If anxiety, stress or overwhelm are starting to take over your thoughts, your body, or your day-to-day life, you’re not alone — and you don’t have to keep coping on your own.
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Many people reach out for therapy feeling constantly on edge, exhausted, or mentally overloaded. You might be managing on the outside while feeling anything but calm on the inside. Perhaps your mind won’t switch off, your body feels tense all the time, or even small things now feel overwhelming.
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Therapy can offer a space to slow things down, make sense of what’s happening for you, and begin to feel more in control again.
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When anxiety and stress start to feel too much
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Anxiety is our body’s natural response to stress or perceived danger — the familiar fight, flight or freeze response. In small doses, it’s part of being human. But when anxiety becomes constant, intense, or starts limiting how you live your life, it can feel frightening and exhausting.
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Stress often builds quietly. Work pressures, parenting, health worries, life changes, or long periods of “just getting on with it” can gradually push your nervous system into overload. Over time, this can tip into overwhelm — where everything feels like too much and there’s no space to breathe.
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People often describe experiencing:
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Racing thoughts or constant overthinking
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Feeling tense, restless, or unable to relax
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Panic symptoms such as a racing heart or breathlessness
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Poor sleep or waking already feeling anxious
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Digestive issues, headaches, or stress-related physical symptoms
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Avoiding situations that feel too much
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Feeling burnt out, irritable, or emotionally drained
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If any of this sounds familiar, therapy can help.
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How counselling and hypnotherapy can support you
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I offer psychotherapeutic counselling and, where appropriate, clinical hypnotherapy to support people experiencing anxiety, stress and overwhelm.
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Counselling gives you a calm, confidential space to talk openly about how things really feel — without judgement or pressure. Together, we can explore what’s contributing to your anxiety or stress, how it’s affecting different areas of your life, and what might help things feel more manageable again.
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Alongside talking therapy, I can also share gentle techniques to help soothe your nervous system. These can support you in calming anxious thoughts, easing physical tension, and feeling more grounded day to day.
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For some clients, clinical hypnotherapy can be a helpful addition. This is a deeply relaxing, focused way of working that can support anxiety reduction, quieten racing thoughts, and gently shift unhelpful patterns — always at your pace and with your consent.
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You don’t need to know in advance which approach is right for you. We can figure that out together.
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Therapy at your pace
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Reaching out for therapy can feel daunting — especially if you’re already feeling overwhelmed. There’s no pressure here and no expectation to talk about anything before you’re ready.
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Your sessions will be shaped around you: your experiences, your needs, and what feels safe and supportive right now.
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I can help with:
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Generalised anxiety
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Panic attacks
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Health anxiety
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Social anxiety
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Work-related stress
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Prenatal and postnatal anxiety
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Life transitions and emotional overwhelm
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Sleep difficulties
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Stress-related physical symptoms (including IBS, headaches and fatigue)
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If you’re considering therapy for anxiety or stress and would like to see whether we might be a good fit, you’re very welcome to get in touch. I offer counselling and hypnotherapy sessions online as well as in-person sessions in Essex near Dunmow and near Colchester.
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You don’t have to keep pushing through — support is available.
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