What I help with
Anxiety and panic held in the body
You know you're safe. Your body doesn't seem to agree. The racing heart before a phone call, the knot in your stomach, the tight chest in a meeting, the jolt awake at 3am in full thought. Or the panic attack that arrives out of nowhere and convinces you something is badly wrong.
Maybe you've already done a lot of work on it. You can trace where it started. Maybe you feel anxious for no reason at all, with no idea why you're 'triggered'. You might know the techniques, you might not. Either way, it still fires.
Does this sound like you?
- Panic attacks that come out of nowhere
- A racing heart before a phone call or a meeting
- Waking at 3am with your mind already running
- Anxiety for no reason you can name
- Knowing exactly why, and it still fires
- Planning your day around not feeling like this
If you nodded at even one of these, you're in the right place.
Why understanding hasn't switched it off
Anxiety isn't a thinking problem. It's the nervous system still responding to something that happened, as if it's happening now. Even if you have no idea what that is.
Insight works at the level of the story. The activation lives underneath it, in the brain and sometimes presents itself in the body. That's why you can understand it completely and still feel it every day.
How I work with anxiety
Sessions begin with Havening Techniques®, a gentle psychosensory method that uses your own touch, the first way any of us learned we were safe, to bring the system out of alarm. From there, I use Jentle Soma, my own advanced psychosensory work, to resolve the activation that keeps the anxiety running.
You don't have to retell anything. You don't have to push through anything. Alongside the deeper work, you'll learn simple ways to steady or 'regulate' your system between sessions. These aren't long-term management steps. They're support while the clearing work unfolds.
What can change
Clients don't often describe a dramatic shift, though some do. Often they describe a settling. The moment they notice the thing that used to fire quietly didn't. A space in time or inside where that might have fired something, and now it's just me.
Reactions that once felt automatic begin to subside. The space before the response is where choice lives. Clearing the response from the system is a way to be yourself.
Before and after
Before
Your heart is going before you've even opened the email. You brace, overthink it, then replay the whole thing again in bed.
After
The email arrives. You read it and deal with it. Your evening is still yours, and so is your sleep.
Questions people ask about anxiety
Why do I feel anxious for no reason?
There usually is a reason, it just isn't one you can see. Your nervous system can still be responding to something from the past, so the alarm goes off without anything in the present to explain it. That's why it can feel random, and why thinking your way out of it rarely works.
How do I get my body out of anxiety mode?
In the moment, slow breathing and gentle, steadying touch can help your system settle, and I'll teach you simple ways to do this. Getting out of anxiety mode for good is different. It means resolving what keeps setting the alarm off, and that's the deeper work we do in sessions.
Why can I feel anxiety in my whole body?
Because anxiety is a body response before it's a thought. Your heart, breathing, muscles and gut all get ready for a threat. When that response is stuck on, you feel it everywhere.
What happens in a session?
You stay seated, clothed and in control. We talk briefly about what's going on, then use Havening Techniques® and Jentle Soma to work with the activation. The touch is always your own hands, gentle and at your pace, and I do it alongside you. Online, you use your own hands. You don't need to retell your history. Sessions are 90 minutes.
Is this right for you?
This is for people who are tired of managing their anxiety rather than resolving it.
If you're in crisis right now, please contact your GP, NHS 111 or the Samaritans on 116 123 first.
Sessions are 90 minutes, in person in Walton-on-Thames or online by Zoom wherever you are in the world. Fees and booking →
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