#OurAnxietyStories

Rosemary Young is a post-secondary student currently volunteering with Anxiety Canada. In this episode, she shares how MindShift CBT, Anxiety Canada’s app for iOS and Android devices based on cognitive behavioural therapy, has helped manage her anxiety.

In her view, “It's important for us as youth to be educated about the wide range of mental health and anxiety challenges that exist.”

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This podcast is brought to you by Anxiety Canada™, a leader in developing free online, self-help, and evidence-based resources on anxiety.

For more information and resources, please check out our website, www.AnxietyCanada.com

Our app MindShift™ CBT

Rita Schnarr is a Clinical Counsellor with Dr. Joti Samra & Associates. Using a holistic and biopsychosocial approach, Rita customizes treatment plans for individuals, couples, families, workplace employees and executives with a range of presenting issues including anxiety disorders, mood disorders, OCD, behavioural disorders, relationship difficulties, and life transition.

In this episode, she shares how her anxiety story inspired her to become a counsellor, and how  “A lot of times when we have anxiety, we're scared to face our fear and we have to push ourselves through it.”

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This podcast is brought to you by Anxiety Canada™, a leader in developing free online, self-help, and evidence-based resources on anxiety.

For more information and resources, please check out our website, www.AnxietyCanada.com

Our app MindShift™ CBT

Originally from Brazil, Camila Melo is currently a student at Douglas College in Vancouver. In this episode she shares her journey with generalized anxiety and OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), and how CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) has helped her. She says, “I think everybody should go through therapy. It’s too bad it’s not very accessible here.”

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This podcast is brought to you by Anxiety Canada™, a leader in developing free online, self-help, and evidence-based resources on anxiety.

For more information and resources, please check out our website, www.AnxietyCanada.com

Our app MindShift CBT: www.AnxietyCanada.com/MindShift-CBT

Mark Virgin is an experienced litigator and principal of Stevens Virgin, a Vancouver law firm that specializes in civil, commercial, and administrative law. Mark also  dedicates hundreds of hours annually to community service.

In this podcast, Mark talks about how anxiety fuelled his academic and professional success, until it started being debilitating. Today, Mark says, “I still have anxiety, but I now have the tools that allow me to function without the kinds of impediments that were being created by my anxiety previously.”

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This podcast is brought to you by Anxiety Canada™, a leader in developing free online, self-help, and evidence-based resources on anxiety.

For more information and resources, please check out our website, www.AnxietyCanada.com

And our app MindShift™ CBT

Dr. Melanie Badali is a Registered Psychologist and is certified in the practice of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) by the Canadian Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies. With over 15 years of experience working as a clinician, researcher, and instructor in the field of psychology, Melanie currently provides assessment and treatment services at the North Shore Stress and Anxiety Clinic. 

In this podcast, Melanie shares how she overcame her own struggles with anxiety on her way to being a therapist, and how “One of the great things about Anxiety Canada is that you can research anxiety and have access to high quality evidence-based information.”

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This podcast is brought to you by Anxiety Canada™, a leader in developing free online, self-help, and evidence-based resources on anxiety.

For more information and resources, please check out our website, www.AnxietyCanada.com

And our app MindShift™ CBT