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Summary
Dr Jim Byrne offers specialized anxiety and panic counselling services in Hebden Bridgem and worldwide over the Internet.
The focus of this service is on managing anxiety, panic, and fear through holistic techniques, and it does not involve any drug treatments.
The process begins with an initial email exchange where clients answer questions about their feelings and experiences. Clients must complete questionnaires to help identify the roots of their issues, leading to a 60-minute assessment session, either in-person or virtually. Following this meeting, Dr Byrne analyzes the information and provides a detailed report with observations and potential solutions. The service, aimed at those who learn best through reading and writing, is priced at £450.00 GBP.
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Service No.7: Dr Jim’s Anxiety and Panic Counselling
If you are suffering with intense fear, generalized anxiety, or social anxiety, then I can help.
This service has the following elements:
Firstly, if you email me, and I am unsure what your problem is, I will ask you the following questions:
- What emotion do you feel? (Fear? Apprehension? Anxiety? Panic?)
- How long have you been feeling like this?
- What do you think is the cause of this feeling, or these feelings?
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Secondly, I will ask you to complete at least at least three questionnaires; one to find out about your personality adaptations; one to find out about your lifestyle factors; and at least one to find out the details of your fear, anxiety, panic, etc.
Thirdly, when I get your completed questionnaires back, I will analyse them and form some tentative ideas about what the roots of your problem may be.
I will then suggest that we meet for a sixty minute counselling session, face to face in Hebden Bridge, or over the Internet (on Microsoft Teams), or by telephone.
At our meeting, I will conduct some informal assessment of your situation, to confirm or deny or modify my original conclusions based on your questionnaire answers.
After our meeting, I will spend several hours digesting my understanding of the roots of your problem, and the potential solutions.
Then I will write up an analytical report which most often follows this structure:
- What happened at our meeting?
- My observations and reflections
- My conclusions.
- A list of follow-up documents to be sent, containing potential solutions to your problem.
Clearly, this service is ideal for individuals who learn well from reading and writing;
And it is not at all suitable for individuals who have problems reading and writing, or who simply do not learn well using that approach.
And again, it is clear that, since I will spend at least 5 to 10 hours dealing with your case – (your problem; your situation) – that I have to charge a realistic fee.
For this service, I do not charge £900! I only charge £450.00 GBP.
And this fee must be paid before I send my questionnaires.
If you want to take advantage of this premium service, please email me:
Email: Dr Jim Byrne, Doctor of Counselling
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ABC Counselling and Psychotherapy Services
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Some insights into anxiety
Generalized anxiety is expressed in the form of worry; worry and apprehension about every conceivable form of threat or danger, which might exist just ahead of where we currently are, But worry is not the solution to threats or dangers:
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“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength”.
Corrie Ten Boom
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Definition
Anxiety is a kind of fear of the future – or fear of future threats and dangers. It is not all in the mind. It is a whole body-brain-mind experience, and it can be controlled and reduced (to tolerable proportions) with the right kind of combination of alternative health and psychological counselling interventions.
Health anxiety is a particular form of anxiety, which focuses upon the threats to freedom and happiness that can arise out of contracting a major disease, or experiencing a bad accident.
The E-CENT theory of anxiety says that we are born with an innate sense of fear: (Darwin, 1872/1965; and Panksepp, 1998). Babies begin to display a pronounced sense of fear from about the age of six or seven months. This sense of fear is of something that is present – like loud noise; a furry animal; something that looks like a snake; etc. In time, we learn to feel anxious, which is to say, fearful about things that are not present, but which we ‘think-feel’ (consciously and/or subconsciously) might represents threats and dangers just a little while in the future.
You could be feeling anxious or panicky today, about your social situation, or your income, career or work stressors; or about your health in general; or about a specific health risk, such as the current Covid-19 epidemic.
If you need help with problems of anxiety, fear, panic, stress or strain, then contact me today to arrange an appointment in Hebden Bridge, or an online (Teams) meeting, or a telephone counselling session from any part of the world.
