What we help with
Each page below covers one presenting issue: what it is, how it is worked with here, and how long it usually takes. Start with whichever is closest to your situation.
Presenting issues
panic attacks
A panic attack is a false alarm from a system doing its job badly. The work here is to retrain the alarm, not …
health anxiety
Health anxiety is not hypochondria and it is not attention-seeking. It is a threat system that has locked onto…
social anxiety
Social anxiety is rarely shyness. It is an internal camera pointed at yourself while you are trying to hold a …
driving anxiety
Whether it started with a crash on the A38 or crept in over years, driving anxiety shrinks your map — and the …
fear of flying
Fear of flying is rarely one fear. It is usually control, confinement and catastrophe stacked together — which…
phobias
Phobias are among the fastest things to shift in this room — often because there is one clear moment where the…
intrusive thoughts
The thoughts people are most ashamed of are the ones most likely to be meaningless. Distress is not evidence o…
insomnia
Sleep is not a skill you have lost. It is a process your nervous system has stopped permitting — and permissio…
recurring nightmares
Recurring nightmares are treatable in their own right. You do not have to wait for the rest of the work to fin…
flashbacks
A flashback is a memory without a timestamp. The work is not to forget it — it is to give it a date so it stop…
hypervigilance
Scanning the room kept you safe once. The problem is that nobody told your nervous system when the tour ended.…
emotional numbness
Numbness is not the absence of feeling. It is the cost of holding too much of it for too long.…
low self-esteem
You cannot affirm your way out of a belief that was installed by experience. The belief has to be met where it…
imposter syndrome
Competence does not cure it. That is the tell — the more evidence you accumulate, the more elaborate the expla…
public speaking nerves
There is usually a date in the diary. That makes this one of the most focused pieces of work in the practice.…
exam stress
Blanking in the exam hall is not a knowledge problem. It is a retrieval problem caused by arousal, and retriev…
work burnout
Burnout is not weakness and it is not solved by a fortnight in Spain. It is a depletion state, and depletion h…
anger outbursts
Counting to ten manages an outburst. It does not touch whatever keeps loading the gun before you get to the co…
grief and bereavement
Grief is not a disorder and does not need curing. Sometimes, though, it gets stuck — and stuck grief is someth…
birth trauma
A birth can be medically successful and still be traumatic. Both things are true at once, and the second one i…
medical trauma
Treatment that saved your life can still leave a mark. Being grateful and being traumatised are not mutually e…
relationship anxiety
Testing whether someone will leave is a very efficient way of making sure they do. The pattern is learned, and…
rejection sensitivity
It is not thin skin. It is a disproportionate, fast, physical response to perceived rejection — and for many A…
autistic burnout
Autistic burnout is not ordinary tiredness and it is not depression. It is the collapse that follows years of …
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