Understanding Anxiety With Bill Venable

Let's Start Here: LifeCare Counseling and Coaching

Our Hosts:

• YOLANDI RAUSE, MS, LCMHC - Counselor
  • As a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Associate, Yolandi has a heart for students and young adults. She has experience in the school system, working alongside families and educators by compassionately processing life's hardships and moving towards holistic healing and growth.
• STEVEN PRICE, MA, LCMHC - Counselor
  • Steven is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor committed to understanding each person's story. Steven seeks to engage in past memories of struggle and pain to make sense of the whole person and work towards healing individually and in relationships. Steven has experience in many therapy areas, but he also offers to coach as life has many transitions and sometimes hard changes.
• BILL VENABLE, MA, MDIV, LCMHCS
  • Bill is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Supervisor and has been practicing for over 20 years in the Raleigh area. Bill brings a passion for training other clinicians and continuing to lead sound therapy for both the individual as well as in marriages. As co-founder of LifeCare his training in trauma, sexual addiction, and other areas of struggle continue to influence many. He is prayer warrior and humble servant.

In today's episode:

• We discuss how LifeCare was founded and what principles it was founded upon.
• Bill discusses the meaning of anxiety, how after a study of the Bible, he found there was no verb for anxiety, but its root word is divided. So a definition of anxiety could be being unable to decide between two or more choices.
• If somebody does feel split or divided, what do they do next? What is the process of moving forward or getting out of this dilemma that they might be having?
• We talk about the difference between anxiety and fear.
• When it comes to anxiety, there are no quick fixes, but what steps can we take toward breaking the cycle of anxiety?
• You don't have to be controlled or managed by your anxiety. You can start managing it.
• Bill shares what, for some people, can be a useful exercise to decrease their anxiety and fear.