Understand anxiety. Work with your nervous system.
Develop practical ways to respond, at a pace shaped around you.
A structured programme for learning techniques, including somatic therapy, nervous-system regulation and mindfulness, that may help you understand and respond to anxiety differently, rather than relying on any single method.
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Mind, body and environment can all shape the anxiety response
Anxiety can show up through worry and prediction, and through breathing rate, tension, energy, sensation and action. These experiences can be understood as part of the body's protective response to threat, uncertainty or pressure.
Thoughts and attention
Worry, prediction and threat scanning.
Body and nervous system
Breathing, tension, heart rate and arousal.
Actions and avoidance
Checking, pulling back and seeking certainty.
Needs and context
Sleep, relationships and current pressures.
Each part can feed the next, and noticing the cycle is often the first step in working with it.
An open approach, not a fixed script
The programme is not built around one technique. Somatic therapy, nervous-system regulation and mindfulness are each offered as techniques to learn and try, alongside practical psychological strategies, adapted to the person and the pace that feels manageable. What helps varies from person to person, and part of the work is finding out what's useful for you.
Understand
Explore what activates anxiety and what may keep a pattern going.
Notice
Build safer awareness of thoughts, sensations and early signs.
Respond
Practise psychological and body-based ways to create more choice.
Apply
Bring the work into ordinary life and situations that matter.
These are techniques to learn and practise, offered honestly as things that may help, not a guaranteed fix. If something isn't working for you, that's useful information, and we'll try something else.
Making sense of an anxious moment
The aim is not to force calm. A short check-in can help you notice what is happening and consider what may support you next.
Orient
Notice where you are and what is happening around you.
Notice
What thoughts, sensations, emotions or urges are present?
Support
What might help your body feel a little more supported?
Choose
What is one manageable action that fits the situation?
Areas the work may draw on
Not a fixed curriculum to move through in order, but themes that come up naturally, in whatever sequence fits what you're working with.
Understanding your anxiety
Map thoughts, sensations, emotions and actions.
Threat, safety and the nervous system
Explore activation, settling and recovery.
Recognising triggers and patterns
Notice situations, expectations and pressures.
Working with body sensations
Relate differently to breathing, tension and energy.
Worry, thoughts and attention
Respond differently to prediction and threat scanning.
Avoidance and manageable steps
Identify appropriately paced next steps.
Needs, boundaries and support
Explore routines, relationships and responsibilities.
Your continuing plan
Build a realistic plan for ongoing practice.
Sometimes the simplest movements help most
Crossing your arms and applying gentle, steady pressure is one small way to bring a sense of grounding back to the body. It is not a fix on its own, just one more tool to have on hand alongside the others.
For anxiety that has started taking up too much space
Structured individual support for anxiety affecting daily life, including when physical sensations and nervous-system responses are a significant part of the experience.
Understand the pattern
Include the body
Build practical responses
Finding the right level of support
A discovery call is an opportunity to consider whether this programme fits what you need. If another form of therapy, medical assessment or specialist support appears more appropriate, I will be open about that.
You do not need to have this figured out before you start. That is what the sessions are for.
Support shaped around your needs, not a fixed course
There's no set number of sessions. We agree the pace together, review it regularly, and adjust as things develop.
60-minute sessions, online and one-to-one
Frequency and length agreed together
No fixed number of sessions
Progress reviewed and the plan adjusted as needed
Individual 60-minute online sessions, billed as you go.
Trauma-informed therapist
I bring experience across a broad range of nervous-system and body-based regulation approaches, alongside more familiar talking-therapy techniques, drawing on whichever combination fits the person in front of me.
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A free discovery call is a low-pressure way to see whether this is the right fit.
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