Strange title, I know, but people who suffer from anxiety spend their lives contemplating this question, anxiety sufferers blight their lives wondering ‘what if?’. Anxiety always seems to be the lesser known sibling to depression in that more people tend to understand and accept depression as being a fact of life and less people seem to understand what anxiety is all about. Most drivers will know what I mean what I tell them to imagine that horrible feeling you get when you realise you’ve narrowly missed hitting another car; you feel as if you’re going to be sick, life passes in slow motion and you are gripped by a paralysing fear as if you are about to die……anxiety sufferers feel this horrific feeling many times a day and spend their lives trying to avoid feeling like this which becomes part of the problem.
Let me give you an example; if you feel anxious in the queue at Sainsbury’s one day, chances are you will do your best to avoid standing in the queue at Sainsbury’s. You may decide that you can’t risk standing in any queue in case you have a panic attack in front of strangers. In fact you may decide that being out in public is just risky generally, it makes you feel terrible and you constantly think about all the ‘what ifs’. So you come up with what you decide is the best solution…….you’ll avoid going out where there are people in order to keep yourself ‘safe’.
The problem with this strategy is that your ‘safe bubble’ starts to get smaller and smaller and you never actually get to disconfirm that these ideas are not true because you are so busy avoiding things that could be anxiety inducing. I absolutely hate seeing people who have been stuck at this point for years with no idea how to stop this cycle happening, especially when there is something really effective that can help. CBT is absolutely the best thing for anxiety. As soon as people walk through my door I know that they have all the skills to stop the anxiety. You may not want to hear this, but your mind has created the anxiety, so you already have what you need to sort it out, I just need to show you how to start turning the wheel the other way!
Known as the best psychologist around, Wendy’s an obvious choice to be featured on the show’
Cheshire Housewives
As an ex-athlete I’ve always advocated the benefits of keeping in shape physically, but it’s just as important to look after your mental wellbeing. Book a session with Wendy, she’s the person to help you look after your brain just as you would your body.
Graham Bell
5 x Olympic Skier and presenter of BBC Ski Sunday.
Amazing!
Rachel Lugo
Cheshire Housewives
Dare to dream big and Wendy’s THE person to help get you there.
Sam Bailey
X Factor winner with a long list of sell out tour successes under her belt.
The most exciting thing in the world is getting a chance to tear it all up and start again. Keep all the things you want and throw out everything you don’t. Wendy will help you do just that!
Becky Sheeran
Beauty, lifestyle and fashion blogging sensation Becky Sheeran (TalkBeckyTalk)
It’s great to have a leading psychotherapist such as Wendy in the Cheshire area, outside of her Harley Street practice. After publicly raising awareness of mental health issues and myself recovering from depression, I know how immensely life-changing expert intervention can be.
Jason Jarrett
Retired ex-professional football who played for Bury, Wigan, Stoke, Preston, Norwich, Leicester and Brighton during a 14 year career. After leaving professional football, Jason battled depression and recovered with the help of therapy and family support.
Wendy is great at what she does; she made me feel at ease immediately and really helped me work through some issues.
Tara Costello
It’s funny but from the minute I met her I felt so relaxed and she was so easy to talk to. Thank you!
Stevie Brown
Wendy isn’t only really good at what she does, she’s also really easy to talk to.
Gabriel Wilson
I want to thank you Wendy from the bottom of my heart for guiding me through what must have been the most difficult time of my life.
Raza Syed
I was told she was the best and they were right.
Noelle Dray
Although I consider myself a confident person, I was really nervous when I met Wendy for the first time. I had only emailed her before so it was really nerve wracking walking up the stairs to her office. I can honestly say it’s one of the best things I have ever done. Wendy is really normal, no in fact she isn’t normal as she is unfailingly bright and smiley even when she has to listen to me moan on about how awful my life was. It feels like having a chat with somebody who just gets you and you can trust with things you have never trusted anybody else with before. The magic bit comes when things you have talked about just pop up into your head and you start to do things differently. Wendy once joked about not having a magic wand, but I think she has.
Paul Hendry
I came to Wendy with a set of problems I have never been able to fully explain to anyone, which included grief, many family issues and alcohol problems. Wendy truly has an active listening style and absorbs everything you are saying, whilst not making you feel analysed, it is an incredible skill. She astounded me at how she got to the crux of the issues so fast. So much so that we both agreed I only needed one session with her, obviously this may not be the case with everyone but I would confidently recommend her to anyone, regardless of your problems. There was no awkwardness or even clock watching, she is wonderful at what she does, take the plunge and make an appointment, you will not regret it. Life is a direction not a destination and she will get you on the path again.
JB
