Evidence-based treatment for generalised anxiety disorder and chronic worry.
About This Service
Your mind never seems to switch off. The worry feels necessary. like if you stop, something terrible will happen…
It doesn’t have to be this way.
Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is not the same as being a worrier. It is a persistent, pervasive state of anxiety that touches almost every area of life – health, relationships, work, family, finances, the future. You find yourself rotating through concerns without relief, and creating an exhausting sense that something is always wrong, or about to go wrong.
For many women, this constant internal hum of worry has been so familiar for so long that they no longer recognise it as a disorder. Instead, they assume it is just who they are. In India, where women are often expected to be the household’s emotional barometer and primary worrier, chronic anxiety is frequently normalised, even celebrated as conscientiousness or devotion.
This therapy is for women whose anxiety is no longer serving a purpose. If your worrying is disproportionate to the event that caused it, it is difficult to control, and causing you physical and emotional exhaustion, then you deserve more than just trying to manage your anxiety. You deserve to understand it and reduce it.
Symptoms and Concerns We Address
What GAD (Generalised Anxiety Disorder) looks and feels like
CHRONIC WORRY
Experiencing persistent, difficult-to-control worry about multiple areas of life simultaneously – work, health, family, money, the future
CATASTROPHIC THINKING
Automatically jumping to worst-case scenarios and finding it almost impossible to believe and rest thinking of the more likely positive outcomes
PHYSICAL TENSION
Tight shoulders, jaw clenching, headaches, stomach problems, or a body that never fully relaxes – even when nothing is visibly wrong with you or around you
SLEEP DIFFICULTIES
Lying awake with a mind that will not stop, waking with anxiety, or dreading the next morning before it has arrived
IRRITABILITY AND RESTLESSNESS
A short fuse, difficulty settling, or a constant low-level agitation that is hard to explain to others
DIFFICULTY CONCENTRATING
A mind pulled in many directions at once, unable to focus, easily distracted, or finding it hard to be present in any single moment
SEEKING REASSURANCE
Repeatedly checking with others, googling symptoms, or needing to be told everything will be fine – and then the relief lasts only briefly before the anxiety returns
AVOIDANCE OF UNCERTAINTY
Difficulty tolerating not-knowing something which leads to excessive planning, over-preparing, or avoiding situations that cannot be fully controlled
Our Therapeutic Approach
Understanding the anxiety engine in your brain, and then learning to lower its speed
- Psycho-education about anxiety
Understanding how anxiety works is foundational. Learning about the threat detection system in the mind and body that overestimates danger and the role of our avoidance, helps beat the anxiety. Many women find that simply understanding the mechanism reduces the fear of the anxiety itself. - CBT for worry and catastrophic thinking
We identify the worry patterns most central to your anxiety and work on examining them rigorously. We work on distinguishing real threats from hypothetical ones, and distinguish productive concern from unproductive rumination. - Intolerance of uncertainty work
At the core of most GAD is a deep difficulty tolerating the unknown. We work directly on building this tolerance because life cannot be made certain, but our relationship with uncertainty can genuinely change. - Relaxation and physiological regulation
We work with practical, evidence-based techniques for calming the physical anxiety response that you are stuck in. We learn progressive muscle relaxation, controlled breathing, and mindfulness practices that are simple enough to use in real life. - Reducing reassurance-seeking and avoidance
Seeking-reassurance constantly and holding onto avoidance habits, maintains your anxiety. It prevents you from discovering that you can tolerate uncertainty. We work on gradually reducing these behaviours, thereby creating new evidence that you can actually cope with uncertainty. - Addressing underlying beliefs and values
Worry is often connected to deeper beliefs about responsibility, control, or what it means to be a good person. We work on these beliefs directly because that is where lasting anxiety reduction lives.
GAD frequently co-occurs with depression, OCD, and social anxiety. Where multiple concerns are present, we address them in an integrated way rather than treating each in isolation.
What to Expect
What anxiety counselling looks like
- A first session that maps the full picture of your anxiety
We look at all the areas your worry touches and not just the presenting concern. We begin to understand the patterns that connect them. - Practical tools from the very first sessions
You will not spend weeks on understanding before receiving tools. From early on, each session will leave you with something concrete you can use before the next one. - Meaningful improvement within 12–16 sessions
GAD responds well to structured CBT-based treatment. Most women notice a significant reduction in worry frequency and intensity, improved sleep, and a calmer physical baseline within a few months of consistent work. - Skills that last well beyond the therapy
The goal is not just symptom management, it is building a genuinely different relationship with uncertainty and worry. A healthier relationshhip that sustains long after sessions end. - Online
Our sessions are available via video call which many women prefer. They find that the flexibility of online sessions reduces the logistical stress that can itself feed anxiety.
