In this session, Dr Sia Bandarian investigates the path of anxiety. He provides us with an understanding on what anxiety is and identifies the difference between fear and anxiety. Dr Sia explains how and why people experience anxiety in different ways. He examines these various types of anxiety and discusses how they might manifest in...

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 the triggers of anxiety. Sometimes it might be clear what situations or objects trigger our anxiety, however sometimes we may not notice or understand our triggers. Dr Sia explains how and why some of our triggers might go unnoticed using detailed client examples.

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 investigates the consequences of anxiety. He explains how anxiety is a very common experience, that for many people results with issues in their lives. Dr Sia discusses how anxiety can be isolating and that it is important not to judge ourselves. Through examining the consequences of anxiety, Dr Sia...

In this session, Dr Sia Bandarian investigates how we can communicate our feelings when we are anxious. He explores unconscious anxiety and describes how we can recognise the caring person inside of us. Dr Sia helps us discover how to communicate our true feelings to the people in our life. He provides us with examples...

In this session, Dr Sia Bandarian investigates social anxiety. He examines why some people experience social anxiety and others don’t. We discover different reasons for social anxiety, including the impact adverse past experiences and our childhood may have on our condition.

In this session, Dr Sia Bandarian investigates core beliefs. He discusses how our core beliefs are primarily responsible for our unhelpful anxious thoughts. Dr Sia provides us with three questions we can ask ourselves to identify our core beliefs and shows us a simple technique we can use to reduce the effect that our core...

In this session, Dr Sia Bandarian investigates intense phobia-like fear. He explores the different kinds of objects and situations that can cause intense phobia-like fear and discusses how we can monitor these fears. Dr Sia highlights the impact our past traumatic experiences might have on our fears and explains why some people fear certain situations...

In this session, Dr Sia Bandarian investigates the caring self. He helps us to become more aware of ourselves and our feelings. Dr Sia examines the consequences of our anxiety and assists us to find the caring person inside of us that encourages us to take action, so that we can live a more meaningful...

In this session, Dr Sia Bandarian investigates panic attacks. He offers us an understanding on the nature of panic attacks, assuring us that our panic attacks are not dangerous. Dr Sia examines three different ways we can experience anxiety, these are in our striated muscles, smooth muscles and cognitive perceptual disruption. We might experience any...

In this session, Dr Sia Bandarian investigates identifies three common barriers that prevent us from caring from ourselves. The first barrier Dr Sia examines is self-neglect, discussing how this part of ourselves may have arisen in childhood. The second barrier is self-punishment, where a part of us is putting ourselves down. Dr Sia explores causes...

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 how to use Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) to reduce our anxiety tension in our body. Dr Sia guides us through a relaxation exercise. We begin by focusing on our breath, and then gradually bringing our awareness to different parts of our body, working through tensing our muscles and...

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 how we can overcome the noise of anxiety in our mind, and tension of anxiety in our body using mindfulness. He guides us through a mindfulness exercise to help us notice the thoughts we are experiencing and our feelings in this moment. Dr Sia brings our awareness to...

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...