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Online Anxiety Therapy
Find Calm, Confidence, and Clarity
Anxiety can make even simple moments feel overwhelming – racing thoughts, tension, and a constant sense of unease. Online CBT for anxiety can help you break free from the cycle of worry and rediscover balance. At Wyke Therapy, sessions are warm, evidence-based, and tailored to your needs, so you can start feeling more in control again.
Therapy for General, Health and Social Anxiety
Anxiety can feel overwhelming. You might experience racing thoughts, tension, poor sleep, irritability, physical symptoms, or a constant sense that something might go wrong. It can affect your confidence, relationships, work, health worries, and ability to relax.
At Wyke Therapy, online CBT for anxiety is offered to help you understand what is maintaining the worry and build practical tools to feel calmer and more in control. Sessions are warm, structured, confidential, and tailored to you.
Understand Anxiety
Therapy helps you understand the thoughts, feelings, physical sensations, and behaviours that keep anxiety going, so the pattern begins to feel clearer and more manageable.
Reduce Worry Loops
CBT can help you recognise rumination, reassurance seeking, checking, avoidance, and overthinking, then build more helpful ways to respond.
Build Confidence
The aim is to help you feel more able to cope with uncertainty, face situations you may have been avoiding, and regain a stronger sense of control.
Is This Right for You?
Online therapy can be a good fit if anxiety is affecting your day-to-day life, relationships, sleep, confidence, or ability to feel present. You do not need to have a formal diagnosis to start therapy. The free consultation gives you space to talk things through and see whether CBT feels like the right next step.
This may be a good fit if you:
- Feel caught in constant worry, overthinking, or rumination.
- Struggle to switch off, relax, or sleep well.
- Avoid situations because of fear, embarrassment, or uncertainty.
- Notice physical anxiety symptoms such as tension, restlessness, or a racing heart.
- Regularly check, research, or seek reassurance to feel safe.
- Feel anxious in social situations, health-related situations, or everyday responsibilities.
Understanding Anxiety
Everyone feels anxious at times, but when worry becomes constant or starts interfering with everyday life, it may become harder to manage alone. Anxiety can show up as restlessness, difficulty concentrating, muscle tension, poor sleep, irritability, panic sensations, or a constant sense of dread.
Anxiety is often maintained by a cycle of anxious thoughts, uncomfortable physical sensations, and behaviours that bring short-term relief but keep the fear going in the long term. This might include avoidance, reassurance seeking, over-preparing, checking symptoms, or mentally replaying conversations.
Through CBT for anxiety, you learn to recognise these patterns, challenge unhelpful beliefs, and develop practical strategies that help you respond differently, even when life feels stressful.
Generalised Anxiety
Generalised Anxiety Disorder, often known as GAD, involves persistent and excessive worry about everyday situations such as work, health, finances, family, or the future. This constant worry can make it hard to relax, focus, or feel present.
CBT for GAD can help you identify worry triggers, reduce rumination, build tolerance for uncertainty, and develop practical ways to manage anxious thinking.
Social Anxiety
Social anxiety is the fear of being judged, embarrassed, rejected, or scrutinised in social or performance situations. It can affect meetings, friendships, dating, public events, and everyday interactions.
CBT for social anxiety helps you reduce self-focused attention, challenge anxious predictions, reduce safety behaviours, and build confidence through gradual, supported practice.
Health Anxiety
Health anxiety is the persistent fear of having or developing a serious illness, even when medical reassurance has been given. Normal sensations, such as a headache, flutter in the chest, or tight throat, can quickly spiral into catastrophic thoughts.
Checking, Googling symptoms, and seeking reassurance may bring short-term relief, but often make anxiety stronger over time. CBT for health anxiety helps you understand this cycle, respond differently to bodily sensations, and reduce checking or avoidance so your mind can begin to settle.
How CBT Helps With Anxiety
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, often known as CBT, is a structured and evidence-based approach that focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, physical sensations, and behaviours. It helps you understand what keeps anxiety going and what can be changed.
