Health Anxiety Treatment
At KlearMinds, our London based health anxiety therapists can help you discover powerful ways to positively manage anxious thoughts, deal with symptoms and stop health anxiety from negatively impacting your life.
Do you need to find a health anxiety counsellor? With over 30 years experience, we can expertly match you with a counsellor who works best for you. Making finding the right counsellor easier. Get a health anxiety therapist recommendation.
What is Health Anxiety
Health anxiety is a fear or preoccupation with the belief that one has, or is in danger of developing, a serious illness. It involves the misinterpretation of normal bodily sensations as dangerous. You may believe minor symptoms are signs of severe illness, even though a thorough medical exam doesn’t reveal a serious health condition. Those with health anxiety also frequently misinterpret physical symptoms of anxiety as a sign of a physical health problem.
How Can Health Anxiety Therapy Help?
Without understanding and addressing your symptoms, health anxiety may increase and have a debilitating effect on your wellbeing and quality of life. Our health anxiety counsellors can help you fully understand what triggers your health anxiety and show you essential techniques which will enable you to manage physical symptoms and the negative and catastrophic thinking that occurs.
What are the Benefits of Health Anxiety Counselling?
- Understand what triggers your health anxiety
- Develop tools to manage health anxiety triggers and minimise their effect
- Learn to challenge unhelpful and distressing thoughts and behaviours and to find a more rational or balanced point of view
- Learn techniques to reduce the physical side effects of health anxiety
- Develop coping strategies to stop health anxiety from negatively impacting your life
- Build a set of tools and techniques to help you to effectively prevent or manage any future health anxiety when therapy has ended
What are the Signs of Health Anxiety
- Exaggerating minor, often normal, bodily functions as symptoms of illness
- Worrying constantly about your health
- Frequently checking your body for signs of illness, such as rashes, lumps or unusual bodily sensations
- Seeking reassurance from friends, family or medical professionals
- Obsessively searching the internet for health related topics
- Avoiding your typical activities or situations out of concern for your health
- On top of these, anxiety itself can cause physical symptoms, such as shortness of breath, stomach upsets or a racing heartbeat. It’s also possible that people will mistake the physical symptoms of anxiety for another illness.
Meet Our Experienced Therapists
Carmen O’Connor
Psychotherapist and Counsellor
MA Integrative Psychotherapy, BA (hons), Certs, UKCP
Carmen holds over 10 years of experience.
Katie Rose
Psychotherapist
MA Integrative Arts Psychotherapy, PG Cert Emotional Wellbeing, BA (hons), Cert Counselling, HCPC, BAAT
Katie holds over 10 years of experience.
Tania Turner
Counsellor & Couples Therapist
BA (hons) Psychotherapeutic Counselling, Couples Counselling Cert, Mindfulness Cert, MBACP
Over 10 years experience in psychotherapy & couples counselling.
Amanda James
Psychotherapist & Counsellor
Dip Therapeutic Counselling, PG Dip Attachment Theory, Mindfulness, Adv Dip, BACP
Amanda holds over 12 years experience.
Take the First Step Towards Overcoming Health Anxiety
Frequently Asked Questions
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What is the Difference Between Health Anxiety and Feeling Anxious?
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Anxiety can produce very real physical symptoms: Dizziness, stomachaches, rapid heartbeat, tingling in the hands and feet, muscle tension, jitteriness, chest pressure, and the list goes on. When people experience these symptoms, often they believe it’s real evidence that something is seriously wrong. Perhaps, however, what you are actually experiencing are the symptoms of anxiety.
With health anxiety, you’ll feel extreme distress about your real or imagined symptoms even after medical test results come back negative and doctors reassure you that you’re healthy. Health anxiety persists despite reassurance from the doctor.
Get a Therapist Recommendation
Get in touch for a free telephone consultation with Maggie Morrow, Award Winning Therapist & KlearMinds Director.
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Our hand-selected therapists have trained in the UK’s most respected institutions. They hold a minimum of 8 and up to 30 years clinical experience within the NHS, private and/or charitable sectors. They are registered with:
