Anxiety Counselling in BC and Beyond
Anxiety Counselling
What this is
Anxiety can look like constant self-monitoring, replaying conversations, difficulty sleeping, or physical symptoms like a racing heart, tight chest, and nausea. Panic attacks can arrive without an obvious trigger. Social anxiety may be felt as anticipating judgment before, during, and after interactions.
Chronic anxiety keeps the body in a low-level activated state. Over time this contributes to digestive issues, persistent tension, disrupted sleep, and immune changes. This is part of why anxiety is exhausting even on days when nothing happens.
Counselling can help you identify where these patterns come from, respond to self-critical thinking differently, and live with more ease. Sessions move at a pace you can tolerate, with regular check-ins on what you need in the moment. Living with anxiety can be very stressful and uncomfortable, even if you have grown accustomed to it. We are here to support you.
Panic attacks
During a panic attack, these symptoms escalate quickly and often peak within ten minutes. Many people experiencing one for the first time believe they are having a heart attack. Panic attacks are not dangerous, but they are genuinely frightening, and the fear of having another can become its own difficulty.
Therapy here is about both the thinking that drives activation, and the physical state that makes anxious thinking more likely.
What sessions look like
Sessions are typically 50 minutes by secure video, although longer sessions are available. Most people start weekly or every other week and then adjust from there.
The first session is mostly orientation — what brings you in, what you want to be different, and how you want to work. We check in regularly about what is helping, and you can pause or stop at any time. We will use your name and pronouns from our first contact.
Fees
$165 per 50-minute session. Longer sessions available at $225 (75 min) and $270 (90 min). Offered by Charlie Young, RCC and Hannah Hale, RCC.
What happens in the consult
When you book a consult, we will spend about 15 minutes getting to know one another and we will talk about what brings you to counselling. We use video call on the same secure platform we use for sessions, so you can find out whether this feels like a fit before you make a commitment. Here is what happens:
- You pick a time online. There are no forms to fill in beforehand and no payment details required. Booking takes about 2 minutes.
- We ask what brings you in, what you are hoping counselling might do for you, and whether you have tried counselling before. You share as much or as little as you want to.
- You ask us anything — how we work, what experience we have with what you are bringing, fees, availability, scheduling, or anything else that matters to you.
- If you would like to go ahead, we book a first session and email you the intake paperwork.
Our Anxiety Counsellors
The Last Best Place Counselling is an online counselling clinic. We work with people who are physically located in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Yukon, the Northwest Territories, or Nunavut, and who are looking for ethical, affirming, and supportive care.
We work with adults who are physically located in one of the regions we serve.
Our work centres queer, trans, and gender-diverse people. Many of the people we see are also navigating disability, neurodivergence, racism, migration, or other systemic pressures.
We do not currently work with children, and we are not a crisis or emergency service.
If this sounds like the kind of counselling you are looking for, we would love to hear from you. Not sure we are the right fit? Just ask!