Therapy for Anxiety, Stress & Worry
Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy for anxiety in London and online.
When worry, overthinking, physical tension, checking or avoidance start taking up too much space, therapy can help you understand what is maintaining the pattern and develop a more flexible way of responding.
Anxiety can take many forms
It may feel like constant worry. It may show up as tension, overpreparation, replaying conversations, avoiding situations or finding it difficult to switch off.
Anxiety often becomes more disruptive when the mind starts treating uncertainty, evaluation or the possibility of getting something wrong as something that must be controlled. The result can be a lot of effort spent trying to feel safe — without ever quite feeling settled.
Anxiety can hide inside productivity, preparation and control
Some people do not recognise themselves as anxious because they are still functioning — sometimes at a very high level.
Instead, anxiety may appear as perfectionistic checking, procrastination, overpreparation, hesitation, difficulty delegating, rumination or a need to feel completely certain before moving forward.
You may already have evidence that you are capable. The problem is that the evidence does not always seem to count when the next uncertain or high-pressure situation arrives.
When responsibility, scrutiny or visibility raise the stakes
Anxiety can become particularly difficult when your work involves being evaluated, making consequential decisions, speaking with authority or performing while other people are watching.
The broader pattern may be anxiety, but the situation that activates it matters. These pages look in more detail at some of the professional situations in which anxiety commonly becomes concentrated.
Performance review & feedback anxiety
When appraisal, criticism or formal evaluation starts to feel like a judgement of your overall capability.
Fear of making mistakes at work
When the possibility of getting something wrong leads to checking, hesitation or excessive preparation.
Can’t move on after a mistake
When an actual mistake keeps replaying long after the event and begins shaping how you approach the next challenge.
Decision anxiety at work
When uncertainty makes even well-informed choices feel unusually difficult to commit to.
Client meeting anxiety
When interactive scrutiny, unpredictable questions or commercial consequences increase the pressure.
Negotiation anxiety
When disagreement, asking for something or holding your position starts to feel disproportionately threatening.
Presentation anxiety at work
When prepared material becomes harder to deliver once attention and judgement are directed towards you.
Fear of speaking up in meetings
When you know what you want to say but hesitate once the room turns towards you.
Workplace imposter syndrome
When success, praise and evidence fail to update the way you judge your own capability.
Procrastination affecting your career
When avoidance becomes tied to pressure, perfectionism, uncertainty or fear of what performance might reveal.
Short-term relief can keep the threat believable
What keeps anxiety going is often not the initial feeling alone, but the cycle that develops around it.
The exact cycle differs between people. Therapy therefore starts with understanding your version of the pattern rather than applying a generic anxiety formula.
Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy for anxiety
Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy combines cognitive and behavioural principles with focused attention, imagery and hypnosis within a structured therapeutic approach.
CBH is not simply CBT followed by hypnosis. The methods are selected and combined around the pattern that appears to be maintaining the problem.
Christopher Higgins
Founder of Bohangar and Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy practitioner.
Before moving into therapy, Christopher worked as a business analyst within investment banking. That experience provides useful first-hand context for professional environments where uncertainty, scrutiny, deadlines, responsibility and performance can all matter at once.
The aim is not to assume every professional experiences pressure in the same way. It is to understand the specific pattern that has developed for you and work with the factors that appear to be keeping it going.
About Christopher →Structured, individual therapy
Sessions focus on the problem as it appears in your life now: what triggers it, what you predict, what you do to cope and what needs to change for the pattern to become less restrictive.
Tools can help with moments. Therapy works with persistent patterns.
Choose the setting that works for you
Soho
14A Broadwick Street, Soho, London W1F 8HP. Convenient for people working across the West End and central London.
Soho practice →Greenwich
15A Nelson Road, Greenwich, London SE10 9JB. An established SE10 practice location.
Greenwich practice →Online
Remote sessions are available where appropriate, giving you a consistent way to attend from home, work or while travelling.
Ask about online sessions →What sessions involve
The first step is simply understanding what has been happening and whether this approach looks appropriate for the problem you want help with.
Frequently asked questions
Is CBH the same as CBT?
No. Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy uses cognitive and behavioural principles, but it can also integrate hypnosis, imagery and focused attention where those methods are useful to the individual formulation. It is not simply a CBT session followed by hypnosis.
Can therapy help if I know my anxiety is irrational but still feel it?
Yes, that is a common reason people seek therapy. Understanding intellectually that something is unlikely does not always change the predictions, habits and protective responses that keep anxiety active. Therapy can work with that gap between what you know and what your system keeps reacting to.
What if my anxiety mainly happens at work?
That is well within the scope of the practice. The important question is what specifically activates the anxiety — for example scrutiny, uncertainty, decisions, presentations, meetings, feedback or fear of mistakes — and what keeps the pattern going once it is triggered.
Do I need a diagnosis to seek help for anxiety?
No. You can seek help because anxiety, worry or avoidance is affecting your life, work, confidence, sleep or relationships. A formal diagnosis is not required before making an enquiry.
Can sessions be online?
Yes. Online sessions are available where appropriate, alongside in-person sessions in Soho and Greenwich.
Talk about what’s been happening
If anxiety, worry or overthinking has become a persistent pattern, a discovery call is a straightforward way to discuss what is happening and whether working together makes sense.
Book a 20-minute discovery call →