Welcome to…

The Work of Healing Anxiety

An 8-week online self-study course to help you develop an empowered and healthy relationship with your anxiety so you can feel more calm and ease.

So, You’re Anxious? I See You.

And I’m committed to supporting you to find
more calm and ease in your life.

Perhaps you’ve always been an anxious person, or maybe anxiety has crept up in your life more recently. Maybe your anxiety is rooted in a specific situation or circumstance, or it could be present constantly. However your anxiety shows up, I get it. I’ve struggled with anxiety off and on my whole life. And as a clinical counsellor and therapist, I finally have the tools to manage it and live a full life without anxiety getting in the way.

Here’s the thing about anxiety: it’s a part of being human.

Especially in our modern society that demands so much of us in terms of productivity and success, it’s something most of us struggle with. You’re not alone. But that doesn’t make it any less frustrating. And that’s why I’ve developed this course: for you to learn how to take back control of your anxious thoughts and find peace from the physical symptoms of anxiety.

Welcome to the Work of Healing Anxiety

An online self-study course to help you develop an empowered and healthy relationship with your anxiety

I’ve poured my heart and soul into creating this course. It has everything in it that I wish I had access to when I was in the trenches of my own struggle with anxiety. Over the eight modules, the course will cover about as much content as I would work through in 7-8 therapy sessions with an individual client. This is the most affordable way I know of for you to access this level of content and support.

It’s also called “The Work of Healing Anxiety” for a reason. Managing anxiety takes work. This course will provide you everything you need to do that work: from specific grounding tools, to concrete practices for exploring your emotions, to journal prompts and guidance that will help you understand your anxiety at a whole new level. I’ll provide the structure, the guidance, the knowledge, and the skills – everything you need to take back control over your anxious mind.

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Your investment:

$111 CAD or three monthly payments of $37 CAD

You feel a certain degree of anxiety all the time and you’re getting frustrated. You’ve tried everything you can think of but it still feels like there’s a knot in your chest you can’t move.

You experience intense anxiety and/or panic attacks and want to learn how to better manage those in the moment so they don’t get in the way of you living your life.
You feel alone with the struggles you’re having with anxiety and want support.
You think you already know everything about managing anxiety and are wondering how to actually put it into practice.
You have anxiety in regards to specific situations, such as social settings, and want to find ways to manage your emotional reactions.
You want to better learn how to support someone close to you with the anxiety they are experiencing.

This is for you if…

Please note: This course is not counselling or therapy. If you believe you need more support than this course can offer or are in a state of crisis, please seek additional help from a certified professional in your area.

Here’s what’s included…

Techniques for managing your anxiety:

This course covers an in-depth exploration of how anxiety manifests in your mind and body and how you can support yourself in taking your power back, drawing on cognitive tools, emotional processing and somatic (body-based) approaches.

7 modules of content and classroom learning:

Including a combination of teaching and self-directed exploration:

Over 5 hours of video material explaining course concepts and supporting you to apply the course teachings to your own life (transcripts are available for all videos).
70-pages of intentionally-crafted weekly workbooks for you to apply to your own anxiety.

Structure:

A guided structure walking you through the course over the span of 8 weeks (or you can choose your own adventure and go at your own pace).

A little bit about me…

I’m Kelsey Mech (she/her). I’m passionate about supporting creatives to build businesses and lives that feel spacious and easeful, and step outside the hustle culture of capitalism. And I also deeply love to support humans to feel truly at home within themselves.

I’ve been running my own business since 2018. I’ve worn many hats (and continue to do so): therapist, business coach, writer, community-tender, space holder, virtual assistant, copywriter, and more. And I currently work as a therapist, creator and holder of community spaces and writer (and I still dabble in some contract copywriting work for right-fit clients on the side).

I strive to create a business and life that works for me, meets my financial needs, and gives me the freedom and flexibility to meet the needs of my body, mind and spirit. And that isn’t always easy, especially when we’re often in it alone. I love supporting others to explore what this can look like for themselves, and I especially love doing that together.

Week 1: introduction

What is anxiety? Understanding the different types of anxiety and what is at the root
Workbook: Getting to know your anxiety and collecting information about how it shows up for you

Week 2: responding to anxiety with the mind

How to respond to anxiety with your thoughts, drawing on cognitive behavioral therapy techniques
Learn how to check the facts, seek evidence opposing your anxiety, return to reason and find your Wise Mind
Explore grounding tools and begin applying them to your life
Workbook: Reframing your thinking and talking back to your anxiety in the moment

Week 3: responding to anxiety in the body

Understand what happens in the body and nervous system when we are anxious
Explore fight/flight/freeze and the stress response
Learn how to work with your body and physiology instead of against it
Deep dive into grounding skills to return to baseline using the body
Workbook: Befriending your nervous system and learning what your body needs when it’s anxious

Week 4: tools for feeling through anxiety in the body

Learn ways to feel and embody anxiety in the moment without it overwhelming you
Identify the emotions present beneath anxiety and find healthy ways to process those emotions
Develop a greater emotional vocabulary and understanding
Workbook: Get to know the emotions beneath your anxiety

[Week 5: break week]

