CBT for GAD
Overcome Anxiety & Worry
Straight-Talking Therapy for Professionals
CBT for GAD
Is your brain stuck in disaster mode? Always worrying about everything going wrong and creating worst-case scenarios in your mind? Your worries can be so persuasive, convincing you they are valid and true, convincing you to act.
If you’re fed up of being constantly anxious and exhausted, CBT for GAD can help. You know the worry isn’t helpful, but you don’t know how to stop it. That’s where I come in.
I’m a Straight-Talking Therapist, and I specialise in helping anxious and stressed high achievers.
I’ll help you to learn how to break the worry cycle & improve your confidence for good.
GAD Therapy
CBT for GAD will help you to:
- Gain insight to the root of your worries
- Break free from constant worry
- Gain confidence with decision making
- Cope better with uncertainty
- Release the need for control
- Reduce the physical symptoms of anxiety
- Stop the excessive checking, researching and overplanning
Let’s get started!
What is GAD?
Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is the label we give to constantly worrying about everything, and when I say everything, I really mean it. Over the years, the focus of your worries might shift around, but one thing is consistent – it’s always worst-case scenarios. Your brain is trapped in disaster mode, always trying to be 10 steps ahead. It never switches off, and it’s exhausting, frustrating and honestly, no fun at all.
Your worries act like a scam, they are very convincing, and it’s easy to get pulled in. But most of the things our brain suggests we need to worry about, we really don’t need to. The job of CBT Therapy is to teach you how to break free from the stuck cycle, to teach you how to prevent being scammed by your mind.
Worry About Everything
You’re buried in “what if….”s, a never-ending list of scenarios your brain is suggesting you should worry about. Here are some common examples:
- What if I’ve made a mistake?
- What if I’m late?
- What if I get sacked?
- What if no-one likes me?
- What if I’ ve forgotten something important?
- What if I don’t have something I need?
- What if I get lost?
- What if I don ’t get it finished on time?
- What if I have an accident?
- What if I die?
- What if I make the wrong decision?
- What if it’ s cancer?
- What if there’s a terrorist attack?
- What if I catch something?
- What if it all goes wrong?
Quite a list, right? Not surprising then that you often feel exhausted.
GAD Treatment
GAD Treatment focuses on learning how to stop being persuaded by our worries, and stop acting as if they are true. Every day our brain gives us ‘suggestions’, things for us to consider. Sometimes these are helpful suggestions, but a lot of time they are irrelevant, unhelpful and have zero basis. But with anxiety thrown in the mix, we can accidentally see all these suggestions as warnings that we need to listen to.
Our response to these ‘warnings’ is to try to plan, prevent, prepare, problem solve, or avoid.
How many of these behaviours sound familiar?
Plan
- Making detailed plans
- Create to do lists
- Backup plans
- Avoiding spontaneous activities
- Sticking to routines
Prepare
- Researching things
- Seeking reassurance from others
- Asking other’s opinions
- Reading reviews
- Practice runs
Prevent
- Double/triple checking things
- Give warnings to loved ones
- Tracking loved ones
- Monitoring your health
- Avoiding delegating
- Excessive control/taking over
- Re-doing tasks
Avoid
- Situations of uncertainty
- Situations outside your control
- Situations that are new
- Decision making
- Triggering content for worries
Problem Solve
- Plan solutions to the hypothetical
- Scenarios
- Imagine what you would do
- Rehearse in your head
Can you see yourself in lots of these? CBT for GAD can really help with not just the worrying but also all these things we do because the worries have persuaded us.
I’m ready to get started!
GAD Therapist
As a Therapist experienced in working with GAD, I can help you to overcome your Anxiety and Fear.
Through therapy we will look at new ways to deal with thoughts, and how to break free from stuck habits of coping. Worry isn’t who you are, it’s just what you’re used to doing.
I’m a bit different from your average therapist. I offer a straight-talking approach to therapy. This ensures that you really get what’s going on, why, and how to fix it. No endless talking about the past, but instead a focus on making changes to move forwards.
GAD at Work
Worry can impact every area of our lives – worry about health, worry about relationships, worry socially, worry about day-to-day things, and worry about work.
So what does worry at work look like?
- Difficulty making decisions
- Stuck in procrastination cycles
- Checking and re-checking tasks
- Excessive research & planning before doing
- Difficulty delegating
- Taking over control/responsibility and much more.
Private CBT Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) has at it’s basis an educational approach. Therapy sessions will help you to better make sense of what’s going on for you and why. They will also teach you scientifically proven ways to change our unhelpful thoughts (cognitions) and ways of coping (behaviours).
Through Private CBT Therapy, I will work with you to create a personalised treatment plan to overcome your anxiety.
Next steps
Discovery Call
We start with a free 15-minute discovery call to see if we’re the right fit.
Tailored Treatment Plan
I create a personalised CBT treatment strategy based on your challenges and goals.
Actionable Tools & Support
We work together to break unhelpful patterns and build resilience.
Long-Term Confidence
By the end, you’ll have a practical blueprint for managing your low self-esteem
Ready to Get Started?
