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17 results for “anxiety”
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What Is Social Anxiety?
What is social anxiety disorder, the fear of being judged by others and embarrassed? How can you recognise it, and what happens in therapy?
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Anxiety disorders
Being constantly on edge, worry you can't control and tension in the body: working with anxiety that narrows everyday life.
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Phobias and social anxiety
Working on excessive fear of particular objects or situations and on intense anxiety about how others will judge you.
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How Are Phobias Treated?
What is a phobia, an excessive fear of an object or situation? What types are there, and how are phobias worked on in therapy?
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Fear of Being Alone: The Abandonment Schema
The fear of being alone is sometimes a trace of the abandonment schema. How the schema shows up in relationships and how it is worked on in schema therapy.
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What Is the Abandonment Schema?
The abandonment schema shows itself in close relationships through anxiety, jealousy and clinging behaviour. Its signs, its origins and the therapy process.
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What Causes Panic Attacks?
A racing heart, shortness of breath and the fear of “what if it happens again”: the symptoms of panic attacks, the beliefs underneath them and how they are worked on in therapy.
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Growing Up with an Unpredictable Parent
How does growing up with an inconsistent, unpredictable parent shape the way we trust, relate to others and regulate our emotions as adults?
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Are You a Perfectionist?
Perfectionism is a common trait, both in everyday life and in the therapy room. When is it helpful, and when does it become exhausting?
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Working on unwanted, distressing thoughts that come to mind and the repeated behaviours used to ease the distress they cause.
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
One of the most extensively researched therapy approaches: it looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour, and moves forward with concrete goals and skills.
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EMDR Therapy
A structured therapy method that helps the mind reprocess distressing memories, carried out with bilateral stimulation such as eye movements.
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Mindfulness
A skills-based approach built on bringing attention to the present moment without judgement; it supports work on anxiety, stress and emotion regulation.
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Why Go to Therapy?
Therapy isn't only for moments of crisis. On what therapy is, who it can help and how the process works.
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Schema Therapy
An integrative approach that focuses on understanding and changing patterns of feeling, thinking and relating (schemas) that form in childhood and repeat in adulthood.
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Child-Centred Play Therapy
An approach in which children express their feelings and experiences through play, their natural language, within a safe therapeutic relationship.
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Filial Therapy
An approach in which parents learn, with the therapist's guidance, to hold special play sessions with their child, aiming to strengthen the bond between parent and child.