CBT is not about telling yourself everything is fine or forcing positive thinking. It is about learning how anxiety works, testing anxious predictions, reducing unhelpful safety behaviours, and building practical tools that support long-term confidence.
- Identify worry loops, anxious predictions, and unhelpful thinking patterns.
- Understand physical anxiety symptoms and how to respond to them.
- Reduce avoidance, checking, reassurance seeking, and safety behaviours.
- Build tolerance for uncertainty and discomfort.
- Develop practical coping strategies you can use between sessions.
- Gradually rebuild confidence in situations that currently feel difficult.
Why Choose Online Therapy?
Online therapy allows you to access support from home or any private space in the UK. For many people, this makes sessions feel more comfortable, accessible, and easier to fit around daily life.
Therapist-supported online CBT can be a highly practical way to work on anxiety, especially if travel, appointments, or unfamiliar environments feel difficult.
Why Work With Wyke Therapy?
Michelle offers evidence-based CBT with warmth, clarity, and empathy. Sessions are structured but collaborative, giving you practical tools while moving at a pace that feels manageable.
Therapy is confidential, fully online, and tailored to your goals, whether you are dealing with general anxiety, social anxiety, health anxiety, panic, or overlapping difficulties.
How Treatment Works
Treatment begins with a free 15-minute consultation, giving you the chance to discuss what you are dealing with and whether CBT feels like the right fit. From there, sessions focus on understanding your anxiety and developing practical tools to help you move forward.
Free Consultation
A short call to understand what you are dealing with and whether online CBT may be suitable.
Understanding Anxiety
We identify the thoughts, feelings, sensations, and behaviours that may be maintaining anxiety.
Skills and Strategies
You learn practical tools to challenge anxious thinking, reduce avoidance, and manage worry.
Building Confidence
We create a plan to maintain progress so anxiety no longer feels like it is running the show.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CBT effective for anxiety?
Yes. CBT is one of the most widely used evidence-based approaches for anxiety disorders. It focuses on what maintains anxiety in the present and helps you develop skills to respond differently to worry, fear, and avoidance.
Do I need to know what type of anxiety I have?
No. You do not need a diagnosis to begin therapy. The consultation and early sessions can help clarify what you are experiencing and whether CBT is the right approach for your needs.
Do I have to talk about everything that makes me anxious?
No. Therapy moves at your pace. We focus on understanding patterns and building tools, without pushing you to share anything before you feel ready.
How long will it take to feel better?
Everyone is different. Many people notice progress within the first few weeks, especially when sessions are consistent and you practise small steps between appointments. The number of sessions depends on your goals and what you are working through.
Is online therapy secure?
Yes. Sessions are confidential and delivered through secure online systems, allowing you to access therapy safely from home or another private space.
Ready to Take the First Step?
If anxiety has been affecting your confidence, sleep, relationships, or quality of life, you do not have to keep coping alone.
Book a free 15-minute consultation to ask questions, talk through what is going on, and see whether online CBT feels like the right support.
Why online therapy might work for you
Online therapy is just as effective as in-person sessions, allowing you to receive high-quality support wherever you are. Some additional benefits include:
- Not having to face the difficulties of travelling to a location if you have health issues or disabilities.
- It takes less time to fit in a session if you have a lack of spare hours in the day and a busy lifestyle.
- You won’t have any transport issues or need to pay for parking.
- Flexibility to work around your work hours and other commitments.
How the booking process works
- Get in touch via email or phone
- We’ll agree a good time for your free 15-minute online consultation
- I’ll send you a link for your phone or via MS Teams, whichever you prefer
- We ‘meet up’ online on the day and time agreed
- If you are happy to proceed, we’ll book your first appointment
- 24 hours before your appointment, I’ll send you a payment link or you can pay via the website here
- Our therapy sessions begin!
NICE Guidelines
All of the therapy techniques I use, including EMDR and CBT, are recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines. You can find out more about the framework I work within here.
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How to Contact Me
I offer a free 15-minute consultation to help you decide if my therapy style is right for you.
Please note: I do not provide crisis intervention. If you are in immediate distress, please contact your GP or emergency services.