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Overcoming Anxiety with Metacognitive Therapy
Step out of the worry cycle and regain your mental freedom.
Support for Anxiety
At Lazy Therapy, I offer a focused, practical approach to anxiety using Metacognitive Therapy (MCT).
Rather than analysing the content of your worries, we look at how certain thinking habits — like persistent worrying or monitoring for danger — keep anxiety going, and how to gently change your relationship with them.
Many people experience anxiety as a constant hum of tension, “what if” thoughts, or a feeling of being on alert.It’s not the feelings themselves that keep you stuck — it’s what happens around them.
MCT helps you step out of these patterns so life can feel clearer, calmer, and less effortful.
How Anxiety Gets Stuck (The CAS)
Anxiety is maintained by a set of understandable habits known as the Cognitive Attentional Syndrome (CAS), including:
Excessive worry — looping “what if” thinking about future problems
Threat monitoring — scanning your body, mind, or environment for danger
Avoidance — staying away from situations, thoughts, or sensations
Reassurance seeking — checking or asking others to feel temporarily safer
These reactions make sense — they’re attempts to cope — but over time they train the mind to stay anxious.
Lazy Therapy’s Approach to Anxiety
Using MCT, we work together to gently identify beliefs that keep worry running in the background, such as:
“Worry helps me stay prepared.”
“If I stop monitoring, something bad will happen.”
Once these beliefs loosen, anxiety has much less to hold onto.
Detached mindfulnessYou’ll learn to notice anxious thoughts briefly and neutrally, without analysing or engaging with them.When thoughts aren’t treated as threats, they naturally lose their emotional charge.
Shifting attentionAnxiety pulls attention inward.You’ll practice redirecting attention outward — toward meaningful tasks, conversations, and everyday life.
Reducing avoidance and safety behavioursAvoidance keeps anxiety alive.We gradually support you to re-engage with life so confidence grows on its own, without forcing or exposure overload.
Common Anxiety Areas I Support
Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Panic Disorder
Social Anxiety
Health Anxiety
Specific Phobias
With MCT, the goal isn’t to eliminate thoughts or feelings — it’s to help your mind stop fighting itself, so anxiety no longer runs the show.
Rather than analysing the content of your worries, we look at how certain thinking habits — like persistent worrying or monitoring for danger — keep anxiety going, and how to gently change your relationship with them.
Many people experience anxiety as a constant hum of tension, “what if” thoughts, or a feeling of being on alert.It’s not the feelings themselves that keep you stuck — it’s what happens around them.
MCT helps you step out of these patterns so life can feel clearer, calmer, and less effortful.
How Anxiety Gets Stuck (The CAS)
Anxiety is maintained by a set of understandable habits known as the Cognitive Attentional Syndrome (CAS), including:
Excessive worry — looping “what if” thinking about future problems
Threat monitoring — scanning your body, mind, or environment for danger
Avoidance — staying away from situations, thoughts, or sensations
Reassurance seeking — checking or asking others to feel temporarily safer
These reactions make sense — they’re attempts to cope — but over time they train the mind to stay anxious.
Lazy Therapy’s Approach to Anxiety
Using MCT, we work together to gently identify beliefs that keep worry running in the background, such as:
“Worry helps me stay prepared.”
“If I stop monitoring, something bad will happen.”
Once these beliefs loosen, anxiety has much less to hold onto.
Detached mindfulnessYou’ll learn to notice anxious thoughts briefly and neutrally, without analysing or engaging with them.When thoughts aren’t treated as threats, they naturally lose their emotional charge.
Shifting attentionAnxiety pulls attention inward.You’ll practice redirecting attention outward — toward meaningful tasks, conversations, and everyday life.
Reducing avoidance and safety behavioursAvoidance keeps anxiety alive.We gradually support you to re-engage with life so confidence grows on its own, without forcing or exposure overload.
Common Anxiety Areas I Support
Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Panic Disorder
Social Anxiety
Health Anxiety
Specific Phobias
With MCT, the goal isn’t to eliminate thoughts or feelings — it’s to help your mind stop fighting itself, so anxiety no longer runs the show.