Anxiety therapists in Ringwood, England ENG, United Kingdom GB
Anxiety or Fears
Vicky Mould
Counsellor/Therapist, Accredited Professional Registrant (PNCPS Acc.)
Anxiety can come in many forms, yet it can be debilitating and prevent you from living the life you want. I've supported many people through their experiences of anxiety, including social anxiety, health anxiety, generalised anxiety and OCD. Whatever your experiences, I'm here for you in a non-judgemental, compassionate and supportive way. I can work with you to relieve overwhelm or stress, gain control over your life, and move towards increased wellbeing. If you'd like to explore anxiety counselling, please get in touch with me to arrange a low-cost consultation.
13 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Nicole Rolls
Counsellor/Therapist, PG Dip, MA, BACP Accred, EMDR Accred, 20 years experience as a Therapist
I trust that I can work with you and help you overcome your anxiety and fears that are struggling with at the moment, supporting you with the help of Mindfulness, CBT, Exposure, Therapy) Psychodynamics and EMDR so that you can move forward in your life as a free person.
19 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Dr. Amanda Roberts
Psychologist, PhD Clinical Psychology, Masters in Marriage Family Therapy
Working with anxiety disorders requires a comprehensive knowledge of the biological, psychological and learned basis of these complex conditions and finding creative ways to navigate through them to obtain lasting relief.
39 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Sara Aicart-Pendlebury
Art Therapist, Human Givens Practitioner (HG.Dip.P), Member of Human Givens Institute, IFS therapist Levels 1&2, Narm Practitioner
Anxiety can be crippling and obvious. Or it can subtly sabotage our plans. Contact me for a free consultation on recognizing your feelings of anxiety, and applying anxiety management techniques. You are not an anxious person: you are person more susceptible to anxiety – but you can learn to hand it. We all need to experience some degree of anxiety at times – it would be unnatural not to feel any of its symptoms, such as racing pulse, dry mouth, sweatiness and shallow breathing, just before a big speech or exam, for instance – as it helps get us motivated to act. But excessive anxiety causes problems. Excessive anxiety may develop gradually, starting, perhaps, with loneliness after the loss of a loved one; being too shy to make new friends when moving somewhere new; experiencing unwelcome life changes because of chronic illness and pain; or feeling loaded down with too much responsibility – all cases of unmet emotional needs.
When people worry excessively, it is in essence because important emotional needs, such as for safety, connection or status, are not being met. That’s why the human givens approach, which focuses on helping people in distress find healthy ways to meet their emotional needs, is so effective.
For some people, anxiety can develop suddenly, after they are caught up in some tragic disaster, such as a fire or a crash, or are the victims of violence, and their lives become ruled by fear. (This is known as post-traumatic stress.) Anxiety may also take the form of obsessions, compulsions, phobias or a nagging feeling of foreboding – all of which are attempts to ward off a sense of threat.
Yet, as we know, some people face such circumstances without becoming overly anxious, while others end up almost crippled by anxiety. How we explain the negative events that happen to us has a considerable bearing on whether we are likely to suffer from excessive anxiety. Three particular types of thinking are especially connected with its development and its close partner, depression: how personally people take events (they think everything is their fault or that they didn’t get the job because they weren’t good enough, rather than because the competition was particularly stiff); how pervasive they think the effects will be (if they lose their job, they think everything in their world is going wrong, even though their relationship is still strong and they have their health, good friends, etc); and how permanent(they will never get another job, partner, dream house like that one, etc).
People who suffer badly from anxiety also tend to have a lot of negative thoughts running through their minds that they don’t even notice (“I’ll never cope”; “it’s going to be awful”; “no one likes me”) and commonly catastrophise (“I’m going to be late. My boss will sack me!”) Changing negative self-talk and challenging catastrophic thinking help lower stress levels.
Another major cause of troublesome anxiety is negative over-imagination. Anxious people tend to spend a lot of time worrying “What if?”, coming up with a whole variety of dreadful outcomes for themselves or their loved ones. This keeps them in a constant state of high emotional arousal and can take the extreme forms of phobias or obsessive-compulsive disorders. Learning to use the imagination positively – by calmly rehearsing mentally tried and tested techniques (such as deep breathing and distracting thoughts) for dealing with feared or worrisome situations – is very effective. Calming ourselves down, when anxious, is extremely important because high emotional arousal makes us stupid. We literally can’t think straight and that makes the situation worse.
Human givens practitioners can show people how to relax, so that they can bring their own arousal and stress levels down, and how to use their imaginations positively, to rehearse successful outcomes instead of bad ones. They can also help people overcome phobias, panic attacks and traumatic memories quickly and painlessly. And, very importantly, they will encourage people to find ways to reduce their stress and also focus outwards on fulfilling activities (maybe involving the wellbeing of others as well as themselves) – excellent ways of getting their own needs met.
15 Years Experience
Anxiety or Fears
Tilley Fine
Life Coach, Certified Conscious Parent Coach CPMCP™, Clinical Certification for Stress, Anxiety and Self-Regulation
I have suffered from debilitating anxiety in the past, so much so that I normalized it. If you are feeling stressed, anxious or depressed and on the hamster wheel of life where we 'push through' to get through the day, you are most likely stuck in a pattern that is stored in your body.
At my practice, I'm driven by a profound purpose to guide you into healing at the deepest level by allowing you to become your own agent of change. This begins with understanding your patterns and why you are stuck in these cycles. Then, by establishing safety, you can begin to heal.
I offer a unique blend of traditional coaching and therapy merged with spiritual, scientific, and practical methodologies. I firmly believe that anxiety, depression, health ailments, digestion issues, and sleep disturbances can be effectively addressed through somatic practices, starting with the nervous system.
6 Years Experience