3. CBT Therapy for Health Anxiety

CBT Therapy for Health Anxiety

Health Anxiety and CBT Therapy 


Health anxiety used to be known as hypochondriasis.  If you have health anxiety, it means you misinterpret usual bodily symptoms and become convinced that you have a critical or life-threatening illness.  CBT Therapy will help you to understand your triggers and to get a balance between your beliefs and thoughts. CBT Thearpy can help you with your health anxiety

 

Are you struggling with health anxiety?

It’s time to get help when:

  • You are very anxious and often scared about the state of your health
  • You’re a frequent visitor to your GP
  • You are developing coping behaviours to deal with your feelings, such as avoiding hospitals and medical issues, or obsessing about them, researching them online and making appointments that you don’t need

CBT and health anxiety


With CBT treatment for health anxiety, you’ll learn to monitor and understand the triggers to your anxiety, how it makes you feel and how it makes you act.  You’ll be encouraged to reduce coping mechanisms and reassurance behaviours, as well as to be able to balance anxiety-provoking beliefs and thoughts so you can be more balanced and compassionate with yourself.

There is now a strong evidence base supporting the fact that CBT is an effective treatment for long-term and persistent health anxiety.

Seeing a CBT Health therapist can enable you to understand your triggers


How can I make an appointment to see a CBT Therapist?


To make an appointment for CBT for Health Anxiety, please give us a call now on 020 3795 8718, request a call back here or send us a message here.