CBT & Hypnotherapy for Anxiety – Regain Control & Find Calm
Counselling for anxiety and hypnotherapy for anxiety offer powerful, evidence-based support for people in Blackheath SE3, Greenwich SE10, and Woolwich SE18 who feel overwhelmed by worry, panic, or constant overthinking. Anxiety can affect your thoughts, emotions, and physical wellbeing (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). As a result, when you’re caught in a loop of fear, tension, or burnout, it can feel as though your whole system is permanently on high alert.
Many people experience:
• racing thoughts
• panic attacks
• trouble sleeping
• physical tension
• an internal pressure that’s difficult to switch off
Because of this, anxiety can influence every part of your life – your mood, relationships, work, and overall ability to feel present.
However, the good news is that you don’t have to stay stuck in survival mode.
In fact, CBT and hypnotherapy for anxiety provide clear, effective ways to calm your nervous system, shift unhelpful thinking patterns, and restore a sense of clarity and control.
How Counselling for Anxiety, CBT & Hypnotherapy Can Help
✔ Understand Your Triggers
Through counselling for anxiety, you learn to identify the thoughts, beliefs, and situations that activate your stress response — so you can respond thoughtfully rather than react automatically (LeDoux, 2015; Barlow, 2002).
✔ Break Anxious Thinking Patterns
CBT helps challenge and change the negative loops that fuel anxiety, worry, and self-doubt. Consequently, this creates space for more balanced thinking and emotional steadiness (Beck, 1976; Hofmann et al., 2012).
✔ Calm the Nervous System with Hypnotherapy
Furthermore, hypnotherapy for anxiety works directly with the subconscious mind to reduce fear responses, relax the body, and create a deep sense of safety and calm (Hammond, 2010).
It can help:
As a result, hypnotherapy often helps:
• quiet internal noise
• interrupt panic cycles
• reduce the intensity of anxious thoughts
By calming both mind and body, hypnotherapy supports fuller nervous-system regulation.
Therefore, by calming both mind and body, hypnotherapy helps regulate your entire nervous system.
✔ Strengthen Emotional Regulation
CBT and hypnotherapy both support emotional flexibility – allowing you, in turn, to respond more calmly to pressure, uncertainty, or conflict (Craske et al., 2014; McEwen, 2007).
✔ Build Confidence in Facing Challenges
Avoidance strengthens anxiety over time. However, with the right therapeutic tools, you can safely face what feels uncomfortable, rebuild trust in yourself, and develop patterns that support confidence and resilience (Barlow, 2002).
A Practical, Evidence-Based Approach to Feeling Better
CBT focuses on the conscious thoughts and behaviours that maintain anxiety.
Meanwhile, hypnotherapy works with deeper subconscious patterns — the imagery, beliefs, and automatic responses that shape how you feel.
Together, counselling for anxiety, CBT, and hypnotherapy help you:
• release mental and physical tension
• quiet anxious thought loops
• build healthier thinking patterns
• respond more calmly to daily triggers
• restore your inner sense of calm and clarity
Overall, this combined approach supports clients across SE3, SE10, and SE18, offering both insight and practical tools for lasting change.
For more about CBT, see the NICE Guidelines on Anxiety: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg113
Your Calm Is Closer Than You Think
With the right support, you can feel calmer, clearer, and more in control of your emotional world. Counselling for anxiety and hypnotherapy for anxiety offer a clear, effective path toward long-lasting emotional wellbeing.
When you understand the patterns driving your anxiety – and learn how to regulate your mind and body – life begins to feel more manageable again.
Ready to take the next step?
Book a consultation to explore how CBT and hypnotherapy can help you reduce anxiety, manage stress, and feel more like yourself again.
Academic References
American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.).
Barlow, D. H. (2002). Anxiety and its disorders: The nature and treatment of anxiety and panic (2nd ed.). Guilford Press.
Beck, A. T. (1976). Cognitive therapy and the emotional disorders. International Universities Press.
Craske, M. G., Rauch, S. L., Ursano, R., Prenoveau, J., Pine, D. S., & Zinbarg, R. E. (2014). What is an anxiety disorder? Depression and Anxiety, 31(6), 335–357.
Hammond, D. C. (2010). Hypnosis in the treatment of anxiety- and stress-related disorders. Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, 10(2), 263–273.
Hofmann, S. G., Asnaani, A., Vonk, I., Sawyer, A. T., & Fang, A. (2012). The efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy: A review. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 36(5), 427–440.
LeDoux, J. (2015). Anxious: Using the brain to understand and treat fear and anxiety. Viking.
McEwen, B. S. (2007). Physiology and neurobiology of stress and adaptation. Physiological Reviews, 87(3), 873–904.