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Health Anxiety Therapy Calgary
Support for Illness Anxiety Disorder & Persistent Worry About Health and Illness
Health anxiety involves ongoing worry about physical health, illness, or medical conditions. Individuals experiencing health anxiety may frequently monitor bodily sensations, search for symptoms online, or seek reassurance from doctors or loved ones. Even when medical tests show no serious concern, the worry may continue.
At Ten Psychology, we provide health anxiety therapy in Calgary designed to help teens and adults understand the patterns that maintain health-related worry while developing strategies that reduce anxiety and restore confidence in daily life.
Our Approach to Health Anxiety Therapy
At Ten Psychology, health anxiety therapy focuses on helping individuals change the patterns of thinking and behaviour that maintain anxiety about health.
Evidence-based approaches such as cognitive behavioural therapy help individuals challenge catastrophic interpretations of bodily sensations and gradually reduce reassurance-seeking behaviours.
Therapy focuses on helping individuals respond to uncertainty with greater confidence and calm.
Understanding Health Anxiety
Health anxiety often involves heightened awareness of normal bodily sensations. Small physical changes—such as headaches, fatigue, or muscle tension—may quickly trigger fears about serious illness.
These worries can become exhausting and interfere with everyday life, even when there is no underlying medical concern.
Health anxiety often becomes reinforced by reassurance-seeking and repeated checking behaviours. While these behaviours may temporarily reduce anxiety, they can strengthen the cycle of worry over time.
Therapy focuses on helping individuals understand how these patterns develop and learn strategies that reduce the need for reassurance while building confidence in responding to physical sensations.
COMMON SIGNS WE HELP WITH
Frequent Worry About Having a Serious Medical Condition (Hypochondriasis)
Repeatedly Checking the
Body For Signs of Illness
Searching Symptoms
Online For Reassurance
Difficulty Trusting Medical
Results or Reassurance
Avoiding Situations
That Trigger Health Fears
Persistent Anxiety
About Physical Sensations
Start Health Anxiety Therapy in East Calgary Today, Where Ten Is Just the Beginning
Health anxiety can feel overwhelming and difficult to manage alone. Therapy can help individuals reduce constant worry, develop healthier responses to physical sensations, and regain a greater sense of ease in daily life.
Our team works to match each client with a psychologist who understands anxiety and can provide structured, supportive care.
Ten Psychology provides health anxiety therapy for teens and adults in East Calgary and nearby communities including Bridgeland, Inglewood, Crescent Heights, Tuxedo Park, Riverbend, and surrounding neighbourhoods.
Appointments are available in person and through online therapy for clients across Alberta.
