Evidence-based psychological treatment for persistent worry, overthinking, panic and the sense of being unable to settle — whatever the external picture looks like.
Many of the people I work with present as composed, capable and entirely in control — while privately managing a near-constant undercurrent of worry, rumination or physical tension that rarely fully switches off.
Anxiety left unaddressed tends to generalise. What begins as worry about one specific area of life gradually expands, and avoidance — even subtle avoidance — quietly narrows what feels possible.
Evidence-based psychological treatment for anxiety is genuinely effective, with strong outcome data across CBT and related approaches. This is not about learning to tolerate anxiety indefinitely. It is about changing what is maintaining it.
My approach is grounded in CBT — the most extensively evidenced treatment for anxiety — alongside schema therapy where longstanding patterns are involved, informed by my neuroscience background.
This is not about teaching you to manage anxiety symptoms indefinitely. It is about identifying and changing the specific thinking patterns, beliefs and behaviours that are maintaining the anxiety, so the change actually holds.
I work with professionals who function well externally and find the gap between presentation and internal experience particularly difficult to acknowledge, let alone address.
"Anxiety is rarely irrational when you understand what it is protecting. The work is not to dismiss it, but to understand it precisely enough to change it."
Dr Sanya Krljes · Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Breathing exercises and apps can help in the moment. They do not address the underlying beliefs and patterns generating the anxiety, which is why symptoms often return once the technique is set aside.
Psychological therapy works at the level of those patterns directly — identifying what specifically is maintaining your anxiety and changing it, rather than managing the experience indefinitely.
I am a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with doctorates in cognitive neuroscience (Imperial College London) and clinical psychology (UCL), and over 20 years of clinical experience treating anxiety across NHS and private settings.
I work with professionals who need their psychologist to understand the particular pressure of high-stakes roles, and I bring that context directly into the work rather than treating anxiety in the abstract.
Qualifications
MSc Neuroscience — King's College London
PhD Cognitive Neuroscience — Imperial College London
DClinPsy — University College London
HCPC Registered · BPS Chartered Psychologist & AFBPsS
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