Counselling 4 Anxiety
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Recent Posts
Breathing Exercise: A Key Tool During Panic Attacks and Anxiety
One of the things that I hear from clients is 'what can I do to slow down the panic'? Well, I think that a combination of understanding how and why anxiety and panic may have developed in someone's life, allied to coping mechanisms and the reduction of stress, makes a long term difference and aids […]
Anxiety Reactions: Are Our Bodies Trying to Keep Us Safe
One of the paradoxes of people with anxiety conditions, whether that be a Social Anxiety Disorder or Panic Disorder, is that sufferers usually translate the experiences into a set of life threatening experiences, given that their sympathetic nervous system is triggered and with that there are corresponding increases in their heart rates, sweating, breathing rates […]
Cognitive distortions in anxiety: What can we do as therapists?
Specialising in anxiety conditions such as generalised, social anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder has demonstrated to me how deep and ingrained cognitive distortions are in people who have suffered long-term anxiety. This is also a problem with people who may have had anxiety-related cognitions for less than five years and this depends on the strength of belief in […]
How Anxiety is a Protective Response by the Body? – Counselling 4 Anxiety
I just wrote about the rise in anxiety felt post the pandemic and the kinds of search terms that are being used in counselling directories in the U.K. I also have written this piece in the Counselling Directory about how the way that anxiety is framed and talked about by front-line health professionals, needs to […]
