CBT for anxiety

Online therapy with a specialist CBT therapist, available across the UK

Anxiety has a way of making itself at home. It shows up before meetings, during conversations, in the middle of the night. It turns ordinary moments into something to brace for, and makes it hard to trust yourself — your decisions, your instincts, your right to take up space.

If you recognise that, you're not alone. Anxiety is one of the most common reasons people seek therapy. And it's also one of the conditions that responds best to the right support.

How CBT helps with anxiety

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is the gold-standard, evidence-based treatment for anxiety — recommended by the NHS and backed by decades of research. It works by helping you understand the relationship between your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours, and gently disrupting the patterns that keep anxiety going.

In practice, that means learning to recognise the automatic thoughts that fuel anxiety — the "what ifs," the worst-case predictions, the catastrophising — and building the skills to respond to them differently. Over time, situations that once felt overwhelming become more manageable. Not because the world gets less uncertain, but because you become steadier inside it.

When anxiety and self-criticism go hand in hand

For many of my clients, anxiety doesn't arrive alone. It comes packaged with a harsh inner critic — a voice that analyses everything, anticipates failure, and makes you feel like you need to be constantly on guard to avoid embarrassment or rejection.

This is where I combine CBT with Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT). CFT was developed specifically for people whose anxiety is tangled up with shame and self-criticism — and it adds something CBT alone can't always reach: a genuine shift in how you relate to yourself, not just how you think.

What anxiety can look like

Anxiety shows up differently for different people. I work with adults experiencing:

Generalised anxiety and worry Social anxiety Health anxiety Work and performance anxiety Panic attacks Anxiety alongside low self-esteem Anxiety in neurodivergent adults People-pleasing driven by fear

Working with me

I'm Eszter, a Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist based in London, working online with adults across the UK. My approach is warm, collaborative, and grounded in the evidence — but it never feels like a clinical procedure. We'll go at your pace, build practical tools you can actually use, and work on the deeper patterns underneath the anxiety, not just the symptoms on the surface.

I offer individual weekly therapy via Zoom, and a 12-week online group therapy programme for those who'd like the added support of working alongside others.

Getting started

The first step is a free 15-minute consultation — a relaxed, no-pressure call to talk about what you're experiencing and see if we're a good fit. There's no commitment required.

If anxiety has been running the show for long enough, let's start changing that.