and not yourself)
- Losing your own identity by wanting to be like someone else (Whether you are consciously aware of it or not)
- Unhealthy attention seeking
- People-pleasing
People may say:
- “I’m depressed and anxious and I don’t know why.”
- “If I’m being honest I do want their approval.” (Parents, friends, society, etc)
- “I don’t know what I feel until I know what they feel.”
How it may fit anxiety work:
This supports you to become your own person and release the internal need to be like someone else or to be approved of by others.
You can only experience happiness as “your” self. Attempting to do through others only creates depression and anxiety. Being more deeply who you are can assist in releasing.
May relate to:
- Emotional residue
- Energetic stagnation
- Stress clearing
People may say:
- “I need to come back to myself.”
- “I need a vacation.”
- “I’m still carrying stress from something that already happened.”
How it may fit anxiety work:
Sea Wave is beneficial for you if you’d to release stagnation and support emotional relief.
Anxiety Tools
You Can use right now
The 5-4-3-2-1 Tool
Description
If you are feeling anxiety getting more present and in your body can assist in alleviating the intensity.
This technique is often used to assist individuals on the verge of panic attacks to help them pull back from their overwhelming feelings.
It is help you shift focus from your internal feelings to your external experience, pulling you away from intense feelings.
Tool
Take a deep breath and begin to become more aware of your surroundings.
Focus on your surroundings.
Identify:
- 5 things you can See
- 4 Things you can Feel
- 3 Things you can Hear
- 2 Things you can Smell
- 1 Thing you can Taste
Do this until you feel more present and aware of your surroundings.
Focusing on your environment as much as you can.
How This Helps
It brings you back from being in your head and more in your body.
You Can Change What You Truly Own
Description
This Tool is not for the faint of heart.
If you are experiencing anxiety, or any emotions, the more you can come to a deep internal ownership of those emotions, the more you have the ability to be in charge of it and not have it in charge of you.
This tool does require setting aside the ego and taking deep responsibility without using blame, shame or self criticism.
Tool
State to Yourself
“I am responsible for these feelings, I own them, they are mine”
Feel and focus on owning the feelings.
If you come to a place where you feel you are owning the emotions, ask your self what do I need to do next? How can I work with these feelings that I own?
How This Helps
This does not necessarily stop the feelings but shifts how you interact them. Giving you power in own them and working with them.
This may not work for everyone, and that is ok.
If you are in a deep state of ownership it allows you to shift the intensity and experience of your emotions more easily.
Your emotions can own you or you can own your emotions.
You Don’t Have Anxiety,
A Part of You Has Anxiety
Description:
This is an Internal Family Systems (also known as IFS or sometimes Parts)
This helps to shift the focus from ‘I am anxious’ to ‘A part of me is anxious, how can I help that part’.
Here is a way to work with anxiety right now.
#1: Identify
#2: Communicate
#3: Support
Take the Quiz
Types of Anxiety
When looking at anxiety we explore the type of anxiety you are experiencing.
- Is it from the past?
Something you are afraid will repeat. - It is a repression of your creative energy?
The internal experience of suppressing who you never get to be. - Is your anxiety from a deep fear of hearing someone which may be true?
Because you don’t want to hear it. - Is it from a need to control the uncontrollable?
A battle you can never win.