hypnotherapy for anxiety in warwickshire + online

Therapy for anxiety

Anxiety can keep you living ahead of yourself. Therapy can help you feel more present, build confidence and get back to doing the things anxiety has been getting in the way of.

hypnotherapy for anxiety

When your mind is always looking for what could go wrong.

Anxiety isn’t always loud. It can be the conversation you’re still replaying hours later, the decision that feels harder than it should or a sense that something could be about to go wrong.

You might appear to be coping while using enormous amounts of energy trying to stay ahead of everything. Or anxiety may already be affecting your confidence, choices, relationships and the things you feel able to do.

Anxiety is a normal part of being human. But when it begins making decisions for you, narrowing your life or leaving you constantly on alert, it can be difficult to know how to change things.

Therapy can help you understand what is keeping anxiety going and respond differently when it shows up, so it has less say over how you live.

understanding anxiety

What is Anxiety?

Anxiety is one of the ways your mind and body try to protect you. It helps you notice possible threats, prepare for challenges and respond when something feels uncertain, risky or demanding.

The difficulty is that this protective response can remain active when there is no immediate danger. Everyday situations may begin to feel more threatening or urgent, while your mind keeps scanning for problems, replaying what has happened or trying to solve things that cannot be fully worked out in advance.

When this happens regularly, anxiety can take up more of your time, attention and energy than you want it to. Therapy can help you understand why this is happening and find new ways to respond, so you have more choice in what you do next.

Stress and anxiety can feel very similar, but they aren’t quite the same.

Stress is usually connected to something you’re dealing with now, such as work demands, relationship difficulties, health concerns, money worries or an important conversation. Anxiety more often looks ahead, keeping you focused on what might happen or what could go wrong.

Both can leave you tense, restless, unable to switch off or struggling with sleep and concentration. They can also feed into one another: ongoing stress can keep your mind and body on alert, while anxiety can make everyday pressures feel harder to manage.

Therapy can help you understand what is driving both, respond differently when they show up and feel more able to handle the demands in front of you.

Anxious and exhausted

Anxiety can be exhausting, even when you appear to be coping. Your mind may spend much of the day scanning for problems, replaying conversations, preparing for what might go wrong or trying to stay one step ahead.

All that mental work uses energy. Over time, it can affect your sleep, concentration, memory, patience and ability to feel present. You may feel constantly tired while still finding it difficult to switch off.

Therapy can help you understand what is keeping anxiety active and learn ways to respond that demand less of your time and energy, leaving more of both for the rest of your life.

When does anxiety become a problem?

There isn’t a single point at which anxiety becomes a problem. What matters is how often it shows up, how much distress it causes and how much influence it has over your life.

You might notice yourself:

Avoiding situations, opportunities, conversations, or decisions because they feel too uncomfortable.
Spending a lot of time worrying, replaying conversations or asking others for reassurance.
Feeling tense, restless, panicky or physically on alert.
Struggling to sleep, concentrate, make decisions or feel present.
Staying constantly busy, over-preparing or trying to control every possible outcome.
Feeling as though your life has become smaller, more restricted or harder to enjoy.

If anxiety is taking up more of your life than you want it to, therapy can help you understand what is happening and begin changing how you respond.

integrative therapy and hypnotherapy for anxiety

Working with anxiety, not against yourself

Therapy for anxiety isn’t about removing every anxious thought or making sure you always feel calm. We begin by understanding what is keeping anxiety active for you, then use approaches chosen for what you need.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps you respond differently to anxious thoughts and feelings, so they have less control over what you do. Rather than waiting for anxiety to disappear, you learn how to take action while making room for some discomfort.

Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy (CBH) uses focused attention, imagery, suggestion and mental rehearsal to help you practise new responses to situations that currently feel difficult. This may include conversations, social situations, public speaking or moments of pressure.

Mindfulness helps you notice when anxiety is pulling you into worry, overthinking or predictions about what might happen. It gives you a chance to pause, settle and decide how you want to respond.

