Mark Ahern Counselling

B Sc Hons Counselling & Psychotherapy M.I.A.C.P.

Anxiety

Mark Ahern Counselling & EMDR

Anxiety

Anxiety is a common feeling everyone can experience at some stage in their life. It can be a normal emotional response to stressful situations.

Anxiety is also a natural emotional response that can help us prepare for challenges, like sitting an exam, starting a new job or concern about an upcoming awkward social occasion.

What makes one person feel anxious may not create the same response in someone else. When we experience anxiety we are not living in the present but are living in the future of what may happen.

While anxiety is an everyday feeling we all experience, it can become a problem when there is no obvious reason for that anxiety or when anxious feelings persist.. Anxiety becomes debilitating when we live in fear of the future and find it very difficult to relax.

My work with people who experience unhealthy anxiety is based on helping them to recognise that their anxiety is a fear of the future which is destroying their ability to have peace of mind. I work on helping them to experience living in the present and I teach  the skills of acceptance, gratitude and compassion.

 

Testimonials for Mark Ahern

“My doctor referred me to Mark as I had lost my will to live, not wishing to take my own life but only existing. My time with him allowed me the space to look at my life and to forgive those who had hurt me. This has totally changed how I feel and live today. He is one in a million.”
“I first went to Mark with work stress issues. After 2 sessions, I decided I could trust him with my real issue – my addiction to pornography. Mark helped me see that my addiction was my avoidance of a part of myself. Working with Mark helped me explore this difficult side of me and with this came freedom and I now no longer view porn. It has given me back the ability to enjoy life with my wife and family.”
“Speaking to Mark has helped me realise that I was not responsible for my abuse and has given me the freedom to enjoy my life with my husband and family. I felt totally at ease with Mark and I never felt judged in any way.”
“After my counselling sessions with Mark I now feel comfortable with who I am and where I have come from. The death of my father had overshadowed my life and Mark helped me to come out from under that shadow of guilt and self- loathing.”
“When we first went to Mark our relationship was in great difficulty. He helped us identify how our life had become boring and uneventful, revolving around our children. We have now found ways of communicating which has made our life exciting and we are in love again which is brilliant.”
“For me life had been all about work and I eventually hit a wall. Mark helped me to identify my feelings of inadequacy and my motivations coming from a place of fear. I now believe that I live my life from a place of love. I am so thankful to Mark for helping me get to this point.”
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