Health Anxiety Therapy London

What Is Health Anxiety?

Health anxiety is a condition in which a person becomes excessively preoccupied with the belief that they are seriously ill. Despite repeated reassurance from doctors, the worry persists, and even normal bodily sensations become a source of intense fear. Health anxiety became significantly more prevalent in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Our Practitioners Who Work with Health Anxiety

How We Treat Health Anxiety

CBT is the gold-standard treatment for health anxiety. We also draw on psychodynamic, compassion-focused, and acceptance-based approaches where appropriate. Our therapists will never dismiss or minimise your concerns.

Signs You May Be Experiencing Health Anxiety

Why Choose London Trusted Therapy for Health Anxiety?

Health anxiety is one of the most misunderstood and undertreated conditions in psychological practice. It is frequently dismissed — by medical professionals, and sometimes by the person themselves — as “just worry.” At London Trusted Therapy, we know that it is far more than that. We take your experience seriously from the very first conversation.

A clinically led, multidisciplinary team

Every practitioner at London Trusted Therapy holds substantial postgraduate training and professional accreditation, with a minimum of five years of clinical experience and an average of fifteen to twenty years across the team. Our practitioners include chartered and counselling psychologists, psychotherapists and counsellors accredited with the BACP, UKCP, COSRT and HCPC- all working under the clinical direction of Dr Olena Edwards-Skadowska, BACP Accredited Psychotherapist, MBPsS, FMBPsS, and actively practising clinician.

Dr Edwards-Skadowska is the recipient of the Outstanding Leadership Award for Services to Mental Health, presented at the Health 2.0 Global Conference 2024 — a recognition that reflects the values of excellence, integrity, and genuine clinical commitment that run through everything London Trusted Therapy does.

At London Trusted Therapy, you will be seen by a practitioner who is an expert in health anxiety — someone who brings deep, focused expertise to your presentation, rather than whoever is next available.

What Our Clients Say About Us

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The Breadth to Meet Your Full Picture

London Trusted Therapy is a genuinely multidisciplinary practice, which means your care is not confined to a single modality. Where health anxiety intersects with trauma, panic, or underlying medical concerns, we are able to facilitate internal cross-referrals — to EMDR specialists, to psychiatry for assessment and medication review, or to other relevant disciplines within the practice. Your treatment can evolve with you, without the disruption of starting again elsewhere.

A holistic, integrative approach

London Trusted Therapy is a holistic practice. We do not begin with a protocol and fit you to it — we begin with you.

London Trusted Therapy is a holistic practice. We do not begin with a protocol and fit you to it — we begin with you. For health anxiety, this means drawing on Somatic Experiencing to work directly with the nervous system’s hypervigilance towards bodily sensation; mindfulness-based approaches to help you develop a more settled, observational relationship with physical experience; and psychodynamic exploration to understand what the anxiety may be expressing about your deeper fears, history, and sense of safety in the world. Where cognitive restructuring and behavioural techniques are useful, CBT and ACT are integrated as part of this wider picture. We will never dismiss or minimise your concerns.

Three Central London Locations and Online

Harley Street

Pinero House
115A Harley Street
London W1G 6AR

Welbeck Street

30 Welbeck Street
London W1G 8ER

Chancery Lane

1 Quality Court
Chancery Lane
London WC2A 1HR

Online Therapy

UK-wide
and internationally
You do not have to carry this alone. 
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Our Quality Guarantee

Should you feel that your first session did not meet your expectations or that your therapist wasn’t a good fit, we will provide another session completely free of charge with a different practitioner.

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