Anxiety therapists in Canterbury, England
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Anxiety
Samira Gholami
Counsellor/Therapist, Registered Therapeutic Counsellor
Does worry seem to follow you everywhere, even when things appear to be going well? Perhaps you find yourself anticipating the worst, second-guessing your decisions, or feeling physically tense and emotionally exhausted. Anxiety and fear can make it difficult to relax, trust yourself, maintain relationships, or fully enjoy the present moment. Sometimes, the pressure to meet family, cultural, or personal expectations can make these feelings even more overwhelming.
As a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor (RTC), I offer compassionate, affordable counselling to help you understand and navigate anxiety in a supportive, non-judgmental environment. Drawing from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), person-centred counselling, and trauma-informed principles, I work collaboratively with you to explore the thoughts, experiences, and emotional patterns that may be contributing to your distress.
Together, we can develop practical strategies for managing excessive worry, navigating uncertainty, strengthening emotional regulation, and responding to stressful situations with greater confidence. My culturally responsive approach also recognizes that anxiety can be influenced by family relationships, past experiences, cultural expectations, and the responsibilities we carry.
You don't have to manage everything on your own or wait until anxiety becomes unbearable before seeking support. I offer counselling in English and Farsi and would welcome the opportunity to help you find greater emotional balance, peace of mind, and confidence in navigating life's uncertainties.
8 Years Experience
Online in Canterbury, England
Anxiety
Marisa Berwald
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, PhD
I am a psychoanalyst and licensed clinical social worker, with over 15 years of experience and training in psychodynamic/psychoanalytic approaches to talk therapy. In my practice, I work with people across age groups, with families, couples, and children, with the goal of discovering the desires, dreams, needs that lie behind the more difficult aspects of life. I have two New York City based office locations, making it easy to find a place thats right for you. I work on a sliding scale fee basis and with insurance.
14 Years Experience
Online in Canterbury, England
Anxiety
Lisa Hawkins-Jack
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, LMSW
Anxiety is an emotion that quickly gets out of control if we don’t understand what we are dealing with. A calm you is a better you...
31 Years Experience
Online in Canterbury, England
Anxiety
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.
17 Years Experience
Online in Canterbury, England
Anxiety
Samantha Coleman
Therapist, MBACP Prof Dip
Anxiety and fear can affect every part of life, leaving you feeling trapped in overthinking, worry, avoidance, panic, self-doubt, or constant anticipation that something bad is about to happen. I work with clients to understand not just the symptoms of anxiety, but the deeper patterns, experiences, relationships, and pressures that may be driving it underneath. Together, we can explore what your anxiety is trying to protect you from, why certain fears feel so powerful, and how to develop a greater sense of safety, confidence, and calm. My approach is less about managing symptoms alone and more about understanding your inner world and what may need to change beneath the surface.
13 Years Experience
Online in Canterbury, England
Anxiety therapists in Canterbury, England Statistics
Anxiety therapists in Canterbury, England average 14 years of experience and charge around ¤126 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Integrative Therapy (56%), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (51%), and Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) (44%).
Average years in practice
14 Years Experience
Average cost per session
¤126
Accept insurance
33%
Offer sliding scale
48%
Gender ID
| 65% |
Female |
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| 31% |
Male |
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| 2% |
Gender Fluid |
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| 2% |
Non-Binary |
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Session Type
| 61% |
In Person and Online |
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| 39% |
Online Only |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 56% | Integrative Therapy |
| 51% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 44% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 30% | Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) |
| 29% | Somatic Therapy |
| 28% | Existential / Humanistic Therapy |
| 28% | Psychodynamic Therapy |
Ages Served
| 99% | Adult |
| 58% | Young Adult |
| 54% | Senior |
| 42% | Teen |
| 21% | Children |
Client Focus
| 64% | Women |
| 50% | Men |
| 41% | LGBTQ+ |
| 35% | Persons with Disabilities |
| 34% | Christian |