Therapy For Anxiety & Panic Attacks In Manchester, Cheshire or Online

Are you feeling overwhelmed by anxious thoughts and feelings? 

Is Anxiety or Panic ruining your quality of life?

Anxiety can suck the fun and enjoyment out of life. It creates self-doubt, eats away at your confidence and stops you from doing what you’re capable of doing. Perhaps you’re having a hard time controlling your anxiety and need some help to become a happier, calmer, more confident you.

Anxiety and Panic Attacks are very real and can be debilitating, they can prevent you from living a full and satisfying life and limit your enjoyment, when you are in the grip of panic or a severe episode of anxiety it can feel like the world is ending.

Although the physical symptoms are very real and sometimes very powerful, the good news is that you can find ways to lessen or even stop the feelings of anxiety or panic altogether.

Therapy for Anxiety seeks to discover the ‘trigger’ to your anxiousness and gently show you ways to manage your response to it.

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Anxiety, unlike depression, is always focused on worrying and prediction of the future.

  • Future dates in your diary such as birthday drinks, a wedding invitation, a work meeting etc. fill you with a feeling of dread.

  • Your mobile ringing or an email ‘pining’ in your inbox makes you feel anxious and overwhelmed.

  • You are aware that although there is no specific event or thing that you are worried or anxious about, you feel overwhelmed by a constant ‘sense’, ‘feeling’ or ‘presence’ of dread and fear.

What is Anxiety?

Anxiety is the body responding to a perceived threat or danger. When there is something to be afraid of, or when we think there is something to be afraid of, our body, or perhaps more accurately our brain prepares our body to go into ‘fight or flight’ mode.

This could be something that presents itself as a physical danger however more often feeling anxious is our emotional response to fears around an insecurity or threat that we perceive exists, for example other people’s expectations of us, or the expectations we have of ourselves.

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What are the Symptoms of Anxiety?

When the body responds this way, the symptoms that the body experiences, because of anxiety, are powerful.

You can experience some, if not all the following:

  • You may notice that your thoughts are racing

  • You may find you are unable to concentrate on things

  • You may feel detached from the world around you

  • You might suffer sweating . . . at times so profusely it is through your clothing

  • That your heart feels as though it is racing

  • Other physical responses such as sweaty palms, feelings of nausea, stomach churning

  • Getting a sensation of ‘butterflies’ in your stomach, hands and legs trembling or tingling

  • Legs feeling ‘like jelly’

  • Feeling the need to go to the toilet

  • Your muscles feeling tense and tight

  • A feeling of light-headed and /or dizziness

  • Your breathing may become shallow and fast.

The severity of these symptoms can vary, at times experienced only mildly, but at their most extreme they can build to a panic attack.

What are Panic Attacks?

Panic attacks are a combination of the above symptoms that are so strong you can feel as though you are having a heart attack or even that you are dying. This fear, that you may be dying, in turn creates more anxiety and the symptoms intensify. . . becoming a horrible vicious circle.

Do you recognise any of these actions in yourself?

  • Avoiding or delaying responding to invites or avoiding speaking or contacting someone so that you can ‘play for time’ until you can think of a way to avoid the social event or meeting.

  • Leaving the opening of emails in your inbox or putting off opening your email inbox all together “if I don’t see it isn’t there and I don’t have to do anything about it”.

  • Letting your mobile go to voicemail rather than pick up an unknown call or a call from a recognised number that may require you to respond.

  • You might attempt to control your panic attacks by using medication, smoking or drinking to ‘cope’ with the symptoms. However rather than helping, stopping or treating anxiety, this makes the anxiety worse.

Why these Panic Attack or Anxiety control behaviours don’t work

Although it may feel alleviated temporarily the anxiety has been avoided rather than dealt with and because you avoid the thing that makes you anxious, you do not learn that the feared thing does not happen, or if it does, it is not as bad as imagined.

When the feeling of dread or worry is constantly there, Therapy for Anxiety and coping with Panic Attacks can help.

Therapy is a space within which you can learn how to cope with and manage the physical symptoms of anxiety and panic when they do arise, thereby helping to realise that you can control it rather than it controlling you.

Most importantly, as well as learning that that the symptoms of anxiety are something that can be controlled by you, rather than the other way around, therapy is also a space to discover what in fact is the ‘trigger’ to your anxiety. It is most important to remember that anxiety is the symptom. It shows up as the result of something else and therapy can help to explore and discover what that is.

If this sounds familiar contact me for more information on how my unique programme can support you.

My unique blend of scientifically proven Psychotherapy and Coaching works with both the conscious and subconscious mind.

I work with a wide variety of different types of anxiety and each person’s experience of anxiety will be unique to them which is why each client’s requirements will be different.

I believe that my blend of techniques enables me to quickly get to the root of the issue and with guidance and learning different strategies you can overcome the feelings that you have been feeling.

I pride myself on being able to deliver a bespoke service to each of my clients after all you are an individual so your needs are individual to you therefore the techniques used will differ from client to client.

  • 12 weekly sessions, followed by 6 fortnightly sessions

  • Clients are often concerned that they will not remember what was discussed. No need to worry you will receive a short session summary and accountability action plan after each session.

  • 24- 7 therapeutic support via my wellness portal

  • Lifetime access to all of my 21 day challenges

  • Access to a resource bank full of help booklets and activity sheets that you can use in between our sessions

  • Hypnotherapy recordings and guided meditations for you to access when you need them.

    Consider it like having a little bit of me in your pocket