In this session, Dr Sia Bandarian investigates common unhelpful thought patterns. We might find it difficult to determine whether a thought is helpful or not. Dr Sia helps us by examining six categories of thought that tend to be unhelpful to us, these are; catastrophising, over-generalising, jumping to conclusions, mind reading, personalising and minimising. We...

In this session, Dr Sia Bandarian investigates our defences to anxiety. Dr Sia explains what unconscious anxiety is and outlines four different types of defences we might use to reduce the unconscious anxiety we experience. These four different defences are; rationalising, intellectualising, minimising and displacing the source of our feelings. We find out how we...

In this session, Dr Sia Bandarian explores a psychodynamic understanding of the entrance of anxiety. He investigates how we might become anxious due to experiences from our childhood, outlining three different attachment styles; secure attachment, anxious avoidant attachment and anxious ambivalent attachment. We discover how these attachment styles can affect how we experience anxiety as...

In this session, Dr Sia Bandarian investigates the cycle of anxiety. He explores different situations that may cause anxiety and explains how some behaviours which reduce our anxiety in the short-term are not effective and can keep perpetuating our anxiety. Dr Sia examines three main ways we might temporarily reduce anxiety that remains problematic in...

In this session, Dr Sia Bandarian investigates the impact that thoughts have on our anxiety. He shows us how we can begin to monitor our anxious thoughts, outlining a technique we can use to identify our thoughts and how they relate to our anxiety in different situations. Dr Sia examines how our fears and anxieties...

In this session, Dr Sia Bandarian explores how we can begin to change our anxious thoughts. Following on from the previous session ‘Revealing Our Anxious Thoughts’, Dr Sia further investigates our anxious thoughts and how they affect us in different situations. He shows us a technique we can use to evaluate whether our thoughts are...