Online anxiety therapy can help you in beating anxiety for good!
No-one is a stranger to a feeling of anxiety to a certain degree; a high-stress situation or workday to a sudden and dangerous situation would leave anyone feeling anxious. But having chronic issues with anxiety attacks can place you in a position where you feel stressed even when there isn’t any reason to be
If you’re one of many adults living with an anxiety disorder, you may constantly feel on edge or always worried about something to the point where it disrupts your life. With expert psychological help from Harley Street Psychotherapy Clinic, you can learn to manage your anxiety and reduce your symptoms.
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Anxiety, in its many forms, has been an evolutionary trait of our species. In previous centuries, it’s proven a useful survival tool in our arsenal. But in our fast modernising world, it is fast becoming a risk to mental and physical health for many.
Panic Disorder – This includes recurrent panic attacks which can be triggered by a various number of reasons
Generalised Anxiety Disorder – This is characterised by an inordinate level of anxiety and worry
Social anxiety You feel extremely uncomfortable in social situations or when you have to meet new people.
Helping you kick out Anxiety Disorders
Stressful elements of our day can result in an anxiety attack. From a particular relationship, workplace, or even past experiences can make our days more difficult than they have to be.
Our team of Therapists can help you identify the potential causes of your Anxiety.
Certain triggers in our daily lives can lead to an attack of anxiety, so identifying and creating coping mechanisms will allow you to take on your day without worrying about your triggers.
Your counselling therapist will help you create a set of goals, including a personalised plan, allowing you to measure your success, and gradually push back against your obstacles and help you get free from Anxiety!
We offer a diverse range of treatments and care for whatever method our therapists believe is the best fit for you. From weekly anxiety counselling sessions to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
On rare occasions, medication can make a great difference (Subject to GP or Psychiatrist recommendations).
Our therapists and counsellors offer a wide range of treatment methods across a wide range of Anxiety based disorders.
These range from Generalised Anxiety to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder including Phobias and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
If you feel you’re being held back by your anxiety then don’t wait! Call us now for a consultation and get free from Anxiety now!
Anxiety, in its many forms, has been an evolutionary trait of our species. In previous centuries, it’s proven a useful survival tool in our arsenal. But in our fast modernising world, it is fast becoming a risk to mental and physical health for many.
Other forms of anxiety are:
Over a prolonged period of time, a medical professional should be able to diagnose GAD and Panic Disorder by symptoms like the following:
Panic Disorder is identified as feelings of sudden attacks extreme anxiety. These attacks can range in length and intensity depending on the person.
Generalised Anxiety Disorder is more common than people think and it is the most commonly occurring form of Anxiety. More than 5-10% of the British population suffers from GAD to some level of intensity.
The number of people that suffer from Panic Disorder is more difficult due to the way it is felt by sufferers.
The most common age that people suffer from GAD is in their 20s. Statistically, women are more at risk of suffering from GAD and Panic Disorders than men.
Regrettably, there still appears to be a stigma and difficulty in identifying the symptoms as only 25% of sufferers diagnosed continue on to receive treatment. Without anxiety counselling treatment, these conditions can lead to the development of more detrimental issues such as Agoraphobia and other mental health conditions such as Depression.
GAD and Panic Disorder can be caused by a wide variety of things.
Personal experience is a major contributor to anxious behaviour that could later develop into a wider issue such as GAD and Panic Disorder. A particular event, which causes the sufferer anxiety, can lead to them being conditioned to be instinctually anxious about anything related to that event.
Underlying mental health problems can exacerbate the impact of anxiety. Poor self-esteem and negative coping methods can contribute to escalating issues with GAD and Panic Disorder. This can then lead to issues with personal and professional relationships with others.
Unresolved issues in a sufferer’s past can lead to the increasing impact of GAD and Panic Disorder on everyday life. Trauma such as PTSD and negative influences in the formative years of a child’s life can lead to a worsened level of anxiety.
A lack of social relationships can also be a contributor to problems with anxiety. With no structures of support to help provide an emotional outlet, the individual can find themselves alone and isolated with no way of expressing their anxiety in a constructive way.
Evidence also shows that environmental factors such as observing others. Anxiety observed in others as a child can lead to the imitation of this behaviour.
It’s challenging to identify a single cause of anxiety as people have varied lives and experiences. Others find that their experiences have been repressed, leading to them suffering from anxiety with no clear understanding as to why.
The influence of genetics also plays a key role in the development of anxiety over time. The alterations to a serotonin transporter gene have been associated with the development of GAD.
Medications have also been shown to cause side effects such as panic attacks and Anxiety.
We have all, at some point in our lives, felt the effects of anxiety; so it’s easy to sympathise with those that suffer from it long-term. But while there is a mutual understanding of Anxiety, there are still common misconceptions and stigmas, which profoundly impact on our ability to understand and empathise with sufferers.
While observers of those with anxiety shrug off their behaviour as overly dramatic or completely irrational. Sufferers of Anxiety can’t help the fact that GAD or panic disorder disrupts their day and lives overall. Such stigmas may lead to a worsening of their condition; forcing them into unsociable behaviours such as isolating themselves from others within their social circle or workplace.
Panic Attacks are also misunderstood as a life-threatening condition such as a Heart attack, leading to admissions to hospital where they would otherwise be unnecessary. This also leads to detrimental behaviour by the sufferer; they may believe they’ve wasted peoples time and resources, causing them to develop longer-term issues such as increasingly low self-esteem and even depression.
The key attributes of GAD are demonstrated as:
Patients that suffer from GAD experience the majority of these symptoms within a week.
Panic Disorders are typically divided into two types: Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia and without. This leaves out Panic attacks due to the effects of medication or from pre-existing medical conditions.
Without treatment, Anxiety of any kind can gradually become worse, leading to increased issues with anxiety and the development of other mental health condition.
While sufferers may appear to be undergoing recovery, anxiety is a condition, which can cause relapses depending on the person. Those suffering from Anxiety should seek out medical advice and treatment.
Despite misconceptions and stigmas attached to it, treatment for anxiety of any kind holds a significantly high success rate for sufferers. Treatments are always evidence-based and are constantly adapted to assure effectiveness.
Our therapists and Counsellors always assure expert and tailor-made support to sufferers of GAD and Panic Disorder. We strive to abide by medical guidelines set out by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).
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We emphasise a psychological approach through the use of counselling and psychiatric therapy. In conjunction, medication may also be required but is dependent on the individual and their specific needs relative to their condition.
The methods of treatment available are varied depending on the course of action decided upon by you and your doctor.
Both psychotherapy and counselling can help in identifying the root causes of the sufferer’s Anxiety. Including how to develop management techniques in order to support good management over time.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) has also proven highly effective against Anxiety. This is because it provides emotional support for sufferers for them to use on a daily basis. CBT allows for the development of techniques to help with long-term anxiety.
Counselling offers services such as mindfulness and relaxation techniques along with promoting personal awareness. Medications have been proven effective alongside longer-term mindfulness and counselling. This depends on the sufferer’s individual needs, however.
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