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What is health anxiety?
Health anxiety involves persistent worry that something is wrong with your body — even when there’s no clear evidence. You may feel pulled to check symptoms, seek reassurance, or research illnesses online. For some, the fear is constant; for others, it comes in waves that are hard to explain or control.
Even if tests come back normal, the worry often returns. You may feel ashamed of your fear or frustrated that no one understands how real it feels. But beneath the surface of the health concern, something else may be pressing to speak.
We’re psychoanalytically informed, which means we take the symptom seriously — not only as a sign of fear, but as something more meaningful. Health anxiety may be expressing distress that hasn’t yet found another outlet.
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What causes health anxiety?
Health anxiety may follow a personal or family illness. But it also appears in people with no clear medical history. The body becomes a focus — a place where unspoken fears, conflicts, or helplessness gather.
From a psychoanalytic perspective, we don’t treat this as irrational. We ask: What is the personal logic of the worry? What is it speaking of? What is it displacing?
Often, health anxiety forms around something deeper — fear of loss, a wish for control, or unresolved grief. It isn’t simply about the body. It’s about how the body becomes a way of managing what cannot yet be thought.
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How we work
We don’t simply offer reassurance or cognitive reframing, which can be short lived. Instead, we listen — carefully and without judgment — to what the symptom is doing.
In psychotherapy we’re not looking to stop the anxiety through surface-level fixes. Instead, we make space to speak the fear and to trace how it functions, when it first appeared, and what it may be defending against.
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Is therapy for health anxiety right for me?
You don’t need a diagnosis to begin.
You may find yourself checking symptoms, avoiding certain environments, or feeling stuck in cycles of fear and relief. You may know the fear doesn’t make sense — and still feel gripped by it.
Whether this is recent or long-standing, therapy can offer a different kind of space. Not just to convince you you’re fine, but to listen to what the anxiety is saying — and help it speak in another way.
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