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Panic Attack Therapy for Panic Disorder
Breaking the Panic Cycle with Compassionate, Evidence-Based Therapy
Panic attacks can feel sudden, intense, and frightening, often arriving without warning and leaving you worried about when the next one might happen. The physical sensations can be overwhelming, and many people begin to avoid situations for fear of triggering another attack.
Panic disorder therapy at Wyke Therapy uses evidence-based approaches, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and EMDR, to help you understand what’s happening in your body and mind during panic. Together, we work to reduce fear of symptoms, break the panic cycle, and restore a sense of control.
Therapy is offered online, providing a safe and supportive space where you can work at your own pace to build confidence, reduce anxiety, and feel more able to engage fully in daily life.
Book a 15 minute consultation to see how I can help.
Panic Attack Therapy
Panic attacks can feel overwhelming, frightening, and completely out of the blue. Many people describe a sudden rush of intense fear, physical symptoms such as a racing heart, tight chest, dizziness, or shortness of breath, and the sense that something is seriously wrong.
If you are living with panic attacks or panic disorder, you are not weak. Your nervous system may have become caught in a cycle of threat and alarm. At Wyke Therapy, panic attack therapy is offered online using evidence-based approaches including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and EMDR.
Understand Panic
Therapy helps you understand what is happening in your mind and body during a panic attack, so the experience can begin to feel less frightening and more manageable.
Break the Cycle
Panic often continues through a cycle of fearful thoughts, physical sensations, and avoidance. Together, we look at how this cycle works for you and how it can be gently interrupted.
Build Confidence
The aim is to help you feel less afraid of your own body and mind, rebuild trust in yourself, and regain confidence in situations that may currently feel difficult.
How Therapy Can Help with Panic Attacks
Panic attacks can feel dangerous, even when they are not harmful. This is often because the physical sensations of panic are misread as signs of something terrible happening. You may start to fear the symptoms themselves, which can make future panic attacks more likely.
Panic attack therapy helps you understand this pattern and develop practical ways to respond differently. Rather than fighting panic or avoiding situations completely, therapy gives you tools to approach the experience with more confidence, clarity, and control.
Through panic attack therapy, you can learn to:
- Understand what is happening during a panic attack.
- Recognise the thoughts and sensations that keep panic going.
- Challenge catastrophic thoughts such as “I’m going to faint” or “Something terrible is happening”.
- Reduce fear of physical sensations such as a racing heart, dizziness, or breathlessness.
- Gradually face situations you may have been avoiding.
- Rebuild confidence and feel more in control in everyday life.
CBT for Panic Attacks
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, often known as CBT, is a well-established approach for panic attacks and panic disorder. CBT looks at the relationship between your thoughts, feelings, physical sensations, and behaviours, helping you understand why panic happens and what keeps it going.
In CBT for panic attacks, we may explore the thoughts that appear during moments of fear, the way you respond to physical sensations, and any avoidance or safety behaviours that have developed over time. This can help reduce the fear of panic itself and make symptoms feel less overwhelming.
EMDR for Panic Attacks
EMDR can be helpful when panic attacks are connected to past experiences, trauma, or distressing memories. Sometimes the body responds to present-day situations as though an old threat is still happening.
EMDR offers a structured way to process these experiences safely, helping to reduce the emotional intensity attached to them and ease panic responses in the present.
Online Therapy for Panic Attacks
Online panic attack therapy allows you to access support from the comfort and privacy of your own space. This can be especially helpful if travelling, sitting in a waiting room, or attending appointments in person feels difficult.
Sessions are held online, giving you flexible, accessible support from anywhere in the UK, while still providing a calm and focused therapeutic space.
Living with Panic Disorder
When panic attacks happen repeatedly, you may begin to worry about when the next one will happen. This fear can affect your routines, relationships, work, travel, and social life. Some people begin avoiding places or situations where they worry panic may occur, which can make life feel increasingly restricted.
Therapy can help you step out of this pattern. Whether panic attacks are a recent experience or something you have lived with for years, support can help you feel safer in your body, more confident in your responses, and less controlled by fear.
You Do Not Have to Manage Panic Alone
Panic attacks can be frightening, but they are treatable. With the right support, you can understand what is happening, reduce the fear around panic, and begin to feel more in control again.
Take the first step today. Book a free 15-minute consultation to see how I can help.
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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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.