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Calm Anxiety with Emotional Capacity Coaching.
Anxiety Support to expand your capacity for living a full life.
Learn how to process emotions effectively–settle overthinking–release stress and tension from your body and nervous system–and realise the root cause.
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Find freedom from the anxiety that keeps you stuck in life.
Realise the “deeper why” of your anxiety, overthinking, and emotional distress.
Many therapeutic approaches generally focus on external experiences and day-to-day challenges. While this is important, it commonly keeps the focus on managing anxiety symptoms or finding a better version of survival mode. My method focuses on finding the root cause to achieve lasting change and greater personal growth.
Using a holistic body-mind approach, I facilitate an embodied experience that expands your emotional capacity, resources your nervous system, settles overthinking, and calms anxiety simply and effectively. Instead of being trapped by the need to “fix” or get “rid of” anxiety or maintain a near-constant state of calm, I can help you become more comfortable with the uncomfortable. I have helped 100’s of clients support the part of them that feels anxious and overwhelmed by expanding their capacity to process difficult emotions and resolve life challenges with greater clarity and confidence in the moment.
My goal is to help you feel a greater sense of freedom being your authentic self and feel free to live life to the full.
Client Testimonial
“I’m not a guy who would traditionally go to personal coaching or counselling, I had never talked about or acknowledged my feelings until I couldn’t avoid how broken I felt. I reached out to Christopher after a friend recommended him as the person who had the skills to meet me where I was at. Christopher helped to save my life. Before I started seeing him there was almost no hope or desire to live left in me. I quickly became aware that there was hope, which I hadn’t been able to see before starting talking with Christopher. He was gentle and non-judgemental and gave me the time I needed. He made me feel safe and comfortable talking, which validated what I was experiencing. The hardest part was realizing I couldn’t get through it alone but Christopher made me feel comfortable being myself and less embarrassed about the things I had experienced. He made it acceptable for me to grieve without feeling ashamed.”
ANDRE BERKETT
CONSISTENT RESULTS I SEE FROM WORKING WITH 100’S OF CLIENTS
Expand your capacity to resolve stress, anxiety, and confusion &
Expand your capacity for living life to the full.
- Find relief and freedom from anxiety, depression, trauma symptoms, self-sabotage, and addiction
- Cultivating self-kindness by transforming low self-esteem, self-doubt and criticism into self-belief, trust, and lasting self-worth
- Emotional, mental, and behavioural clarity leading to better communication, deeper connections, and greater confidence being your authentic self
- Feel empowered to make choices from connection, love, and wisdom in moments even when anxiety, hurt, loss, and fear is present
- Expand your capacity to give and receive love
- Learn to live authentically and courageously with you sensitivity and vulnerability
- More energy and confidence to pursue personal and spiritual growth and realise your dreams.
- Feel a renewed hope for life.
Avoid the following Pitfalls.
- Avoid staying stuck in survival mode
- Avoid being stuck managing anxiety symptoms not being able to realise the root cause
- Stuck with a constant need for calm and getting rid of anxiety? This can lead to bypassing emotions or acknowledging how we feel from our mind rather than an embodied/heart-centred connection and processing
- Overfocus on releasing and resetting the nervous system rather than expanding our emotional capacity to become more comfortable with the uncomfortable.
- Trying to stop your mind from thinking. The more effectively you learn to process emotions and release stress and tension from your body and nervous system, the more peace you find within; your mind will naturally calm and settle.
3-part breakdown of my holistic approach to
Emotional Capacity Coaching–How it Works.
Learn how to process your emotions effectively.
- Learn the mechanics of how to create more space within for what you feel
- Breathwork tools that deepen your capacity to slow down, relax, and be present. The more relaxed and present you are, the more you can feel
- Learn the difference between mental and embodied acknowledgement of your emotions. Doing this through the body-mind connection allows us to feel greater calm immediately, and process our emotions fully and deeply
- Learn how to stay present with your emotions long enough to receive all the information, insights, and deeper knowing they have to offer
- Expand your capacity for processing difficult feelings, becoming more comfortable with the uncomfortable
Settle overthinking through the body-mind connection.
