Who We Help

At Vancouver Anxiety Centre, our goal is simple: help you feel better, faster. Anxiety shows up in a lot of different ways — and we’re here to help you untangle it.

🌀 Anxiety

• Racing thoughts that don’t shut off, even at 2am.

• Feeling drained by constant “what ifs.”

• Panic attacks that feel like your body hit the alarm button for no reason.
  👉 Good news: CBT for anxiety works. We’ll teach you practical tools to calm your mind and get your life back.

🔁 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

• More than cleaning or checking — OCD is intrusive thoughts + rituals that hijack your time.

• Common themes: checking locks, asking for reassurance, contamination fears, taboo intrusive thoughts.
  👉 Our therapists are trained in ERP (Exposure & Response Prevention), the gold-standard treatment for OCD. Yes, you can feel better.

  😴 Insomnia

  • Lying awake at 3 a.m. solving the world’s problems (or re-playing that awkward thing you said in 2012)? Yep, that’s insomnia.

  • The harder you try to sleep, the more your brain decides it’s a great time to do its stand-up routine.

  • Sleep struggles drain your energy, mood, focus, and patience — basically, everything.

  • We use CBT for Insomnia (CBT-I) — the gold-standard treatment — to help you:

    • Fall asleep without counting a million sheep

    • Stay asleep without staring at the ceiling fan all night

    • Break the cycle of “what if I don’t sleep?” panic

    • Wake up feeling rested instead of resembling a Netflix zombie extra

  • Bonus: insomnia often tags along with anxiety or stress, so we help calm both at once.

👥 Social Anxiety

• You leave social situations replaying every word and assuming no one liked you.

• Even when people are friendly, you don’t believe it.
  👉 Therapy for social anxiety helps you handle embarrassment, rejection, or criticism — and find your people without having to fake it.

💼 Workplace Stress

• Critical boss? Gossiping coworkers? Rules that apply only to you?

• Dreading Monday mornings with a pit in your stomach.
  👉 Therapy for workplace stress helps you protect your confidence, your health, and your career — without blaming yourself for someone else’s toxicity.

😡 Dealing with Difficult People

• Aggressive neighbour, critical parent, impossible ex, or snide coworker?

• You’ve tried ignoring them, being “nicer,” or standing up for yourself — nothing works.
  👉 We’ll teach you verbal self-defence skills and strategies to find peace when dealing with trolls (online or offline).

🔥 Burnout

• Cutting out joy, skipping workouts, running on fumes.

• Feeling hopeless, exhausted, and still behind.
  👉 Burnout therapy helps you set boundaries, recharge, and get your spark (and productivity) back.

⚡ ADHD + Anxiety

• Living with ADHD means you often have more problems to solve, not fewer — and anxiety loves to pile on.

• Procrastination, missed deadlines, and overflowing to-do lists leave you playing constant catch-up.
  👉 We’ll help with problem-solving strategies, organization tools, and CBT for anxiety, so you can break the cycle of “too much to do + too much to worry about.”

🚪 Low Contact, No Contact, or Estrangement

• Sometimes, after trying everything else first — biting your tongue, having the hard conversations, reading the books, even giving it “one more chance” (again) — the healthiest option is low contact or no contact.

• Relief often comes with a heavy dose of guilt, shame, or second-guessing.

• Research shows estrangement is actually very common (most people go through it at some point), and it’s rated as one of the most painful relationship experiences.

• Ghosting — whether in family, friendships, or dating — can bring up many of the same confusing, isolating feelings.

👉 Therapy can help you:

• Process the grief and loss of estrangement.

• Work through guilt and self-doubt about setting boundaries.

• Cope with ghosting and sudden disconnection.

• Build new connections and a chosen family that truly supports you.

Protecting your peace doesn’t make you selfish — it makes you human.