Best wishes,
Jim Byrne
January 2026
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If you need my help, then please contact me today:
01422 843 629, from inside the UK.
44 1422 843 629 from outside.
Email: Dr Jim at ABC Counselling.
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The intensity of anxiety varies from situation to situation
People feel different intensities of anxiety, depending upon the seriousness of the threat or danger that they are anticipating, and how that degree of seriousness interacts with their felt sense of ‘coping capability’. And people who are anxious tend to worry endlessly. This, of course, does not help, as shown by Dr Tom Miller:
“Worry is a magical attempt to control something which cannot be controlled by worry!”
Dr Tom Miller.
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But also, note, that worry is not ‘all in the mind’, and that you often have to work on your body to wash the stress hormones out of your system, before you can begin to relax and stop worrying.
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If you need help with problems of anxiety, fear, panic, stress or strain, then contact metoday to arrange an appointment in Hebden Bridge, or a telephone counselling session from any part of the world.
Best wishes,
Jim Byrne
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If you need my help, then please contact me today:
01422 843 629, from inside the UK.
44 1422 843 629 from outside.
Email: Dr Jim at ABC Counselling.
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The less serious the inferred threat is assumed to be, and the more coping capability we sense that we have, then the lower our intensity of anxiety is likely to be. (Our coping capability seems to be a combination of physical solidity or confidence; emotional stability and optimism; and security of attachment. And these capabilities are fed by a whole range of lifestyle factors, including: healthy diet, regular physical exercise, relaxation/meditation, social connection, adequate sleep, and so on). And how we manage our own performance in our social relationships also has a huge payback, either negative or positive:
“If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.”
Brené Brown
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On the other hand, the more serious the inferred threat is assumed to be, and the less coping capability we sense that we have, then the higher our intensity of anxiety is likely to be.
I see my clients as having a range of anxious-feeling potential, from very low to very high; and I normally work with clients whose anxiety level is high or very high, and my aim is to help them to reduce it until it is low, or very low. But they will never get rid of it completely; nor should they try to do so, as we need each of our basic emotions. What needs to be reformed is how those basic emotions became socialized! We each need to re-learn how to emote, as we become adults, so that we behave appropriately with those people with whom we work, rest and play.
“The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness”.”
Alain de Botton
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And courage often seems to be a big part of the solution to problems of anxiety. But courage is not a mere act of will. It is easier to be courageous when we’ve washed the stress hormones out of our bodies. And when we are well rested, well exercised, and well fed.
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I can help you with your problems of anxiety, in a relatively brief period of time:
If you need my help, then please contact me today:
01422 843 629, from inside the UK.
44 1422 843 629 from outside.
Email: Dr Jim at ABC Counselling.
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Panic problems
I also work with clients whose anxiety gets out of control, and becomes panic – which I conceptualise as anxiety about anxiety about anxiety – spiralling out of control. And I teach panicky clients the following guidelines:
(1) Accept your panic as your own creation (embrace it rather than trying to push it away. You cannot push your own agitated lungs and guts away!)
(2) Recognize that panic is based in your body; so it cannot be eliminated by focusing exclusively on your thoughts or perceptions; though both of those will be a part of the solution. But you have to learn to manage the body-based feelings as the first step!
(3) I can show you how to control the bodily and mental aspects of panic in one session.
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If you need help with problems of anxiety, fear, panic, stress or strain, then contact me today to arrange an appointment in Hebden Bridge, or over the Internet/Webcam (on MS Teams).
Best wishes,
Jim Byrne
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If you need my help, then please contact me today:
01422 843 629, from inside the UK.
44 1422 843 629 from outside.
Email: Dr Jim at ABC Counselling.
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If you decide you are not ready for anxiety counselling/coaching/psychotherapy, then please take a look at the page of information about our book on anxiety:
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ABC Counselling and Psychotherapy, Hebden Bridge 
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