In-person anxiety therapy Spalding, Lincolnshire & online anxiety therapist worldwide
My approach to anxiety therapy
(Or: How I help you take back your life)
Looking for someone who'll help you stop anxiety run your life? (And perhaps suggest something more effective than essential oils for your existential crisis?)
Excellent timing - I specialise in helping people reclaim their lives from anxiety's ridiculous demands.
The problem with traditional approaches (or why most therapy just reinforces the problem)
Let's be honest - most anxiety therapy is about as useful as a chocolate teapot.
Why? Because traditional approaches to anxiety just teach you how to become even better at accommodating your anxiety:
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Breathing exercises? Rather like trying to cure insomnia with more pillows
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Mindfulness apps? Because your phone definitely needs more notifications
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Positive thinking? About as effective as bringing a spoon to a knife fight
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Generic CBT? Writing yet another manual for managing something that shouldn't be managing you
No wonder you're exhausted - you're getting better at dancing to anxiety's tune, not better at living your life!
How I actually help
(Or: Your escape plan from anxiety's absurd demands)
Here at Fantastic Day in Spalding, I use approaches that actually work.
Trained directly by Nick Kemp in Provocative Change Works (PCW), I combine this with eye movement techniques, strategic coaching and yes, occasionally even conversational hypnotherapy to help you:
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See anxiety's ridiculous demands for what they are
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Stop running yourself ragged trying to accommodate your anxiety
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Take back control of your life
Techniques I use:
Think of it as therapy with a backbone - and a sense of humour. We'll look at anxiety's demands and laugh at them together. Because sometimes the best way to deal with anxiety is to realise how absurd its requests actually are.
Looks bizarre, works brilliantly. Like finally clearing out that mental filing cabinet where you've been storing all your "what-if" scenarios "just in case". Spoiler: You really don't need 27 contingency plans for being attacked by a shark in Spalding.
For when you need someone who will actually listen without suggesting you need to "relax more".
Because if one more person suggests chamomile tea...
We'll work on practical ways to stop anxiety running your life like a particularly demanding project manager with impossible deadlines.
While I am absolutely not a fan of "script based hypnosis" (your anxiety didn't come from a template, so why should your therapy?), occasionally conversational hypnotherapy can be very useful.
No pocket watch swinging necessary.
Why my approach to anxiety works better
Traditional therapy often treats anxiety like a delicate house guest who needs to be carefully managed.
I treat it like the unreasonable back seat driver it actually is - one that's been giving terrible directions for far too long.
The result? Instead of:
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Learning to better accommodate anxiety's demands
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Developing more efficient ways to handle anxiety's interference
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Getting better at anticipating anxiety's next move
you'll be
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Taking back control of your life
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Laughing at anxiety's ridiculous requests
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Finally living on your own terms
DEEP & MEANINGFUL MOMENT:
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
Helen Keller