Anxiety Therapy
If anxiety has become a constant companion, colouring how you move through your day, your relationships, and your sense of yourself, I want you to know that you are not alone. And that something can shift.
I am Mark Greenaway-Robbins, a registered counsellor and psychotherapist with the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). I offer anxiety therapy from my practice rooms in Islington, Cardiff, and online.
Anxiety is one of the most common reasons people come to therapy, and one of the areas where thoughtful, consistent work can make a genuine difference.
Understanding Anxiety and Feeling Overwhelmed
Anxiety is your body and mind responding to perceived threat. In small doses it serves a purpose, keeping you alert and prepared. But when it becomes persistent, disproportionate, or hard to switch off, it starts to shrink your world.
It might show up as constant worry, a racing mind, difficulty sleeping, or a tightness in your chest that never quite eases. It might look like avoidance, pulling back from situations or people because the discomfort feels too great. Or it might sit beneath the surface as a low-level unease that colours everything without a clear cause.
Feeling overwhelmed is closely connected to anxiety. When demands feel greater than your resources, whether at work, in relationships, or in life more broadly, your nervous system can become stuck in a state of high alert. This is not a sign of weakness. It is your system trying to cope with more than it can comfortably hold.
However anxiety shows up for you, it deserves attention. Not because something is wrong with you, but because your nervous system is trying to tell you something, and therapy can help you listen.
How Anxiety Therapy Can Help
Working together, we can explore:
- What triggers your anxiety and the patterns that maintain it
- How past experiences may have shaped your response to stress and uncertainty
- The thoughts, beliefs, and assumptions that fuel anxious feelings
- Practical strategies for managing anxiety and overwhelm in your daily life
- The relationship between anxiety and other experiences such as low self-esteem, perfectionism, or difficult relationships
- What your anxiety might be protecting you from, and what it would take to feel safer
My approach is not about eliminating anxiety entirely. It is about helping you develop a different relationship with it, one where it no longer controls your choices.
How I Work With Anxiety
As a relational integrative therapist, I draw on CBT, Psychodynamic, and Humanistic approaches to meet you where you are. Some clients benefit from practical tools and strategies. Others need to explore the deeper roots of their anxiety. Most benefit from a combination of both.
I bring warmth and curiosity to our work. I am interested in understanding your anxiety, not just managing its symptoms. Together we will explore what sits beneath the surface and what conditions allow you to feel more grounded, more present, and more yourself. We work at a pace that feels right for you.
My integrative approach also pays attention to embodied experience, the way anxiety lives in your breath, your chest, your shoulders, and your sleep. We can work with both the thoughts and the physical patterns that hold anxiety in place.
As an autistic person with ADHD, I have personal experience of what it feels like when your nervous system is running at a different speed to the world around you. If your anxiety is linked to neurodivergent experience, I understand that from the inside.
Why Work With Me?
I offer a space that is genuinely warm and non-judgmental, built on mutual trust, openness, and connection. I will not rush you, diagnose you, or reduce your experience to a set of symptoms.
My background across cultures and continents has taught me that anxiety takes different shapes in different lives. I welcome clients from all backgrounds and I am attentive to how identity, culture, and lived experience shape the way anxiety is felt and expressed.
I am a registered member of the BACP and I work within their Ethical Framework. I have regular supervision and I am committed to ongoing professional development.
Anxiety Therapy in Islington, Cardiff and Online
I offer anxiety therapy from two practice locations and online across the UK:
- Islington, London: 1 Highbury Crescent, Highbury, N5 1RN. In-person sessions available on Thursdays.
- Cardiff: Sophia House, 28 Cathedral Rd, Pontcanna, CF11 9LJ. In-person sessions available Mondays to Wednesdays.
- Online: Sessions via Zoom, available Monday to Thursday.
Fees: Individual therapy £90 per 50-minute session (London) | £75 per 50-minute session (Cardiff).
Reach Out
Whatever brings you here, we can explore it together. I offer a free brief phone call so we can get a sense of whether we are a good fit, before you commit to anything.
Contact me on 07534 599 233, by text, or reach out through my contact page. Sessions can be weekly, fortnightly, or more spaced out, whatever fits your life.
Completely. Many of my clients feel nervous before their first session. That is a natural response, and I do everything I can to help you feel comfortable from the moment we begin. There is no pressure to share more than you are ready for.
They are closely related. Anxiety often involves worry about what might happen, while feeling overwhelmed is about what is happening right now feeling like too much. In practice, many people experience both at the same time. Therapy can help you understand your own experience and find ways to feel more grounded.
If practical strategies would be helpful, absolutely. But I also believe in understanding the roots of anxiety rather than only managing its surface. We will find the balance that works for you.
This varies from person to person. Some clients notice shifts within a few sessions, while for others it takes longer. What matters most is that you feel the therapy is moving in a direction that is helpful. We will check in on this together regularly.
Yes. Panic attacks are an intense expression of anxiety and they respond well to therapeutic work. Together we can explore what is driving them and develop strategies that help you feel more in control when they arise.