therapy for anxiety

anxiety

Anxiety often conceals a wish – a desire or longing, an unfulfilled dream or unmet need you’re not yet fully aware of. You may feel intensely the dizzying panic of anxiety, yet not be sure why or where it’s coming from, nor what would help to alleviate it.

It’s a core part of being human, but can also become completely debilitating. I have a lot of experience working with persistent anxiety. This may be generalised or social anxiety, or I have a particular focus on helping people with health or death anxiety too. Your anxiety may be low-level and ongoing, or you might have moments that are  much more intense, like panic attacks. In therapy we can use a range of methods to help reduce the intensity of those feelings in the moment, and make day-to-day life more manageable.

Psychodynamic and existential therapies are well suited to the deeper work of looking behind your anxiety, and finding that unknown, unmet desire. Seeing it and hearing it, giving voice to it and incorporating it into your life, to help the anxiety lift away.