Trauma-Informed Healing

Anxiety & Stress Management

Your nervous system has been in overdrive. Learn to find calm through evidence-based psychology grounded in your body's wisdom.

Sweetnam Psychology offers anxiety therapy in person across the Gold Coast and Tweed Coast, and via telehealth psychology sessions Australia wide.

Recognising the Signs

Physiology working overtime

Anxiety lives in the body. It is a physiological response to a stimulus that gives rise to feelings that seem threatening. Many of us think we know the symptoms: restricted breathing, tension, restlessness. But it’s more than this. Anxiety also shows up as nausea, vomiting, migraine headache, diarrhoea and the frequent or sudden and intense urge to urinate. It can be ringing in your ears, a floating or foggy sensation, tunnel vision or blurred sight.


Medically unexplained symptoms

You have headaches, nausea, dizziness, bladder urgency, stomach pain, chest tightness, but the doctors cannot find anything physically wrong.

Dissociated or derealised

A floating sensation, fogginess, visual distortion, or feeling far away. A sense you are watching your life, rather than being present in it.

Avoidance patterns

You find yourself avoiding situations because anxiety feels too big to face.

Moving to unhelpful mechanisms to keep anxiety down

Drinking, smoking, chronic scrolling, impulsive behaviour, worrying, exploding, over-exercising, detaching, flattening out. These are just a few of the mechanisms we can use to avoid our anxiety, and they rarely make our lives better.

Understanding the Method

More than breathing exercises

There may be moments where I will introduce a practical tools appropriate to the level of anxiety we are noticing in session. You may learn breathing techniques, grounding strategies, and nervous system regulation. But we go deeper. We'll explore what your anxiety is telling you, identify roots of stress patterns, and help your body learn it's actually safe. Using somatic therapy, cognitive work, psychodynamic therapy, and evidence-based anxiety interventions, we break the cycle rather than just manage symptoms.

The Transformation

What’s waiting on the other side

Healing from anxiety isn't about never feeling it again. Anxiety is a necessary part of our internal world. It's about keeping it within tolerable limits, where it doesn’t become overwhelmingly high and impact your life. Where it instead becomes what it was designed as, a signal that something important has come into your awareness.

  • You'll access genuine peace through nervous system shifting, not through avoidance or suppression.


  • You'll get time back with loved ones, at work, with yourself.

  • You'll have concrete strategies you can use in moments of panic or stress. Tools that actually fit your life.

  • You discover you can handle discomfort. Fear loses its grip. Life becomes more possible.

Take The Next Step

You don't have to white-knuckle through this


Start with a consultation to explore how I can help your nervous system find its way back to calm.

Schedule a consultation