Sound familiar?

• Replaying conversations that have happened, and rehearsing ones that haven't.

• Awake at 3am with a list running.

• Dreading meetings, seminars or social plans, then picking them apart afterwards.

• Performing ‘fine’ all day, and privately running on empty.

If two or more of these ring true, it's worth a conversation.

What anxiety therapy actually is

Anxiety therapy is a structured form of psychological treatment, delivered by a qualified therapist, built to help you understand what's driving your anxiety and develop practical ways to live well alongside it. NICE's recommended approaches for anxiety disorders in the UK include CBT, ACT, and applied relaxation.

It isn't advice. It isn't "just talking." It's a structured process with a clear trajectory and a named method behind it. Done well, you should notice a shift within the first few sessions and meaningful change within eight to twelve.

"The clients who get the most out of therapy are usually the ones who've stopped trying to think their way out of it. Anxiety is excellent at being argued with — it just argues back harder. The work is to relate to it differently, not to win against it." — Albie Mew-Davies, MBACP, Co-founder & Clinical Lead, Eunoia Health

Types of anxiety we treat

Anxiety shows up in different shapes, and treatment is built around what you're actually experiencing rather than a generic protocol.

• Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is persistent, excessive worry across work, health, family, or money that lasts six months or more. Around 6 in 100 people in the UK have GAD in any given week. You don't always know what you're anxious about — you just know you are.

• High-functioning anxiety describes chronic worry and inner turmoil sitting underneath a life that looks, from the outside, entirely under control. It isn't a formal diagnosis, but it's a recognisable pattern: perfectionism, overwork, an inability to switch off, a private exhaustion nobody around you sees.

• Social anxiety is the fear of being judged, scrutinised, or humiliated in social or performance situations. It isn't shyness — it's the dread that builds before meetings, the post-event replay where you catalogue every sentence, the avoidance of rooms where you'll be visible. It often shows up in people who are good at social situations and dislike every one of them.

• Health anxiety is persistent worry about having or developing a serious illness, even after medical reassurance. The searching. The body-scanning. The reassurance that lasts forty minutes before the next symptom appears. It's exhausting because the thing you're afraid of is always with you. Health anxiety often runs alongside OCD-spectrum patterns — see our OCD page for more on how the two connect.

• Panic disorder and panic attacks involve sudden episodes of intense fear with physical symptoms — racing heart, breathlessness, tingling — usually peaking within ten minutes. Panic attacks aren't dangerous, though the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies notes that the fear of having another one often becomes its own problem. Therapy reduces both the frequency and the dread around them.

• Burnout and work-related anxiety combines chronic occupational stress with anxiety symptoms — Sunday dread, pre-meeting nausea, a weekend that never quite recovers you. When the job is the trigger and the job isn't going anywhere, the work is to change your relationship to the pressure, not to self-care your way through it.

Why come to us

• Built for high-functioning anxiety. Most of our clients are capable, conscientious and quietly exhausted, whether they're at university, early in a career or running a team. We know what anxiety looks like when you're still delivering.

• Stop arguing with your thoughts. Most advice tells you to fight anxious thoughts. We use ACT and CBT, both evidence-based, to help you stop treating them as instructions and get on with what matters.

• Structured and time-limited. A clear plan, reviewed every six sessions. The aim is for you to need us less, not more.

• One therapist throughout. The same person every session, who knows your context.

Start with a conversation, not a commitment

Fifteen minutes, one honest conversation, no clinical assessment required. If it's a good fit, we'll talk about what comes next. If it isn't, you'll still have fifteen minutes back and a clearer sense of what you're looking for.