Anxiety

INTEGRATIVE HOLISTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY

IN LEEK, BUXTON (UK) and ONLINE

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Helping you to feel calm and confident

You don’t have to put up with anxiety and overwhelm, even if it’s been part of your life for years. I can help you to feel more confident and calmer in your own sensitive skin.

How my approach helps:

We will focus on regulating your nervous system with breathwork and other somatic techniques. We will also identify and heal the root cause of your anxiety and other subconscious beliefs that might be holding you back. We will do this with life mapping, psychodynamic therapy, IFS-informed parts work, and visualisation (including shadow work and inner child work).

With my blend of techniques, I can help you to become calmer and more present with yourself and around others.

Does this sound familiar?

You’ve always been a worrier and although the worry has helped you to avoid difficult situations in the past, it’s started to interfere with your everyday life in ways that are increasingly difficult to cope with. Perhaps you’re feeling overwhelmed or stressed in ways that seem out of proportion and you can’t find a way to switch off. You may worry about the past and future, or have constant self-doubt. You may also be sleeping poorly or feeling fatigued.

Perhaps you struggle with social situations and you fear judgement or criticism from others. Social anxiety might show up in ways that prevent you from being able to connect with your friends and family. Perhaps you feel socially isolated because of this.

MEET YOUR THERAPIST

Hi there, I’m Hayley Trower, PhD.

I specialise in anxiety treatment in Leek, Buxton and online.

I’m skilled in several evidence-based approaches to treat anxiety in sensitive people (including generalised anxiety, social anxiety, and agoraphobia).

My integrative approach includes psychodynamic therapy, breathwork, meditation, mindfulness, visualisation, shame work, radical forgiveness, and parts work (IFS informed, inner child, and subpersonalities). I tailor my appraoch in a way that works for each individual.

My core training is with The Reach Approach, a UK based holistic psychotherapy organisation that has been changing lives for more than 40 years. I am an associate of the Reach Approach, a member of the BACP, and my training is accredited by the NCPS and the CMA.

Nervous system regulation for anxiety is an important first step before diving into the deeper work. Tools might include breathwork, deep relaxation, meditation, yoga, walking, yoga nidra, social connection, creativity, sound healing and more. We will explore this together so that you can start to feel safer in your body and mind.

Life mapping is a journey that helps to identify and heal the root cause of your anxiety. It helps you to share your story, observe your own patterns, and see how your experiences and conditioning have shaped you.

Shame work and radical forgiveness are a perfect combination for healing anxiety. Shame is often at the root of anxiety. It creates feelings of inadequacy, a sense of insecurity around others, and fear of rejection or abandonment. These experiences may then cause you to become hypervigilant, fearful, and anxious about future interactions. Self-forgiveness helps you to let go.

Visualisation (inner child work, dark room work) is a deeply transformational approach for healing anxiety once the foundational work has been done. It encourages whole brain thinking which helps you to experience life from a clearer perspective. You can make calm and balanced decisions based on emotion, intution and logic rather than fear.

Parts work can help you to view your anxious thoughts and feelings as protective parts within you. It is informed by Internal Family Systems (IFS) and based on the premise that we all carry self-protective parts. By learning to negotiate with them and work with them rather than against them, you can step back and observe your anxiety rather than be absorbed by it.

I can also help with addiction, low self-esteem and low confidence, chronic overwhelm, and other challenges.

Common questions about anxiety

  • No, you don't need a diagnosis, a referral, or a letter from your GP. If anxiety is getting in the way of your life – your relationships, your work, your sleep, or just your ability to feel okay in your own skin – that's enough. If it's affecting you, it matters.

  • Absolutely – in fact, highly sensitive people are exactly who I work best with. Sensitivity is often at the heart of anxiety, and many of my clients have spent years feeling like they're too much or too emotional. My approach is gentle, non-pressured, and paced in a way that works with your nervous system rather than against it. And one of the things we'll work on together is helping you to see your sensitivity not as a flaw to be fixed, but as a genuine strength.

  • I'd reframe the word ‘cured.’ What we're really working towards is a different relationship with anxiety, where it no longer runs the show. Most of my clients find that as we work through the root causes, what once felt overwhelming becomes something they can move through rather than be consumed by. That's transforming it rather than just managing it.

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