Experiencing anxiety is not the same as simply experiencing stress. It is more like living in a state of physiological tension and worry, which rarely switches off. Living with anxiety is not only exhausting, distracting and depleting, but it can also have detrimental effects on your health, mental wellbeing, career and relationships.

 

Without being given effective tools to help manage anxiety, many people continue to suffer these effects in silence and accept them as part of everyday life. Others learn to function by employing various coping strategies, some healthy and adaptive, others, much less so. 

 

Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy offers a range of effective, evidence-based therapeutic techniques for managing sub-clinical anxiety.

 

The reason anxiety has risen at such a rapid rate is not because we are all suddenly failing at life. It is because life has become an incredibly ripe breeding ground for an extremely anxious experience. That being said, there are a few factors which can either work in your favour or make you more prone to experiencing anxiety. The good news though, is that these are factors that we can work with. They include:

 

Stress Management: Addressing your baseline, physiological stress level: i.e. the regulation of your Autonomic Nervous System (ANS). If you are regularly stressed, your ANS will spend a disproportionate amount of time activated into its Fight, Flight, Freeze response. By using relaxation skills training we work with your nervous system to help establish a more balanced default state of homeostasis. 

 

Cognitive Therapy: Utilising a range of techniques which can include: Cognitive Defusion (defusing yourself from your thoughts), Cognitive Restructuring (addressing thinking habits and cycles which trigger and sustain anxious feelings), and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction techniques including simple, accessible meditation techniques.

 

Skills Training: Anxiety is not something that flares up once, in only one place and then is gone. It's something that tends to pop its head up at all sorts of inconvenient moments. Therefore we work to address potential target situations and triggers that can be problematic. This includes the use of mental rehearsal in hypnosis, applied relaxation training, and developing helpful coping skills. 

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