Driving can be a pretty significant factor for needing anxiety therapy. Some days traffic and the drivers around you can be extremely difficult to drive with (obviously not you of course). When anxiety while driving prevents you from actually driving this can be a negative game changer and not always as simple as just get in the vehicle and try again. Let’s take a look at some basic anxiety therapy ways to drive without total anxiety.
Anxiety therapy tip #1: Seasonal Circumstances.
Different seasons can create different driving seasonal anxieties. Some drivers have great anxiety on snowy days. For others, it can be a slightly foggy day that gives us sheer panic. Figuring out what season of driving that is most difficult can help you to get to the root of your driving anxiety.
Anxiety therapy tip #2: Not all driving anxiety comes from the fear or accident itself.
Sometimes the anxiety of driving can be rooted in a past fear or trauma that has not been dealt with and is now manifesting as anxiety when driving. However, when a person is in an accident or negative driving situation it can definitely be a trigger for past unresolved issues that now definitely need to be dealt with.
Anxiety therapy tip #3: There is support to get over your driving anxiety.
Therapists have many tools and techniques that can support someone in getting over there driving anxiety. One such tool is called Accelerated Resolution Therapy and has been a game changer for clients dealing with driving anxiety. Talk to your therapist today about what tools and techniques can be utilized to help you overcome your fear of driving.
Driving anxiety is a legitimate thing for many drivers living in Calgary and areas such as Airdrie and Cochrane. If you are struggling to drive, learn to drive, or have difficulty driving on certain driving road conditions it might be time to seek out a qualified counselling therapist, clinical counsellor or psychotherapist. Get the support to be able to drive on the road again in order to drive towards “New Life.”
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Lindsey McCallum (CCC) is a Canadian Certified Counsellor and Jeremiah La Follette (CT, RPC, MPCC) is a Counselling Therapist, Registered Professional Counsellor, Master Practitioner in Clinical Counselling and National President of the Canadian Professional Counsellors Association (CPCA) who both have a passion for providing positive results by restoring healthy relationships and individual wholeness.
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