Anxiety

Anxiety Hypnotherapy in Newcastle & the North East

Anxiety can affect the way you think, feel and behave, sometimes making everyday situations seem far more threatening or difficult than they really are. You may find yourself worrying excessively, expecting things to go wrong, avoiding certain situations or experiencing uncomfortable physical symptoms when you feel anxious.

At Peaceful Minds in Newcastle, Sian Barnard provides professional therapy for anxiety, combining CBT, clinical hypnotherapy and psychotherapy techniques to help you understand anxious patterns and develop healthier ways of responding to them.

Understanding Anxiety and Anxious Thinking

Anxiety is a natural response to situations we perceive as threatening, but it can become a problem when worry and fear begin to interfere with everyday life.

You may spend a great deal of time thinking about what could go wrong, replaying situations in your mind or seeking reassurance that everything will be okay. Anxiety can also cause physical sensations such as a racing heart, tension, shaking, sweating or feeling unable to properly relax.

Avoiding situations that make you anxious may provide temporary relief, but repeated avoidance can reinforce the belief that those situations are dangerous or that you are unable to cope with them.

Therapy can help you understand these patterns and begin changing the thoughts and behaviours that may be maintaining your anxiety.

Changing Your Response to Anxiety

Sian combines CBT with clinical hypnotherapy and psychotherapy techniques to provide an approach tailored to you and the particular difficulties you are experiencing.

CBT can help you identify anxious predictions and unhelpful beliefs, examine them from a more balanced perspective and gradually change behaviours such as avoidance or excessive reassurance seeking.

Clinical hypnotherapy can be used alongside these techniques to encourage relaxation and reinforce calmer, more constructive patterns of thinking and responding.

The aim is not to ensure that you never feel anxious again. Instead, therapy can help anxiety feel less overwhelming and give you greater confidence in your ability to manage difficult thoughts, feelings and situations.

Anxiety Therapy in Newcastle & Gosforth

Sian is a Harley Street trained clinical hypnotherapist and experienced CBT therapist providing therapy for anxiety in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Face-to-face appointments are available from Peaceful Minds at the Regent Centre in Gosforth, with online appointments also available if you would prefer to receive therapy from home.

Whether anxiety is affecting your work, relationships, social life or ability to enjoy everyday activities, therapy can help you understand what is maintaining those feelings and develop a calmer and more confident way of responding.

How We Can Help

Therapy for anxiety can help you:

• Reduce excessive worry and anxious thinking
• Recognise thoughts and situations that trigger anxiety
• Challenge negative predictions and unhelpful beliefs
• Reduce avoidance of situations that make you feel anxious
• Manage uncomfortable physical symptoms of anxiety
• Develop greater confidence in your ability to cope
• Feel calmer and less controlled by anxiety in everyday life