Therapy for Anxiety
Brighton, Hove and Worthing

Anxiety can be exhausting — a constant hum of worry, tension or overwhelm that makes it hard to switch off. You might already know what’s driving it, or simply feel on edge without quite knowing why. Either way, you don’t need a diagnosis or a tidy explanation to start therapy.

Key Information

• What: One-to-one psychotherapy for anxiety, worry, panic and overwhelm.
• Where: In person in Brighton, Hove and Worthing, or online therapy for anxiety.
• Approach: Relational and integrative — looking at the anxiety itself, and what it’s connected to.
• First step: Book a free 30-minute phone consultation, no commitment.
• Format: Weekly sessions, open-ended — not a fixed course.

How I Can Help with Anxiety

I offer face-to-face therapy and my approach is relational and integrative. This means I am interested not only in the symptoms of anxiety, but also in how anxiety may be connected to your relationships, your history, your self-criticism, and the ways you have learned to stay safe around other people.

Anxiety is a normal response to threat, uncertainty and pressure — useful, even, in small doses. It becomes a problem when the sense of threat doesn’t switch off, or when your life starts organising itself around avoiding discomfort: putting off decisions, avoiding situations that matter to you, or leaning on control, reassurance or perfectionism to feel safe.

You don’t need a diagnosis, or to know exactly what kind of anxiety you’re dealing with, to begin. We can start with what you’re noticing.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where do you offer therapy for anxiety?

I see clients in person in Brighton, Hove and Worthing, as well as offering online therapy for anxiety if you’d prefer, or if in-person sessions aren’t practical.

Can therapy help if I don't know why I feel anxious?

Yes. Many people come to therapy feeling anxious without fully understanding why. Therapy can help you explore what may be contributing to it, rather than needing you to arrive with a clear explanation.

Is anxiety therapy just about coping techniques?

Not necessarily. Some people want practical ways to manage anxiety, and that can be useful. But psychotherapy can also help you understand the deeper patterns that may keep anxiety going.

How Anxiety Can Show Up

Anxiety can take many forms. It may show up as worry, rumination, self-doubt, overthinking, or a constant need to anticipate problems before they happen. It can also be felt physically, through a racing heart, tightness in the chest, nausea, shallow breathing, difficulty sleeping, or a sense of being on edge.

Anxiety can also affect the way you relate to other people. You might worry about:

disappointing others
being criticised
seeming too much
needing too much
getting things wrong
being misunderstood

You may find yourself:

people-pleasing,
withdrawing,
becoming irritable
over-explaining,
struggling to say what you really think or feel.

Some people come to therapy with a clear sense of the kind of anxiety they are struggling with, such as social anxiety, health anxiety, panic attacks, work-related anxiety, performance anxiety, or relationship anxiety.

Others simply know that anxiety is taking up too much space in their life. We can start in either place.

How Psychotherapy Can Help with Anxiety

Psychotherapy can help you manage anxiety, but it can also help you understand it.

Rather than only trying to push anxious feelings away, therapy offers a space to become curious about what they may be connected to. We might explore what tends to trigger your anxiety, how you respond when it appears, and what patterns repeat across different parts of your life.

Anxiety often makes more sense when it is understood in the context of a person’s relationships, history and sense of self. It may be connected to self-criticism, current pressures, earlier experiences, or the need to stay alert to what others want or expect.

In therapy, we might look at whether anxiety gathers around particular patterns: fear of conflict, fear of judgement, difficulty trusting yourself, feeling responsible for other people’s feelings, or finding it hard to express anger, need, disappointment or vulnerability.

The aim is not to become a person who never feels anxious. Anxiety is part of being human. But therapy can help you feel less dominated by it, recognise familiar patterns earlier, and make choices that are less governed by fear.

Get Started with Counselling for Anxiety

If you are considering therapy for anxiety, you do not need to arrive with everything clearly worked out. You may know exactly what you want help with, or you may only have a sense that something is not right and that anxiety has become too present in your life.

In a first session, we can talk about what has brought you to therapy, how anxiety is affecting you, and what you may be hoping for from the work. We can also think together about whether ongoing psychotherapy feels like the right fit.

I offer weekly psychotherapy sessions for adults. If you would like to explore beginning therapy for anxiety, you are welcome to contact me to arrange a free initial phone consultation.

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