Issues We Address
The Illawarra Anxiety Clinic specialises in assisting clients with the following issues:
- Obsessions and compulsions (OCD)
- Unwanted intrusive thoughts/images/urges/doubts (regarding violence, sex, immorality, sexual orientation, one's partner or children, romantic relationships, etc.) - this is the #1 most common issue for which people seek my help, and consistency achieve excellent outcomes
- Concerns about germs, contamination, and illness
- Concerns about being responsible for harm, injury, or bad luck
- Concerns about symmetry, arranging, completeness, and the need for things to be "just right"
- Panic attacks and agoraphobia
- Social anxiety
- Post-traumatic stress (PTSD)
- Phobias
- Blood/injection/injury stimuli (including applied tension for fainting)
- Natural environments (e.g., heights, enclosed places, storms, driving)
- Animals/insects
- Vomiting
- Health (illness) anxiety
- Generalised anxiety and excessive worry (GAD)
- Body image and disordered eating issues
- Hair pulling (trichotillomania)
- Skin picking
- Stress
- Adjustment to negative life events (e.g., relationship breakups, grief)
- Changing values-inconsistent behaviour (e.g., addictive behaviour, overeating, bingeing)
- Living a more meaningful and fulfilling life
- Depression