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Learning to Steady Yourself

For when your mind won’t rest and your body won’t settle.

Anxiety isn’t a flaw in your character. It’s a body doing its job at the wrong time — and it can be taught to settle.

When
Weekends · TBD
Length
Six weeks · 90 min
Circle
A small closed group
For
Adults living with anxiety
Language
English · Ukrainian · Russian
Where
182 Tamarack Circle, Skillman, NJ 08558

Somewhere along the way your nervous system learned to stay switched on — scanning, bracing, ready for a threat that mostly isn’t coming. So the mind races, sleep won’t come, the chest stays tight, and the smallest things feel like emergencies. You can know, rationally, that you’re safe, and still not be able to convince your body of it.

That’s not weakness or overthinking. That’s a nervous system stuck in the on position — and it can be taught to settle.

This is a small group for adults living with anxiety — not a lecture on positive thinking, but real, body-based work on the system underneath it. You’ll come to understand what anxiety actually is, learn concrete ways to bring an over-fired nervous system back down, and — gently — meet the anxious part of you with curiosity instead of war, to understand what it’s been trying to protect you from all this time. A short private conversation comes first, so we can make sure it’s the right fit for where you are now.

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The work, in five movements

Over six evenings, among a few others who know the feeling, we move through it in order.

Movement
One

Understanding the alarm

What anxiety is doing in the body, so it stops feeling like something wrong with you and starts making sense.
Movement
Two

Bringing it down

Grounding, breath, and the skills that actually work in the moment the wave hits.
Movement
Three

The racing mind

Worry and the 3 a.m. spiral — and how to relate to anxious thoughts differently instead of fighting them.
Movement
Four

What it’s protecting

Meeting the anxious part with compassion, and loosening its grip by understanding it rather than battling it.
Movement
Five

A steadier baseline

Sleep, sustainable practice, and a nervous system that learns, over time, to come back to rest.
How it works

Six sessions, ninety minutes each, in a small closed group that stays the same throughout. Held in English, Ukrainian, or Russian.

Because it’s steady, personal work, it begins with a short private conversation before it starts — so we can make sure it’s the right fit, and that a group (rather than individual work) is the right form for what you’re carrying.

How payment works
$65 per person, per session
Six weeks · paid in full at enrollment

Groups run out-of-network and privately. Paying in full at enrollment holds your place for the whole series — and lets the group form as a stable, closed circle: the same people, from beginning to end.

Refunds

A full refund if you withdraw before the first session. In the first two weeks, a prorated refund or a credit toward a future group. Once the group has formed, the remaining sessions aren’t refundable — the circle was built around your place in it — but if something serious comes up, talk to me and we’ll find a fair way through.

Superbill

A superbill is available for possible partial reimbursement through your out-of-network benefits. Whether a group qualifies depends on its nature, so it’s best to check with your insurance company.

To begin — a short private conversation

If your mind won’t rest and your body won’t settle — if you’re tired of white-knuckling through days that look fine from the outside — this is for you. Reach out, and we’ll find out together whether this is the right next step.

Contact to begin
alesia@ivycounselinggroup.com (609) 688-8300
Where we meet 182 Tamarack Circle, Skillman, NJ 08558