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Health anxiety affects thousands of people in the UK and it can be effectively treated with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

This introductory booklet is aimed at those for whom health anxiety has become a serious problem. Written by experienced practitioners, it explains what health anxiety is and how it makes you feel. It will help the reader to understand their symptoms and is ideal as an immediate coping strategy and as a preliminary to fuller therapy.

What health anxiety is and how it develops.

Physical symptoms.

How to spot and challenge thoughts that make you anxious.

Reducing your focus on illness.


Overcoming app now available via iTunes and the Google Play Store.

Anxiety affects thousands of people in the UK and it can be effectively treated with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

This introductory booklet is aimed at those for whom anxiety has become a problem. Written by experienced practitioners, it explains what anxiety is and how it makes you feel when it becomes unmanageable or lasts for long periods of time. It will help the reader to understand their symptoms and is ideal as an immediate coping strategy and as a preliminary to fuller therapy.

What anxiety is and how it develops.
Physical symptoms.
How to spot and challenge thoughts that make you anxious.
Thinking in a more balanced way.
Changing how you behave in order to reduce your feelings of anxiety.


'This booklet will prove an invaluable first step to overcoming anxiety.' Professor Peter Cooper, Professor of Psychology, University of Reading


Panic affects thousands of people in the UK and it can be effectively treated with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

Written by an experienced practitioner, this introductory booklet explains what panic attacks are and how they make you feel. It will help the reader to understand their symptoms and is ideal as an immediate coping strategy and as a preliminary to fuller therapy.

How panic attacks develop and what keeps them going.

The link between your thoughts and your panic attacks.

Case studies.

Breathing techniques.


Overcoming App now available via iTunes and the Google Play Store.

Depression affects thousands of people in the UK and it can be effectively treated with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

Written by experienced practitioners, this introductory booklet explains what depression is and how it makes you feel. It will help the reader to understand their symptoms and is ideal as an immediate coping strategy and as a preliminary to fuller therapy.

How depression develops and what keeps it going.
How to spot and challenge thoughts that maintain your depression
Problem solving and balanced thinking.