Anxiety Counselling in London | Anxiety Treatment & Therapy

Are you constantly feeling worried or dread? If so, therapy for managing anxiety and coping with panic attacks can help.

Anxiety and panic attacks can be debilitating and prevent you from enjoying a full and satisfying life. The physical symptoms are real and sometimes powerful, but the good news is that you won't die from anxiety. However, the effects of it over time can harm your health. You can find ways to lessen or even stop the feelings of anxiety or panic altogether through therapy.

Anxiety is the body's response to a perceived threat or danger, and the symptoms can be overwhelming. You may experience racing thoughts, inability to concentrate, detachment from the world around you, profuse sweating, a racing heart, and more. Panic attacks are a combination of these symptoms that can feel like a heart attack or even death.

In 2013, there were a reported 8.2 million cases of anxiety in the UK and in England. Women were nearly twice as likely to be diagnosed with an anxiety disorder than men.

To cope with anxiety and panic attacks, many people adopt avoidance behaviors or numb themselves with medication, smoking, or drinking. Unfortunately, these behaviors only make the anxiety worse and have a dramatic impact on your life.

Therapy is a safe space to explore the triggers of your anxiety and learn how to cope with and manage the physical symptoms. Most importantly, it helps you to discover what is causing your anxiety and address it at the source.

Don't let anxiety or panic attacks control your life. Take the first step and contact us to discuss therapy for anxiety.

When to Seek Help for Anxiety Treatment & Therapy

Anxiety is a normal emotion to experience and determining when to seek treatment can be difficult. Typically, when your anxiety is preventing you from fulfilling your activities of daily living at work, school, or home, it is time to seek some help. Signs of anxiety evolving into a disorder include, constant tension or worry, having constant fears and worries that are irrational and consuming, experiencing unexpected and sudden attacks of panic, and nervousness of a danger or threat frequently.

Types of Anxiety Disorders

Seeking help to manage anxiety is critical when the symptoms cause you extreme distress and or disrupt your daily routine. Anxiety can present in several ways:

• Anxiety in association with Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) can manifest as physical symptoms such as insomnia, stomach aches and pains, fatigue, and restlessness.
• Phobia is defined as an irrational and exaggerated fear that presents no real danger, just perceived danger of situations, activities, or specific objects.
• Panic Disorder is characterised by unexpected panic attacks. Panic attacks are abrupt onsets of fear that manifest as intense physical symptoms such as racing heart, sweaty, sensation of choking or difficulty breathing, and chest pain. This disorder is sometimes accompanied by a fear of not being able to get help if an attack occurs - known as Agoraphobia.
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is having unwanted thoughts or behaviors that you feel you have little-to-no control over. The thoughts and behaviors are intrusive by nature and may be accompanied by compulsions.
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an extreme anxiety disorder that is developed after an individual experiences a traumatic or life-threatening event. PTSD can have symptoms such as intense and vivid nightmares or flashbacks and hyper-vigilance.