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The Process and Expected Changes in Anxiety Treatment Therapy

by John Nolan
25th February 20256th April 2025

Anxiety treatment therapy encompasses various approaches, including cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT). These therapies aim to help individuals understand anxiety, manage symptoms, and improve their overall well-being. Changes expected from anxiety treatment therapy include increased self-awareness, development of coping strategies, reduced avoidance behaviours, and a more flexible and balanced emotional state. Finding a qualified anxiety therapist is crucial for effective treatment.

Mental Freedom: Motivations, Benefits, and Tools

by John Nolan
24th February 2025

People pursue mental freedom to alleviate suffering, improve their quality of life, and achieve personal growth. By utilizing self-help tools such as mindfulness, acceptance, and cognitive restructuring, individuals can unlock greater well-being, resilience, and the capacity to live in alignment with their values.

Anxiety Therapists in the Workplace

by John Nolan
23rd February 2025

Anxiety therapists in the workplace use a range of tools and techniques, including SFBT, ACT, mindfulness, NLP, Havening, and emotional awareness practices. These approaches benefit both employees, by improving their well-being and performance, and the organisation, by creating a more supportive, productive, and resilient work environment.

The Ascendancy of Coaching for Depression: Benefits and Advantages

by John Nolan
19th February 20251st April 2025

Coaching for depression is gaining prominence as a method to support individuals in reclaiming balance and enhancing well-being. Its strengths-based, action-oriented approach empowers clients to clarify their values, develop effective coping strategies, and build a more fulfilling life. For therapists, this approach can reduce burnout and increase job satisfaction by focusing on positive outcomes and efficient, versatile techniques.

Tools and Techniques for a Stress Therapist

by John Nolan
17th February 202526th February 2025

A stress therapist uses a combination of tools and techniques, including SFBT, ACT, CBT, Havening Techniques®, mindfulness, values clarification, and lifestyle adjustments, to help clients manage and alleviate stress. These methods empower clients to take control of their lives, build resilience, and enhance their overall well-being.

Tools and Techniques in Coaching for Anxiety

by John Nolan
16th February 202521st March 2025

Coaching for anxiety provides a practical and empowering approach, utilizing tools like SFBT, NLP, and CBT techniques to enhance performance, manage stress, and foster well-being. It is particularly advantageous for work-related anxiety and high-functioning individuals seeking skill-based solutions. While traditional therapies delve deeper into emotional and psychological issues, coaching offers a targeted, action-oriented path to managing anxiety and achieving specific goals.

Benefits of Talking Therapy and Alternatives

by John Nolan
15th February 2025

Talking therapies can provide space to process difficult experiences and promote healing, although sometimes additional approaches are needed.

Anxiety Solutions: Navigating the Landscape

by John Nolan
14th February 2025

A wide array of anxiety solutions are available, ranging from self-help techniques like breathing exercises and mindfulness to professional support from medical practitioners, Havening Techniques practitioners, and solution-focused therapists. Many self-help techniques can be practised independently, while professional support offers tailored guidance and expertise. When approaching anxiety solutions, it is important to consider holistic approaches, individual uniqueness, consistency, and the potential for combining different methods.

The Role of an Anxiety Expert: Tools and Processes

by John Nolan
12th February 2025

An anxiety expert provides comprehensive support by assessing anxiety patterns, guiding skill development, and empowering clients to live more meaningful lives. They utilise a variety of therapeutic tools and processes, including ACT, CBT, SFBT, NLP, Havening techniques, coaching, and mindfulness-based practices, tailored to the individual’s needs. The ultimate goal is to help clients reclaim their lives and move in the direction of their chosen values, even in the face of anxiety.

Finding the Best Therapy for Anxiety: A Guide to Approaches and Support

by John Nolan
10th February 2025

Selecting the best therapy for anxiety involves considering personal preferences, symptom severity, and professional advice. An anxiety therapist can provide support by teaching skills, helping you to understand your anxiety, and supporting you to access values. Modern approaches like CBT, ACT, SFBT, and NLP offer various techniques that can be combined to tailor treatment to individual needs, moving towards a more fulfilling life.

Anxiety Coaching: A Modern Approach to Overcoming Anxiety

by John Nolan
8th February 2025

Anxiety coaching differs from traditional therapies by focusing on solutions, strengths, and client empowerment. People appreciate its positive approach, collaborative nature, and efficiency, which leads to enhanced well-being and lasting change.

A Life Beyond Anxiety: Paths to Well-being

by John Nolan
30th January 202522nd March 2025

A private anxiety therapist can provide valuable support, there are numerous effective alternatives for managing anxiety. The most suitable path depends on an individual’s unique needs, preferences, and circumstances. The ultimate goal is to find the approach that helps people to live a full and meaningful life, free from the constraints of their anxiety.

Navigating the Landscape of Unease: Nervousness, Worry, Anxiety, and Panic

by John Nolan
28th January 202523rd March 2025

Nervousness, worry, anxiety, and panic exist on a continuum of unease, each with unique characteristics while sharing common threads. These experiences are linked by physiological responses, patterns of thinking, emotional regulation issues, and avoidance behaviours. While traditional approaches emphasize reducing negative affect, SFBT and ACT approaches seek to increase positive affect and acceptance. Approaches such as mindfulness and deep breathing can help to calm physical symptoms of anxiety. Questioning thoughts can assist with perspective taking, and exposure therapy can help people with avoidance behaviours.

