Registered Clinical Counselling // East Kits & East Van

Stop Managing Your Anxiety.
Start Understanding It.

Break the cycle of overthinking, regain control, and find a sense of calm that actually lasts.

Anxiety Therapy & Counselling Vancouver

Is Anxiety your “Default Setting”?

Let’s have a conversation about your anxiety and how I can help.

You know you are a capable and intelligent person, but a persistent hum of static runs in your mind and body. It’s a steady background tension, a mind that refuses to settle, and the exhaustion of constantly “willing” yourself to be okay.

Anxiety isn’t a flaw. It’s your mind’s call to take action to save yourself.  When we understand what your anxiety is protecting — we pave the way for it to loosen its’ grip.

A depth oriented approach to understanding Anxiety & Overthinking

Many approaches to anxiety focus on managing symptoms. While these strategies can be quite helpful, anxiety often returns when deeper patterns remain unchanged.

We slow down and reflect on what is going on in your life, and delve into beliefs, emotional experiences, and relational expectations from your past that continue to shape your sense of safety about the world.

Our work often involves:

 

  • Deep diving in your current experience to understand how your current situation is making you vulnerable.
  • recognizing underlying beliefs that quietly shape how you respond to yourself and others
  • making space to process emotions that may have been difficult to experience or carry alone
  • exploring these patterns within a safe therapeutic relationship, where new experiences can gradually take hold.

As understanding deepens and experiences begin to feel safer, anxiety often loses the urgency it once carried.

Get the grip on life you need

Discover how anxiety therapy in Vancouver can help you feel calmer, more confident, and truly present in your life.​

How the Work Unfolds

The work unfolds gradually. Together we begin to understand your anxiety and overthinking and create space for new ways of relating to your situation.

Understand your Situation & vulnerability

Reflect on your current situation and what is making you vulnerable to stress or anxiety from a social/physical lens.

Uncover your hidden beliefs and needs​

Discover what is at stake and the beliefs and emotions that quietly shape your insecurity and vigilance — and begin loosening the ones that keep you stuck. 

Build & Grow New experiences

Test your beliefs in the safety of the therapeutic relationship where you can bring your authentic self. And take all your learning to test it in the outside world.

This work is for:

Overtime you can expect:

Less overthinking, More Presence, More groundedness
  • A realistic sense of your situation and feeling more grounded.
  • More compassion for yourself and more tolerance for ambiguity and complexity of situations
  •  Directing your creative energy toward problem solving instead of ruminating over possibilities for doom

  • Letting go of social fears, loving yourself and finding your voice  

How Overthinking therapy in Vancouver benefits you

What results can you expect?

Hi, I am Malahat

Therapy is not only a method. It is also a relationship.

Many of the patterns that bring people to therapy were once intelligent adaptations — ways of maintaining connection, avoiding hurt, or carrying responsibilities that once felt necessary.

Over time, these strategies can begin to limit your freedom in relationships.

In therapy, we explore these patterns with curiosity rather than judgment. Often, change begins when long-standing expectations about relationships are gently challenged by a different experience.

What you will find in our work together is a space that is:

 

• thoughtful

• emotionally grounded
• attentive to complexity

I focus on your goals and plans.

Learn more about me.


Working with me

Individual sessions are $165 for 55 minutes. Most extended health plans cover sessions with a Registered Clinical Counsellor — check with your provider to confirm your coverage.  


Not sure if we’re a good fit? Start with a free 15-minute call — no commitment required.

I am specialized in depth-oriented and attachment-informed psychotherapy.
I have a Masters in Counseling Psychology and I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor (# 21215). I work in person in Vancouver, BC & Virtual across all BC.

Let’s have a conversation about how therapy can improve your situation.

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This approach may benefit you if:
You feel anxiety has a constant grip on you: Some base level of anxiety is necessary for functioning in life and inevitable, but it should not be debilitating and compromise your sense of wellbeing in life.
Relaxing” feels dangerous: Even on vacation, your mind is scanning for potential threats, problems to solve, or planning for the next crisis.
You’ve outgrown “coping skills”: You’ve tried breathing exercises, mindfulness apps, and positive thinking, and while they might help for an hour, the fundamental tension always returns.
You feel “fine,” but you are exhausted: You are tired of the daily effort it takes to keep the anxiety quiet enough to function.

How Anxiety therapy in Vancouver benefits you

Is this work right for you?

Ready to Explore?

Start the journey to understand your experience

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