Anxiety and Stress: Supporting Your Wellbeing

About what we offer

We want to be clear. The Advertising Standards Authority holds complementary clinics to a high bar when it comes to mental health claims, and we are not going to tell you that any of our therapies treats clinical anxiety. What we can honestly offer is something different: regular, attentive care, space to be listened to, and a range of approaches that clients have found helpful for the day to day experience of stress and low level anxiety.

If you have been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, or if you think you might need a clinical assessment, we will always encourage you to speak to your GP. Complementary care can sit alongside medical or psychological treatment, and works best when it does.

Who comes to us

Our caseload here is broad. Clients often describe a period of work stress that has started to affect sleep. Some are finding themselves more wound up than usual and want a place to unwind. Others are managing a specific event (a presentation, a move, an exam) and want practical support during it. A proportion are in ongoing psychotherapy and use complementary treatments to support their process. And some have clinical anxiety for which they're getting medical care, and come to us for the parts of wellbeing that care doesn't reach.

Therapies clients explore

Counselling and psychotherapy. Our UKCP accredited psychotherapists include practitioners with specific experience in anxiety and stress related presentations. Modalities available include integrative counselling, Relational Transactional Analysis, mindfulness based approaches, and couples counselling. A careful initial conversation helps match you with the right practitioner.

Mindfulness and meditation. Our weekly meditation classes, led by an established teacher, are a well attended part of the clinic. Mindfulness and meditation are well researched as wellbeing practices, and many clients describe them as one of the most useful parts of their self care routine.

Acupuncture. We want to be careful with what we say. Our BAcC registered acupuncturists work with clients who describe themselves as stressed or wound up, and plenty of those clients come back. We will not tell you acupuncture treats anxiety. We will tell you it is one of the reasons people come in and one they often find worth continuing. Your practitioner will have an honest conversation about expectations.

Massage, aromatherapy, and reflexology. Regular gentle bodywork is an underrated element of stress management. Coming in for an hour of quiet in a calm room, with an attentive therapist, is itself useful.

Yoga and breathwork. Breath is one of the most direct routes to the nervous system. Our yoga and breathwork sessions can support you in building a practical toolkit you can use on your own between appointments.

What to expect at your first visit

Your practitioner will spend time understanding how you're doing, what you're hoping to feel more of or less of, and any relevant medical or psychological care you're already receiving. They will explain what they're offering and what it cannot do. Treatment or conversation begins in the same session.