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Anxiety Counselling

 

Anxiety can hugely restrict your ability to get the most out of life whether through avoiding situations that are causing you anxiety or through the anxiety you are experiencing reducing your ability to cope and enjoy life.

There are several different approaches to anxiety counselling:-

Behavioral Approaches to counselling anxiety - Broadly speaking these approaches work through both safely and gently confronting you with your fears (desensitizing) as well as training you to interpret the experiences and situations causing the anxiety differently.  For instance if someone had a phobia about spiders they might be introduced to pictures of spiders then "toy spiders" then small spiders in a safe and supportive environment.  Equally they would learn ways to re-interpret their fears in more rational ways.

Humanistic Approaches to counselling anxiety - These approaches focus on providing a safe environment for you to explore your fears and feelings.  You will be less likely to learn and be taught coping mechanisms than with behavioral approaches but through talking with an expert counsellor about your feelings you will often find your anxiety and fear lessening.  Also you will be supported to explore the routes and causes of your anxiety which can be an effective way of addressing the anxiety.

Other therapists will take different approaches and the approach taken to work with an issue such as OCD might be very different from counselling general anxiety or post traumatic stress.

We can help you chose the right therapist and the right approach for you.  This might depend on the exact nature of your anxiety and how that matches the experience and training of our counsellors, where the routes of your anxiety are or on which type of approach you would feel most comfortable working with.  If you want to know whether counselling is right for you or you want to know more able the different counsellors we have available in your area then please contact us on (0161) 300 0410, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or use the contact form on the right of this page.

You might also be interested in another article we have about anxiety:-

http://lighthouse-counselling.co.uk/articles/47-anxiety

 
 

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