Structured, evidence-based support to separate health worry from medical evidence — delivered by a BABCP accredited therapist and NMC registered mental health nurse, at a pace that respects where you are.
Health Anxiety Disorder is a persistent worry about having, or developing, a serious illness — often despite medical reassurance. It can turn ordinary bodily sensations into sources of fear, and reassurance into something that only helps for a moment.
Treatment is led personally by Arlene Alexander-Price — an NMC registered mental health nurse since 2004 and a BABCP accredited therapist of close to two decades' standing — most often through Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, helping separate worry from evidence.
Explore the signs ↓
A calm, confidential space — treatment paced around you, not the other way round.
Approach
CBT, Matched to You
Session
Up to 60 Minutes
Format
In Person or Virtual
From
£70 per Session
Low Cost rate available for those receiving qualifying state benefits — see full Prices.
Health anxiety can feel like the opposite of hypochondria as a punchline — it's a real and exhausting cycle of noticing a sensation, worrying about it, seeking reassurance, and briefly feeling better before the cycle starts again.
It's not about being dramatic. The fear is genuine, even when medical tests come back clear — which is exactly why it's difficult to simply reason your way out of it.
Select each one to read more — recognising the pattern is often the first step toward doing something about it.
A recurring conviction that ordinary sensations mean something is seriously wrong, even after medical reassurance.
Regularly checking your pulse, skin, lumps or other sensations, looking for signs that something has changed.
Booking frequent GP appointments, researching symptoms online, or asking loved ones to confirm you're not unwell.
Avoiding hospitals, health articles, or conversations about illness because they set off a spiral of worry.
Feeling briefly relieved after a doctor's reassurance, only for the worry to return within hours or days.
Real physical sensations — a racing heart, tension, nausea — that are themselves caused by the anxiety, reinforcing the worry.
Three stages, kept simple and paced around you.
A first conversation to understand how health anxiety is affecting you, and confirm the right approach.
Focused, up to 60-minute sessions, building tools to separate worry from evidence and reduce checking.
Regular check-ins, ending with a clear plan to keep worry from taking over day-to-day life.
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Clients supported at AAP Psychological Therapies since 2004 — many of them starting exactly where you are now.
This is not a crisis service. If you need urgent support, please contact your GP, NHS 111, or the Samaritans on 116 123. In an emergency, call 999.
