Anxiety Treatment
Feeling anxious?
Although it is normal to experience mild anxiety many individuals suffer from debilitating anxiety that impacts on all elements of their lives.
Anxiety comes in all kinds of guises - social anxiety is where we find social situations very difficult to be in; phobias involve a fear of a particular thing, such as spiders or flying; agoraphobia is where we find it difficult to leave our homes or be in open spaces; work related stress can impact on sleep and our private life; performance anxiety is where we fear public speaking; generalised anxiety (GAD) is where we can not stop worrying about a number of different things; health anxiety is where we fear that we have got or will get an incurable health related illness; and panic is where we become so anxious we find it difficult to breathe and think we are going to die.
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We can help you to understand your anxiety and what is driving it and provide you with strategies to improve your quality of life.
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Symptoms of anxiety include:
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Feeling anxious, nervous or on edge.
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Are you breathlessness or short of breath.
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Racing, worrisome thoughts.
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Do you struggle to relax? Do you feel restless all the time?
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Sleep can be affected - laying awake with thoughts racing.
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Feeling tired all the time with little energy to do things.
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Do you feel irritable? Do you feel you have little capacity to cope with everyday things?
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Perhaps you find you are not able to concentrate on things because your mind is full of worrying thoughts.
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Do you dread the future? Do you feel something awful might happen.​​​
Treatment for Anxiety
There are many things that we can do to help reduce anxiety, such as exercise, good sleep, a balanced life where we have time to rest, breathing exercises, body scans, and types of relaxation. It might be that your lifestyle or work or family situation cause stress and anxiety and thinking about how to bring about change can help reduce anxiety.
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It may be, however, that your anxiety is not linked to simple changes in lifestyle but to difficulties you have faced in your life. Therapy can help to unpick those experiences and support you to understand how your background history has brought you to where you are today. Therapy can provide you with the tools to feel better and live a life you have always wanted to live.
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As psychologists, we can work with you to look at all of the different things that may be influencing your anxiety levels - this could be related to your history or things in your current life and we will provide you with understanding and strategies to help you back on to the path towards feeling better.
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Our team can provide Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Psychotherapy, or other therapies such as ACT, CFT, EMDR, CAT, Psychodynamic. Existential and Integrative Psychotherapy. Be in touch if you are not sure what you need or what you are looking for and we will match you with the right therapist for your problem.
Meet The Team
At Dr Stuart Psychologists, all of our psychologists have extensive training to doctoral level and decades of experience in their field of expertise. You will be matched with a psychologist that has the knowledge and skill to help you understand and overcome your problem - not just in the short term but for good.