Take some time to catch up on material or integrate your learnings so far

Week 6: anticipating anxiety

Learn how to be proactive about expecting anxiety
Begin to befriend your anxiety and better understand its needs and triggers
Understand anxiety as only one part of you and get to know this part
Workbook: Build a relationship with your anxious part and develop self-compassion

Week 7: creating a lifestyle that supports you

Create a concrete plan for lifestyle changes to support you in breaking free from anxiety
Explore your self-care routines and habits and get clear about what you need
Find specific ways of incorporating anxiety-reducing tools throughout your day
Learn ways to communicate your needs regarding your anxiety to your loved ones
Workbook: Begin developing a personalized self-care plan for supporting your anxiety

Week 8: re-aligning with what is most important

We’ll look at how our anxiety is exacerbated by the bigger picture systems and “shoulds”
You’ll get clear on your values and learn how to use them to find center
Workbook: Put it all together and finalize a plan for managing your anxiety

Here’s what we’ll cover…

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You got questions? I’ve got answers.

The videos offered will be about 20-40 minutes long, depending on the week. Some weeks I will also provide guided meditations and visualization recordings for you to try as well. To get the most out of the workbooks, I recommend spending anywhere from 30-60 minutes on them each week. So, if you really want to deep dive into all the material, it would take you about 2 hours for each weekly module.
That being said, you’ll have access to the material in the course indefinitely. So you can always return to it as needed and there is no need to rush through any of the material. You can choose to follow the weekly structure or go entirely at your own pace!
Anytime you’re ready to begin tackling your anxiety. You’ll receive immediate access to the course in its entirety as soon as you purchase it.
You bet! You can pay for the course over three payments spread out over three months.
I truly believe in this course. I’ve poured so much effort into and and if you put the work in, I believe you will see results and gain so much from the process of taking this course. For that reason, I am not offering refunds. That being said, if something happens in your life that prohibits you from partaking in the course after you have already purchased it, you can email me at kelsey@kelseymech.com and we can discuss options on a case by case basis.

What people are saying…

“Kelsey, your Work of Healing Anxiety course was planned and executed with such detail and care. I felt supported from my first log into the community and course content. I loved that each week of the course provided a different approach to examine, understand and work with our anxiety. We reviewed many different approaches and techniques and many of them have resonated for me. I’ve begun to view my anxiety less as a perceived flaw and more of an understandable reaction to the stressors in my life. Something I can learn from, grow from and heal from.

I appreciated how intentional you were in varying the course delivery to help us stay engaged; using videos, reading, meditations and workbooks to explore each week’s content.

Above all, it’s clear how invested you are in working compassionately and intentionally with those of us that experience chronic anxiety. Kelsey, I feel fortunate to have experienced your kindness, compassion and wisdom. I appreciated the ability to take part in your course and would wholeheartedly recommend the Work of Healing Anxiety to others. I feel empowered to continue to journey of navigating my experience with anxiety. I’m confident that what I have learned can continue to be cultivated and grown after the course has ended.”

-Katy Leverick

“Kelsey has a warm and inviting approach to helping people understand and work through the anxiety they are experiencing. The anxiety course I took with Kelsey was informational and helped me reframe anxiety in a more positive way. Before the course I thought of anxiety as negative, annoying, and I just wanted it to go away. Kelsey was able to help me understand more where anxiety was coming from and look at it in a more positive and supportive way; at how anxiety was there to serve me. Looking at anxiety in a more in-depth and a more positive way has helped ease the anxiety in my life. I would recommend this course if you are looking to understand more why you experience anxiety.”

– Julie MacNaughton

“Kelsey Mech’s Work of Healing Anxiety course is transformational. She offers key foundational knowledge and support for understanding the emotions that are often buried under our anxiety. This course allowed me to focus on one emotion at a time, give it space to be understood and validated, and the ability to communicate with it in a healthy, productive way.

Kelsey’s raw honesty and insight coupled with a gradual program, designed with comfort and safety in mind, allowed me to break down the difficult and make it all manageable. This course not only allowed me to understand how to manage emotions, but also when to listen to my emotions in order to heal. When I learned how to listen to my emotions and the reaction to my emotions, I learned how to live with intention.

The tools and knowledge acquired in this course carry over every single day and for that I am eternally grateful. To this day, I keep little reminders of some of the tools offered in Work of Healing Anxiety all over my house and in my car and wallet to give me strength and guidance when I need it. The moment I joined Kelsey’s course is the moment I started to heal and I believe through this course you will start to heal you, too.”

-Melanie Smolter

“After an especially bad year of anxiety and panic attacks, I knew I needed help, but going to therapy didn’t feel like an option at the time. I decided to take a chance and sign up for The Work of Healing Anxiety course to get the help I needed, and I’m so glad I did! Now I’m crystal clear on what I can do to cope and calm down when I’m feeling really anxious or panicky, and I also know how to proactively prevent those bigger anxiety build-ups from happening in the first place. Invaluable!

Kelsey was definitely knowledgeable on the topic, and also empathetic and attentive. I’m so grateful to her for not only teaching me about a wide range of practical anxiety tools and techniques, but also about how to make friends with my anxiety and approach it with compassion and understanding vs. hatred and judgement.”

– Leslie V.