The Anxietyand Trauma Clinic

Anxiety Treatment

Generalised anxiety / excessive worry

Persistent worry can make ordinary decisions, responsibilities and uncertainty feel difficult to manage.

A brief enquiry is enough. Please avoid sensitive clinical details in your first message.

Understanding the difficulty

What does this mean clinically?

Worry is a normal response to uncertainty. It becomes clinically important when it is persistent, difficult to control and spread across several areas of life, often alongside tension, restlessness, irritability, fatigue, poor concentration or disrupted sleep. A careful assessment also considers physical health, medication, substance use and other psychological difficulties that may be contributing.

What this can feel like

  • A mind that keeps scanning for what could go wrong.
  • Difficulty switching off, even when there is no immediate danger.
  • Physical tension, restlessness or a sense of being constantly on alert.

How it can affect daily life

  • Sleep, concentration and decision-making may be affected.
  • Work, parenting, studying or relationships can start to feel harder.
  • Reassurance-seeking or avoidance may become part of the pattern.

How therapy can help

  • Map worry patterns and triggers.
  • Build more workable responses to uncertainty.
  • Develop practical routines that support steadier functioning.

Anchor-Based Approach

How ABA strengthens the treatment plan

The Anchor-Based Approach identifies which life anchors are being destabilised by worry and turns that map into practical behaviours that rebuild stability.

The framework connects the clinical formulation to focused priorities, practical strategies and change that can be examined in everyday life.

What meaningful progress looks like

Progress is not limited to feeling better during a session. It is reflected in greater freedom, steadier functioning, less avoidance and a stronger ability to respond differently when the old pattern is activated.

Next step

Contact the clinic with a short enquiry.

Take the first step

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Choose the contact method that feels easiest. Reception will guide the next step. Please avoid sensitive clinical details in your first message.