Understand what is driving the anxiety and build the capacity to live with it differently, with a BACP accredited therapist.
Anxiety can feel like a background hum you never quite switch off. You might wake up already braced, run through lists of things that could go wrong, rehearse conversations that have not happened, and find yourself exhausted by mid-afternoon without really being able to say why. Some people experience it as a racing chest, shallow breathing, or a stomach that refuses to settle. Others describe it as a constant low-level unease, a sense of waiting for something bad to happen even when nothing in their life suggests it will.
The difficult part is that anxiety is often trying to help. It is the nervous system doing what it learned to do: scan, anticipate, prepare. The problem is not that it is switched on. The problem is that it has forgotten how to switch off.
Stress works in a similar way. Short bursts of stress are manageable and sometimes useful. Chronic stress, sustained over weeks, months or years, is a different thing entirely, and it gradually reshapes how your body and mind respond to almost everything.
I work with anxiety on two levels. The first is practical. Using elements of CBT, we look at the thought patterns that keep anxiety spinning, the avoidance that shrinks your world a little more each week, and the small behavioural shifts that can interrupt the cycle. These are concrete tools you can start using between sessions.
The second level is deeper. Anxiety is rarely only about the things it seems to be about. For many people there is something underneath it, an older fear, an unprocessed experience, a pattern set up in childhood when the world felt less safe than it needed to be. Where that is the case, we can work more slowly, using person-centred exploration and where appropriate nervous system-informed approaches, to understand what your anxiety is really protecting you from.
We begin with the present. What does your anxiety look like day to day, what triggers it, what has helped so far and what has not. From there, we work out together which approaches are likely to be most useful: practical tools to reduce the immediate intensity, and deeper exploration of the patterns underneath. There is no fixed programme. The work responds to what you bring each week.
Individual counselling sessions are 50 minutes and cost £70. Sessions take place online across the UK via a secure video platform.
If anxiety is shrinking your world, therapy can help you understand what is driving it and build the capacity to respond differently.
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