Where to go from here
If this series has sparked something — a curiosity about Focusing, or a sense that this way of working with inner experience might be useful for you — there are a few places to go next.
The free Name It to Tame It anxiety course covers some complementary ground — particularly around identifying and working with thoughts, emotions, and body sensations in the context of anxiety.
If you’d like to go deeper with Focusing specifically, the Clearing a Space workshop with Angela Cara is available as a recorded session for $20 — a more extended guided introduction to the practice. The work of Eugene Gendlin — particularly his book Focusing — is the original source. Ann Weiser Cornell’s The Power of Focusing is also widely considered one of the most accessible introductions available.
And if you’d like to explore this work with support alongside you — in a therapeutic relationship where these practices can be used in real time with whatever you’re actually carrying — individual counselling is available in person in Squamish and the Sea to Sky corridor, and online across British Columbia. Focusing-Oriented Therapy is one of the approaches I draw on most, and one I find genuinely useful for people working with anxiety, difficult emotions, and the kind of stuckness that talking alone doesn’t always shift.
You can read more about my training and approach on the about page.
