Anxiety therapy
Anxiety is a common, treatable experience. If worry, tension, panic, or avoidance are limiting your life, therapy can help you understand what’s driving those feelings and develop practical ways to manage them.
What anxiety therapy can help with
Excessive worry and rumination
Panic attacks and fear of panic
Social anxiety and performance fears
Phobias and specific fears (e.g., driving, flying)
Health anxiety and checking behaviours
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)
Obsessive thoughts that fuel anxiety
Avoidance that reduces opportunity and joy
Approaches commonly used
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT): Teaches you to identify and test unhelpful thoughts, build new thinking habits, and practise behavioural experiments and exposure to reduce avoidance.
Exposure therapy: Gradual, supported facing of feared situations or sensations to reduce anxiety response over time.
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT): Builds psychological flexibility through acceptance, values clarification, and committed action.
Mindfulness-based approaches: Grounding and present-moment skills to reduce reactivity to anxious thoughts and bodily sensations.
Skills-based coaching: Breathing, grounding, sleep hygiene, activity scheduling, and relapse prevention planning.
What a typical therapy process looks like
Assessment and goals: We’ll start by understanding your history, symptoms, triggers, and what matters to you. We’ll set collaborative, practical goals.
Skill-building and experimentation: You’ll learn tools (CBT skills, mindfulness, behavioural experiments) and apply them between sessions.
Practice and exposure: With support and planning, you’ll gradually face avoided situations or sensations to reduce fear.
Consolidation and relapse prevention: We’ll review progress, build a maintenance plan, and plan for setbacks.
What to expect in sessions
A warm, non-judgmental space to talk about what’s happening.
Practical, evidence-based strategies tailored to your situation.
Homework between sessions to practise skills and track progress.
Flexibility: therapy