Managing Anxiety with Visual Tool and Experiential Approaches

In Singapore, 76% of children reported high anxiety especially when examinations were near. Though some anxiety propels us to do our best, for the young, High Anxiety can be debilitating and they will need help. Counsellors and Psychologist have reported that 90% of their clients have Anxiety as a presenting issue.

Anxiety– what really happens in the Brain and Body.

Skills for Managing Anxiety:

• meta-cognitive skills (thinking about how we think)
• deliberate attentional control
• agency (getting in the driver’s seat)
• body connection, increasing tolerance and distraction
• visual resources to understand and manage Anxiety

Hands-on Experimentation with a range of Visual

resources

Experiential Approaches to Anxiety Management:

•  including counting, colouring, movement, listing
• tapping, alphabet tasks, music, drawing, affirmations
• biomimicry (copying the natural world)

Strengths-based, solution-focused brief therapy

• skills including reframing, normalising & externalising
• questioning techniques