Is our Anxiety Primary or Secondary?

In assessing anxiety, I always ask the question of whether this is primary or secondary. Secondary to being a “Fish out of water”.

Do they have a personality style or cognitive style that is mismatching their environment or context creating unhealthy level of stress?

Answering this question correctly will give one more clarity on how to move forward especially from a counseling point of view.

It can empower them to seek and/or create with more clarity, a better fitting context for their personality and cognitive style compounding over time.