Life Beyond Anxiety

How we work together

therapy for anxiety in warwickshire + online

book a free consultation

A relaxed 30-minute call to tell me a little about what has brought you to therapy and what you’re hoping to change. You can ask questions and find out what the next steps would involve.

in-depth assessment

Your first full session is 90 minutes. We explore what you’ve been experiencing, the relevant parts of your history, how things are affecting your life and what you would like therapy to help you change.

a personalised plan

After your assessment, we agree what you would like to focus on and how we’ll work together. This gives our work direction while allowing us to review and adapt the plan as things change.

sessions to fit your life

We can meet online or in person in North Warwickshire, within easy reach of Tamworth, Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Burton upon Trent. Between sessions, your private space in the Your Mind Works app keeps your practices, audios and resources together and easy to return to.

Your Personalised Plan

What therapy can help change

Your plan will focus on how anxiety is affecting your life and what you would like to be different. Depending on what you need, therapy can help you:

Feel more confident in meetings, presentations, social situations or difficult conversations.
Make decisions based on what you want, rather than only on what feels safest.
Spend less time replaying conversations, overthinking or treating anxious thoughts as facts.
Take steps you have been putting off without waiting until you feel completely ready.
Handle uncertainty without needing as much reassurance from other people.

Kind Words

Understanding more about myself and knowing that my mind is just doing things that normal minds do has helped me a lot. I’m now much more patient with myself and know what to do when I start to feel anxious. It’s helped me make sense of so many things. I realised I had more ability to cope than I thought, but I needed help learning how to use those skills in the situations I needed them most. I feel much more confident, and learning self-hypnosis has been really helpful.

I felt really supported throughout and you explained everything really thoroughly and really clearly. I have definitely achieved what I wanted to, with a difference in my ability to relax and to be less worried about things. The biggest change for me is having the courage to be more assertive. I have found therapy has just helped massively. All the different aspects, working step-by-step to get a solution, getting clarity on my thoughts, the audios are just brilliant and the relaxation exercises have all been hugely beneficial too. I always felt very relaxed, comfortable and confident. Safe in your hands. Thank you. It has been amazing. I would absolutely recommend Lucy.

This was the first time I’ve experienced hypnotherapy, and it was different to what I expected, although I wasn’t quite sure what to expect to be honest! I have been anxious a lot lately, and holding a lot of tension I wasn’t even aware of. I have learnt a lot about relaxation, using my imagination and how to stop struggling with thoughts. When I’m in hypnosis, it’s so relaxing. Your voice is very rhythmical and soothing, which is lovely.

I was intrigued about hypnotherapy and have found it really interesting, and have learnt a lot of new things. Lucy makes you feel comfortable and at ease. Understanding how my mind and body are connected has been more enlightening than weeks of CBT I’ve had in the past! Wow!

Lucy is very knowledgeable but she is also very calming and super friendly which helps you to feel at ease. Along with Lucy’s guidance and advice it’s given me more confidence and the clarity I needed on how to move forward with my business and also personally. Thank you so much. If you are thinking of working with Lucy you won’t be disappointed.

A six-session programme gives us time to understand how anxiety is affecting you, identify what is keeping it going and begin making changes that extend beyond the therapy room.

Your programme includes:

Session 1: In-depth assessment - 90 mins

We explore what has been happening, how anxiety is affecting your life and what you would like to change. This gives us a clear understanding of where to focus our work.

Sessions 2 - 6 - 60 mins each

We focus on what will help you most, building and practising ways to respond differently to anxious thoughts, feelings and situations. We’ll review what is changing as we go and adapt our work when needed.

Your programme also includes

A free 30-minute consultation
Sessions online or in person
Your own private space inside the Your Mind Works app
Personalised audios, exercises and resources for between sessions
Six months’ access to The Membership

six session programme: £600

This includes your 90-minute assessment followed by five 60-minute sessions. You can pay in full or in two payments of £300.

Booked individually, the same sessions would cost £750, so the programme saves you £150.

Prefer to book session by session?
A 90-minute assessment costs £150 and subsequent 60-minute therapy sessions cost £120 each.

your mind works app

You’ll have your own private space inside the Your Mind Works app, where your personalised resources, guided audios, exercises, journal prompts and practices are kept together and easy to find.

