THE GURU’

them is fundamental to understanding them and taking away their grip.

Furthermore, the longer these fears manifest, the greater the web of phobias that can disrupt the lives of those affected will grow.

At the root of it, phobias related to anxiety are an overactive and highly developed internalised scanning process for those who suffer from them.

They may cause people to constantly live in a state of seeing the world as risky, because of an event or series of events that happened to them in the past.

Therapeutic

Exploring those roots, understanding them and accepting that life can move on and be enjoyable again is part of the therapeutic journey. Many have already done just this, but most have not.

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For younger people, the significant disruption to their lives may well have had deeper and more consequential impacts, given the formative nature of their years.

Some may well have felt that the world is a daunting and threatening place, particularly as their experience would be of people masked up worrying about unseen germs and the fear of death. Imagine that in the psyche of young people.

Many are still left in a state of anxiety, which may have morphed into other fears. Which is why containment of these fears and working through the root causes of

Therapy is no laughing matter, as they say. It can and has significantly changed the lives of millions of people for the better. Over the centuries, one of the reasons why mental health issues were probably lower in frequency than they are today, is because we relied on talking to others. Our basic survival depended on being part of a family or a pack of people. This meant communication, care and support.

Counselling is a form of that and there is no doubt it is the start of the healing process for many.

The ‘Counselling Guru’ is a fully-qualified UK-trained therapist, who can be contacted on Whatsapp on +34 66 46 66 252 or by e-mail on info@counselling4anxiety.eu