Support for Anxiety and Panic
A safe container for slowing down. Feel more grounded, more attuned to your inner world, and more able to respond to life’s challenges.
If you’re living with anxiety or panic, it can feel like your body is in a constant state of alert. Tense, wired, or exhausted from holding it all together. You might be overwhelmed by racing thoughts, physical discomfort, or a sense that things could spiral out of control at any moment. It can be hard to breathe, hard to slow down, and even harder to feel safe in your own skin.
In our work together, we begin by creating a sense of internal and external safety. This becomes an anchor, something you can return to when the outside world feels too much, or when past trauma is triggered by present-day experiences. From a Gestalt and somatic perspective, this safety is the foundation for real change.
Together, we explore the wider field of your experience: the environmental stressors, relational dynamics, and historical patterns that may be contributing to your anxiety. This might include family systems, emotionally overwhelming relationships, or social situations that leave you feeling out of your depth. With gentleness and care, we bring awareness to unresolved trauma and the coping strategies you developed to survive it, strategies that may no longer be serving you. As you begin to recognise these patterns, new possibilities emerge. You begin to notice that you have choice.
Gently guiding you to regulate your breath restore flow in your body
Excitement and anxiety are actually quite closely related. When we’re in connection with another person, there can be a natural rise in energy, an excitement about being seen or known. But if that energy can’t be supported, if it’s interrupted, judged, or shut down, it can quickly shift into anxiety.
In therapy, we bring curiosity to what helps you stay with that energy. What support do you need to move from anxiety into excitement? We also look at the thoughts that influence this process and the bodily sensations that accompany and sometimes intensify anxious states.
Breath is central here. When we’re anxious, the breath often becomes shallow, restricted, or even held. Gently guiding you to notice and regulate your breath helps restore flow in the body, supporting you to return to a place of balance and grounding when emotions or sensations feel too much.
Rewiring old narratives, gently desensitising triggers, and bringing the body into alignment
We also work with your unique defence mechanisms, not as something to be “fixed,” but as old, protective strategies that once served a purpose. You might internalise your experiences instead of expressing yourself. You might deflect discomfort, disconnect from your needs, or project your inner distress onto others. Therapy invites you to meet these responses with curiosity, not judgment, so you can stay more present, more connected to your experience, and more able to regulate yourself in moments of challenge.
Anxiety is often the result of a nervous system that’s been chronically overstimulated. To support healing, we look at ways to rewire old narratives, gently desensitise triggers, and bring the body into alignment with the cognitive insights you’re developing. This integration between body and mind helps you better understand what you need, and how to manage your energy in a way that feels steady and empowering.
As this process unfolds, your therapy space becomes a safe container for slowing down, tuning in, and experimenting with new ways of being. With mindfulness, relational support, and embodied awareness, you begin to feel more grounded, more attuned to your inner world, and more able to respond to life’s challenges.