Between sessions, you can return to the ideas we’ve discussed, practise new skills and listen to any audios I’ve chosen or created for you. If it’s helpful, you can also share reflections before we meet, allowing us to use our session time more effectively.

The app is there to support the work we’re doing, not give you more to keep up with. Use what helps, when it helps.

You’ll also receive six months’ access to The Membership, with live member sessions, the growing Practice Library and more ways to look after your wellbeing and keep growing.

The Your Mind Works app showing personalised therapy resources and guided audios

Your Mind Works web-based app is available on all your devices. There’s nothing to download from an app store.

Lucy Mundy

Your Mind Works

MSc, BSc (Hons) Psychology, HDipCBH, DipSMRB, GMBPsS, MNCIP (reg)

psychologist, integrative psychotherapist + coach

Psychology has been at the heart of my work for more than 25 years, helping people understand themselves, feel better and make changes that matter in their lives.

My approach is warm, engaging and down to earth. I’ll help you make sense of how anxiety is working in your mind and body, explain why some of the things that bring temporary relief can keep it going, and give you plenty of space to talk things through and ask questions.

We’ll practise new ways of responding together during sessions, and you’ll try them for yourself between sessions, so you can become confident using them when anxiety shows up. The aim isn’t for you to need therapy forever. It’s for you to understand yourself better, feel more able to handle what life brings and leave with skills you can continue using long after our sessions end.

Does hypnotherapy for anxiety work?

Hypnotherapy can be helpful for anxiety when it is used as part of a wider therapeutic approach rather than as a standalone technique.

In Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy, we first understand what is keeping anxiety going. Hypnosis, imagery, suggestion and mental rehearsal can then help you focus your attention and practise different ways of responding.

Can therapy help with overthinking and worry?

Yes. Therapy can help you understand why your mind keeps replaying conversations, searching for certainty or preparing for every possible outcome.

Rather than trying to force yourself to stop thinking, you can learn how to respond differently to worry and feel more able to handle uncertainty.

Can therapy help with physical anxiety symptoms?

Anxiety can affect the body as well as the mind, causing tension, restlessness, digestive discomfort, headaches, disturbed sleep or panic-like sensations.

Therapy can help you understand why these sensations happen, feel less alarmed by them and learn ways to respond when they appear. New, severe or concerning physical symptoms should also be discussed with your GP.

Is hypnotherapy safe?

During Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy, you remain aware and involved throughout. Hypnosis doesn’t make you unconscious or take away your control, and you can speak, move, pause or stop at any time.

Hypnotherapy is suitable for many people, but not everyone. Before we begin, we’ll discuss your health, what you’re experiencing and whether it would be an appropriate approach for you.

What if I have tried therapy before and it didn’t help?

It makes sense to feel cautious about trying again. Previous therapy may not have used an approach, focus or pace that worked for you at that time.

My approach includes clear psychological explanations, active skills practice and ways to continue between sessions. Your consultation gives you a chance to ask questions and understand how we would work before deciding whether to continue.

Do you offer anxiety therapy online and in Warwickshire?

Yes. Online anxiety therapy is available across the UK, allowing you to join from a private space at home.

In-person sessions are available in North Warwickshire, within easy reach of Tamworth, Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Burton upon Trent.

How many sessions will I need and what does anxiety therapy cost?

Most people begin with six sessions: a 90-minute in-depth assessment followed by five 60-minute sessions. The programme costs £600, payable in full or in two payments of £300.

Some people may benefit from further sessions, depending on what they need. We’ll discuss this before beginning and review it together as we go.

What if I’m not sure my anxiety is bad enough for therapy?

You don’t need to wait until anxiety feels unbearable before asking for help.

If it is affecting your sleep, confidence, decisions, relationships, work or the things you feel able to do, it is reasonable to take it seriously. A free 30-minute consultation gives us a chance to talk about what is happening and what you would like to change.

The first step is a conversation.

A free 30-minute consultation gives us a chance to talk about what has brought you to therapy and what you would like to change. You can ask questions, find out more about how I work and discuss what the next steps could look like.

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