Our Frequently Asked Questions
The Anxiety Specialist offers completely different approach to mental health and wellbeing because it offers training that helps you to learn about you! During sessions, you will develop a deep understanding about yourself, your beliefs, your psychological foundations and thinking styles which cause and maintain your symptoms.
Once you have that insight, it can be very easy to think differently, change old patterns of behaviour and take back control. When you understand yourself and your mental health, it becomes much easier to be resilient, to stay happy, healthy, be successful and to achieve your goals.
Abi Twomlow originally trained as a teacher and worked with young people from the ages of 4 – 14 for a decade. This meant that she developed the skills to communicate new concepts and understanding at a range of levels. Abi then retrained in Psychology after seeing so many pupils, friends and colleagues struggling with mental health and not seeking or receiving the support that they needed.
After struggling with anxiety and depression herself, Abi undertook a course of Psychotherapy and trained to become a mental health consultant working with adults, children, businesses and schools before setting up The Anxiety Specialist independently.
The structured, easy to follow sessions allow you to understand:
What makes you tick, what unhelpful beliefs you may have, and the specific ‘thinking styles’ you have developed.
Discover the psychological foundations that dictate how you view and respond to the events and experiences in your life.
How much power you believe you have to make changes in your life and how in control you feel.
How your self-esteem can be changed in just two weeks, and the huge knock-on effect this will have upon you.
How YOU create anxiety, stress and fears – and how to get rid of them.
How your desire for control means you avoid many situations in life and create more anxiety.
How different this course is to any other, and why it works where others fail.
How superstitions, magical beliefs, and fate, luck and chance type beliefs affect your life.
How you can overcome just about any situation in life with confidence in your ability to cope
Anyone! Adults, teenagers, schools and businesses have all successfully completed courses to make big changes.
Schools and businesses of all sizes are suitable if they want to learn about mental health, how issues develop and how to promote positive mental health for employees and pupils
Most people need between 4 -7 weekly sessions to learn all of the components of long-lasting mental wellbeing. Occasionally, some people may need an extra session but this is unusual if you are putting the effort required.
Schools and business courses are tailored to meet specific needs whether than be full staff, management, group or one to one support. The Anxiety Specialist offers a wide range of options to fit your requirements so please get in touch to find out more.
That is down to you! If you are prepared to put in the effort, there is no reason that you won’t succeed in your symptoms being significantly or completely reduced.
Anxiety courses are not a magical quick fix and therefore won’t work for anyone who isn’t willing to take up the task of applying the learning into their daily life
Individual sessions are £85 and last for between 60-90 minutes.
Most people need between 3-7 sessions.
Group sessions vary depending on size and content. Please get in touch to arrange a chat to find out more or visit https://anxietyspecialist.org/our-fees/ for more info
Schools and business costs are given after a free consultation to assess your requirements.
You need to engage and interact in the sessions, be as open and honest as you can.
After each session, you will be given some practical activities to put into action and maybe some challenges to think about or look into, nothing out of your comfort zone or difficult.
There will be a few quizzes and tasks to complete that will be used to measure your progress and set goals to move forward.
The Anxiety Specilaist approach is entirely different from techniques such as NLP or CBT because 90% of it’s success lays in YOUR understanding of your thinking and beliefs that are creating the issues.
If you are not able to understand or alter the driving forces behind your anxiety, symptoms or unhelpful beliefs, it can feel as though you are treading water or fire-fighting, working hard trying to keep negative thoughts and feelings at bay.
These methods mainly deal with controlling negative thoughts rather than significantly altering the beliefs that are causing these thoughts in the first place. So why spend time fighting off negative thoughts and feelings when you can learn not to create them in the first place?