Acceptance

Embracing Experience: Understanding and Moving Beyond Avoidance

Experiential avoidance, the attempt to evade unwanted inner experiences, plays a significant role in various mental health challenges, including anxiety,…

3 days ago

Steps to Overcoming Dread: Calming Your Mind and Building Resilience with Self-Help Techniques

Feelings of dread often involve activation of the brain's threat system (amygdala) and an overwhelmed cortex, accompanied by negative thinking…

4 days ago

Navigating Workplace Pressures: Strategies for Stress and Anxiety Management

Effectively managing stress and anxiety in the workplace involves a range of strategies. Conscious breathing techniques can ground you and…

5 days ago

Counselling for Anxiety:When it could be right for you.

Counselling for anxiety offers a supportive space to understand and manage anxiety. It involves building a therapeutic relationship, normalising anxiety,…

6 days ago

Exploring Interventions in Private Anxiety Treatment

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Focuses on accepting anxious thoughts and feelings and committing to valued actions despite anxiety. Employs…

2 weeks ago

Managing Your Nerves

Learning how to control nervousness involves a range of techniques, including focusing on slow, deep breathing to calm the body,…

2 weeks ago

Social Anxiety with Therapeutic Support

A social anxiety therapist specialises in helping individuals overcome intense social fear and avoidance. This requires an approach that directly…

2 weeks ago

Achieving Anxiety Freedom: Reclaiming Your Life

Anxiety freedom is not about eradicating anxiety entirely but about transforming your relationship with it so that it no longer…

3 weeks ago

How reframing could reduce your anxiety.

One might reframe anxious thoughts positively through several techniques outlined in the sources. Reframing involves choosing what meaning to ascribe…

3 weeks ago

Benefits of Consciously Questioning Anxiety

consciously questioning anxiety offers several key benefits: Distinguishes feelings from facts, creating psychological space. Identifies triggers and underlying causes of…

3 weeks ago

ACT Therapy for Anxiety: Why It’s More Effective and How It Works

ACT therapy for anxiety is more effective than earlier therapies because it focuses on psychological flexibility rather than symptom control.…

4 weeks ago

Anxious Feelings Coaching: Solution-Focused Approaches

Anxious feelings coaching uses various approaches including solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and…

1 month ago

Mental Freedom

Mental freedom encompasses freedom from negative thoughts, emotional acceptance, cognitive defusion, values-driven living, and mindfulness. It can be improved through…

1 month ago

Generalised Anxiety Disorder: Role of the Therapist, Distinctions, and Impact on Treatment

A GAD therapist supports clients by addressing the core processes that perpetuate GAD, such as experiential avoidance and maladaptive reactions…

1 month ago

Health Anxiety: Unique Challenges and Therapeutic Adaptations

Health anxiety presents unique challenges related to compulsive behaviours, reassurance seeking, and misinterpretation of bodily sensations. Therapeutic adaptations involve process-focused…

1 month ago