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Therapy for anxiety

Therapy for anxiety — online across India

Everyone worries. Anxiety is different: it's worry that has stopped being useful and started running the show — your sleep, your stomach, your Sunday evenings. Therapy can help you turn the volume down.

What it can feel like

Anxiety rarely announces itself by name. It usually shows up as some of this:

  • Your mind rehearses conversations that may never happen — and replays the ones that did.
  • The body joins in: a tight chest, a churning stomach, a heart that races in perfectly safe places.
  • You over-prepare, over-check, over-apologise — and still feel underprepared.
  • Saying no feels dangerous, so your calendar fills with things you dread.
  • Nights are the worst: tired but wired, planning tomorrow's worries in advance.
  • People say “just relax”, and it has never once worked.

A list like this can name an experience, but it can’t diagnose one — that takes a proper, unhurried assessment.

How therapy helps

Anxiety responds well to structured, evidence-based therapy. I work mainly with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) — noticing the loops between anxious thoughts, body sensations and the small avoidances that quietly keep the whole cycle alive — and with mindfulness-based CBT, which steadies your attention so thoughts have less pull. Where worry itself has become the habit (worrying about worrying, needing certainty before you can rest), metacognitive therapy helps change your relationship with the worry rather than arguing with each thought.

None of this is about becoming a person who never feels anxious. It’s about anxiety taking up less room — many people find that decisions get easier, sleep improves, and the body slowly stops bracing for a threat that isn’t there.

What working together looks like

We start by mapping your particular anxiety — where it lives, what feeds it, what it costs you. That alone often brings relief; a named pattern is less frightening than a fog. Then we work practically: skills for the body, experiments for the avoidances, and unhurried space for whatever sits underneath.

Sessions are weekly to begin with, online, in English or Malayalam. You won’t be judged for how long you waited to come — almost everyone waits.

Further reading

General, institutional reading — none of it replaces an assessment: APA on psychotherapy (opens in a new tab) · NIMH on evidence-based therapies (opens in a new tab) · Tele-MANAS (Govt. of India) (opens in a new tab)

Common questions

How do I know if it's anxiety or just stress?
Stress usually eases when the stressor passes. Anxiety hangs around, attaches itself to new things, and starts shrinking your life — skipped calls, avoided drives, declined plans. If it's interfering with how you want to live, it's worth addressing, whatever we end up calling it.
Will I have to take medication?
As a clinical psychologist I don't prescribe medication, and many people manage anxiety with therapy alone. If medication might genuinely help, I'll say so honestly and can work alongside a psychiatrist you choose.
Can panic attacks be helped?
Yes — panic responds particularly well to CBT-based work. Understanding what a panic attack actually is (a false alarm, not a heart attack) is often the first, surprisingly powerful step.

Anxiety shrinks when it's shared with the right person.

One session is enough to find out what this could look like for you. No pressure to continue — that would rather defeat the point.

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