mindforge
the work
1.
We begin with a 90 minute evaluation, to determine the nature and extent of your anxiety experience.
In this session we will also undertake a NESSLL audit to determine your general engagement, and to establish immediate steps that can be taken to improve your capacity to respond to your anxiety symptoms, and to improve your overall wellbeing.
2.
In our first few sessions together, you will be presented with a set of foundational tools which we will practice during our subsequent sessions together, and which you will apply in your daily life. You will be introduced to the concepts and practice of self compassion, basic mindfulness, self reflection, wilful tolerance, and the Run My Line panic management technique These tools will immediately reduce the distress that your anxiety experience is causing you. During these first sessions, you will also develop a meditation practice, and learn a series of highly effective relaxation techniques.
Our initial sessions will also focus on psycho-physio education, providing you with a recovery perspective that will permeate all aspects of your anxiety experience, and will allow you to decode, demystify and understand your Fight, Flight, Freeze and Fawn response.
3.
Once we have mastered the foundational phase, we will explore more specialised tools, crafted to address your particular experience of anxiety. During this specialist phase we explore Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), developing value and purpose driven behaviour, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, (CBT) specifically diffusion, Exposure Response Prevention (ERP), and Rumination Focussed Exposure Response Prevention (RF-ERP), service work, the power of compassion and real world opportunities and guidance to serve, equanimity and radical acceptance. and creativity,
During this third phase, we will develop a psychodynamic understanding of your core fears, and of the clumsy messages that anxiety may be trying to send you.
4.
Your success in managing and overcoming the challenges of your anxiety, depends on practice.
The right practice. Do the work. Practice. Everyday
Sharpen the sword. Sharpen your mind
This is your recovery war cry
This is your recovery mindset
be free