Coaching for Depression: An Emerging Preference

by John Nolan
25th January 202522nd March 2025

Coaching for depression is an increasingly popular alternative to traditional CBT and psychotherapy. It focuses on strengths, solutions, and future goals, empowering clients to take control of their own recovery. Unlike traditional approaches, coaching is collaborative, brief, and cost-effective, making it a compelling option for many seeking help with depression.

Help for Flashbacks

by John Nolan
24th January 20258th March 2025

Flashbacks are a distressing symptom of trauma and PTSD, and there are many ways to manage them including various forms of therapy, medication, self-help strategies, and lifestyle changes. It is most helpful to acknowledge your feelings, use grounding techniques, and be compassionate with yourself during flashbacks. Seeking professional help is crucial, and there are many different approaches that can be beneficial in managing flashbacks, such as EMDR, ACT, Havening and Somatic therapy. These treatments can help you to process the traumatic memories that are causing flashbacks, and move towards healing.

Rewiring the Anxious Brain: Techniques and the Role of the Havening Therapist14th May 2025
Rewiring the anxious brain leverages the brain's capacity for neuroplasticity to change its responses to anxiety. Anxiety is understood to involve the amygdala and cortex pathways. Techniques targeting the amygdala, such as exposure therapy, relaxation, exercise, and Havening, aim to modify emotional memories and threat responses through experience and direct neurological intervention. Techniques targeting the cortex, like cognitive restructuring and mindfulness, focus on changing anxious thoughts, interpretations, and awareness. Other approaches such as NLP, SFBT, Hypnotherapy, and Neurofeedback also contribute to this process by addressing subconscious factors, promoting solution-focused thinking, conditioning relaxation responses, or directly altering brainwave patterns. A Havening therapist is particularly integral to this process by facilitating amygdala depotentiation through techniques like Havening and guiding clients in self-practices such as CPR for the Amygdala, enabling effective and controlled healing of trauma and building resilience. The goal is to build new neural pathways that resist anxiety and allow individuals to live more fully according to their values.
Reasons for Professionals and Senior Management Seeking Private Anxiety Treatment13th May 2025
Many professional people and senior management seek anxiety treatment, often in private settings, due to the severe impact anxiety has on their careers, performance, and relationships. They may seek effective and tailored solutions beyond temporary symptom relief, favouring approaches that focus on performance, well-being, and client control. Stigma, embarrassment, and the need for privacy to address what can feel like a secret problem are significant motivators for choosing private treatment. They may also be looking for alternative approaches if previous attempts at managing anxiety, particularly through avoidance, have proven costly and ineffective.
An Exploration of Havening Techniques for Anxiety12th May 2025
Havening Techniques for anxiety are a psychosensory treatment using touch to generate delta waves in the brain, which is understood to depotentiate distress encoded in the amygdala. Practitioners guide clients through Havening Touch or Self-Havening, working with issues like panic attacks, phobias, stress, and trauma. A key benefit is the ability to work content-free, meaning clients do not need to verbally disclose details of distressing events. Havening acts as a valuable addition to existing therapeutic toolkits, potentially enhancing the effectiveness of other modalities. It is seen as surpassing traditional anxiety treatments in its described speed, efficacy, and gentleness, allowing clients to process difficult experiences without re-traumatisation. The real-time results and focus on underlying neurological processes are highlighted as particular strengths. While still gaining wider recognition, practitioners find it transforms their practise and provides a powerful self-care tool.
Coaching for Depression11th May 2025
This report has examined coaching for depression, drawing on principles and techniques found in various therapeutic modalities. Coaching-informed approaches differ from traditional therapy by focusing on solutions and positive emotions rather than problems, viewing the client as the expert rather than the therapist, and emphasising possibilities over impossibilities. Potential advantages include building confidence, fostering hope, and promoting action-oriented strategies. For clients, coaching can be preferable due to feeling more understood, empowered, and less blamed. Practitioners may benefit from a more collaborative role and the fulfillment of helping clients achieve lasting positive change. A critical element in coaching for depression is the constant monitoring of progress, often done through scaling questions, tracking goal achievement, and regular check-ins to identify what is better. Key techniques include using positive focus, finding exceptions, externalising problems, challenging negative thoughts, setting SMART goals, and promoting behavioral activation.
Comparing Havening Techniques and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Mental Wellbeing9th May 2025
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and its variants like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) are established psychological approaches that address anxiety, depression, stress, and trauma by focusing on changing thoughts, behaviours, and responses to internal states. CBT often involves techniques like exposure therapy and thought records, aiming to modify reactions that interfere with life goals. While self-help resources exist for CBT, professional guidance is recommended for complex issues and challenging techniques.Havening Techniques are a newer psychosensory modality that targets the neurobiological encoding of distress, particularly in the amygdala. It involves gentle touch (self-applied or by a practitioner) and aims to depotentiate traumatic memories and reduce stress quickly and effectively. Havening can be used content-free and integrates well with other therapies. It is effective for anxiety, stress, and trauma, helping to provide a sense of safety and facilitating shifts in perception. Self-Havening is a valuable tool for self-care, stress reduction, and building resilience, but professionals are necessary for treating significant or complex trauma. Both approaches offer distinct pathways to support mental wellbeing, with professional guidance being crucial for more severe or complex challenges.