- Understand why this is happening for you and how to calm your amygdala activity
- A whole-person/bottom-up approach simplifies the process and pinpoints the root cause. Learn how to work with emotional energy or past trauma within the body-mind connection in a way that lets your mind take a back seat–allows your heart to lead–and your inner wisdom to shine through
- Learn how to address the root cause of overthinking. Deepen awareness around coping patterns and emotions that drive overthinking
Learn how to support your body and nervous system on deeper levels.
- Discover your best ways of moving stress out of your body
- Learn self-care practices, and ways of self-soothing that work best for you
- Learn how to soften, slow down, and drop into a deeper state of relaxation
- Learn breathing techniques for deeper relaxation and tension release; that help you feel connected; calm the mind and nervous system; and access more energy. Resource your nervous system in preparation for resolving negative patterns and experiencing deeper healing.
Emotional Capacity Coaching
Who is This For and Why it Works.
Who this for?
- Often stuck in emotional overwhelm causing you to withdraw from life
- Struggling with overthinking
- Struggling with “not feeling good enough”, self-doubt, and low self-worth
- Struggling with always putting pressure on yourself, being hard on yourself, and suffering under a harsh internal critic.
- Lacking motivation
- Struggling with depression
- Self sabotaging
- Addiction issues
- Struggling to find release from past experiences and trauma
- Struggling with low energy and health problems such as IBS
- Anxiety/fear/PTSD holding you back from living a full life
- You feel that you are too sensitive. Your Sensitivity feels like a weakness and a burden
- Relationship challenges: expressing your feelings and needs clearly; healthy boundaries; people-pleasing patterns
- Lacking confidence, clarity, purpose, and direction to act on fulfilling your dreams
- Years of trying with self-help, therapy, and coaching with out experiencing lasting positive change.
Why it Works.
- A holistic approach beginning with the simplicity of the breath, achieving deeper states of relaxation
- Backed by the neuroscience of the body/mind connection: Regulate through conscious deeper breathing; Discharge adrenaline through Gentle movement; Rewire your brain’s response to stress by developing Mindfulness and Neuroplasticity–thicken prefrontal and insula brain regions while shrinking an overactive amygdala; Stimulate the vagus nerve, activate the parasympathetic system, and lower cortisol with different breathing techniques
- This is not emotional bypassing. Rather, an embodied practice that allows your heart to lead and your deeper intelligence to shine through
- Learn techniques that activate Alpha and Theta states of consciousness
- More than release and reset techniques, emotional capacity coaching enhances your ability to regulate and process, meaning less reactivity and overwhelm, a greater sense of calm, and stronger resilience.
Emotional Capacity Coach / Counsellor / Life-Work Balance Coach
Meet Christopher Reid
My Mission.
My core focus is to help others reconnect and find balance to support a happier, healthier, purpose-driven, and heart-centred life. My approach works with the whole person to realign heart and mind–body and soul. I help my clients find the courage, trust, and strength to turn things around and find freedom to be their authentic self.
My Background and Experience.
Born in Christchurch New Zealand, in my mid-late 40’s enjoying life with my partner and two boys. We live out of the city, off-grid, close to nature, making the most of our beautiful outdoors–I love surfing, golfing, tramping, gardening, cooking, and always working on being the best version of myself.
I am an accredited counsellor (with certificate in trauma informed therapy) and somatic healing practitioner.
Early in life I trained in Fine Arts, Graphic Design, and Maori Art History. I have previous work experience in the industry of design, marketing, and web. This is where my coaching experience started as I moved into brand and marketing consulting which naturally went into personal/life coaching and business coaching. I have worked with a wide range of businesses over the years.
Modalities. Who I Work With. Costs.
I am accredited in Intuitive Counselling (IICT-NZ). I integrate intuitive compassionate counselling with a holistic-whole-person approach. I have experience supporting anxiety, depression, anger, addiction, grief and loss, trauma/abuse, ADHD, BDP, bipolar, autoimmune disorders, relationship issues, family life/parenting issues, and more. Young and old, with different backgrounds, and beliefs–I have worked with a wide cross-section of society. Some of my work is subsidised through Work and Income NZ, and through a national programme where different organisations/ businesses fund support for their staff and families.
Sessions run for approx. 60 mins at a cost of $160 (incl GST). I offer sessions in person, and by phone or video call