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Anxiety and panic attacks: understanding your experience

Anxiety may feel like worry and tension. A panic attack can involve sudden intense fear and physical sensations such as a racing heart or difficulty breathing. These descriptions cannot diagnose you: similar symptoms can occur with other conditions.

If symptoms are new, severe or raise concern about your health, do not automatically dismiss them as anxiety; appropriate medical assessment is needed. For immediate danger, contact local emergency services.

What we can discuss in a consultation

How the experience affects your life, the situations that feel difficult and what you want from support. The appropriate format and whether another professional should be involved are discussed individually. You do not need to wait for a specified number of attacks before asking about help.

General information source: NHS

Discuss your request in a free introduction · Individual counselling

Client testimonials

Clients’ personal experiences. Translated from testimonials on Elena’s earlier Russian website.

M.

I can say that the result is a hundred times greater than I could have imagined. Today, the fears and worries that overwhelmed me a little over a month ago seem so small and absurd! Now I am not afraid, and I have the strength — lots and lots of it!!! — to keep changing my life!)) What is more, the people who used to fuel my fears have calmed down considerably since losing their control over my fear. Well, perhaps not completely, but they are behaving much more decently!!!))) And I face everything with a smile! Thank you for everything!

A.

You reminded me to work through everything step by step and try to get to the root of the problem, rather than simply feeling sad and constantly afraid. Each time, I gain more confidence and a greater understanding that possibilities are open to me and I can manage how I feel. We are continuing the work. Thank you so much!

A.

Thank you, Lena! Sorry, I will write for now. Perhaps we can have a call later, and I can share more. Your practices seem to have acted as a trigger for change; I am even a little shocked. There have been so many discoveries, creative ones and inner insights. This coincided with my own practices, and perhaps that is why things have started opening up. For now, I am observing, accepting it and feeling amazed by myself and what I can do. Truly, I am enormously grateful to you…

B.

Lena, thank you for the space you create. Every time, you open a door forward for me.

N.

Good afternoon, Elena. I needed some time after our meeting yesterday. I am glad I decided to ask you for help, and that you responded the same day. I do not know how it works — perhaps I do not need to know — but I feel immensely better. I am very grateful. Elena, thank you so much.

T.

I will never tire of thanking you for your help and advice! I would so much like the kindness you bring to people to find its way back to you!

Each testimonial describes an individual experience.