Anxiety
For many professionals working in high-pressure environments, anxiety doesn’t always look like panic — it can appear as overthinking, restlessness, disrupted sleep, or a constant sense of being “switched on.”
It’s not a character flaw or a lack of discipline. It’s the brain trying to protect you in the only way it knows how.
What Causes Anxiety
Modern neuroscience shows that your brain is constantly constructing your experience of reality. It takes fragments of sensory data, combines them with memories from the past, and predicts what’s happening — and what to do next.
When you’ve had a frightening experience — for example, a panic attack where your heart raced so fast you thought something terrible was happening — your brain stores that event as a pattern of prediction.
Later, when your heart naturally speeds up (after coffee, exercise, or even stress), the brain recognises the pattern and predicts that the same danger is returning. That prediction alone can trigger a fresh wave of anxiety or another panic attack.
This is why panic often becomes a loop:
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The first episode is unexpected.
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The brain then predicts it will happen again.
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That very prediction creates the anxiety that fuels the next episode.
Your brain isn’t broken — it’s doing exactly what it’s designed to do: protect you. It’s just predicting the wrong thing.
How This Therapy Works
This therapy targets the root of anxiety — not through talking about it, but by changing the brain’s predictive model.
Rather than relying on slow, conscious reasoning, it works directly with the brain’s fast, automatic processes — the same ones that generate the anxious response in the first place.
Through this process, the brain updates its outdated predictions. It learns that a racing heart, or uncertainty, isn’t danger — it’s just information.
In effect, the brain learns to predict calm where it once predicted threat.
Because we’re working with the same mechanism that created the anxiety, change can happen remarkably fast. Many clients describe a profound shift within just a few sessions.
Breaking the Cycle
Most people with anxiety aren’t just afraid of the situation — they’re afraid of the feeling of fear itself.
You had one overwhelming experience, and your brain learned to stay on constant alert — expecting it to happen again. The result is exhaustion, hypervigilance, and a nervous system that never truly rests.
But this cycle can be broken.
By replicating the brain’s own learning process, this therapy helps it relearn a new, accurate prediction. We rewire the system so it stops expecting the worst and starts predicting safety.
When the brain learns to respond differently, anxiety loses its hold.
The “fear of fear” disappears — and with it, the panic cycle.
Moving Forward
If anxiety has become your default state — whether it shows up as constant overthinking, physical tension, or a sense of losing control — it doesn’t have to stay that way.
This work is designed to create calm where there was once threat, clarity where there was chaos, and confidence where there was fear.
For more information or to arrange a confidential consultation, please get in touch.