Qualified CBT Psychotherapist & Author
Anxiety therapy that gets to what is actually causing it
You look like you are coping. Underneath, you are exhausted. I am Leanne Astbury, a CBT psychotherapist. I help people with anxiety, people pleasing and perfectionism understand what is really driving it, and change it at the root. Online, and face to face in Northwich.
Does any of this sound like you?
- Are you caught in a cycle of keeping everyone else happy, while quietly neglecting what you need?
- Do you set impossibly high standards for yourself, then feel like you never quite meet them?
- Does the fear of getting it wrong keep you stuck, or send your mind racing through everything that might go wrong?
- No matter how much you do, do you still end up feeling like it is not enough?
- Are you left worried, wound up, exhausted, and quietly certain you are failing, however hard you try?
What you have just recognised are the patterns: the pleasing, the overthinking, the impossible standards, the worry that never quite switches off. You have probably spent years learning to manage them. Reading the books, setting the boundaries, talking yourself round.
But what if the patterns were never really the problem?
Underneath them, there is usually something quieter driving it all: the beliefs you formed about yourself, the fears attached to them, and the rules you have lived by to feel safe, accepted or good enough. That is the part almost no one helps you look at. My work is less about managing the surface a little better, and more about understanding what sits beneath it, so we can tend to the roots instead of forever picking at the leaves.
How therapy with me works
We work one to one, online or face to face in Northwich.
We go beneath the anxiety, the people pleasing, the perfectionism, into the beliefs underneath that have been quietly running things, and we change them there. That is why the change lasts.
Sessions are £100 — most people start with a free consultation call.
We use the call to work out whether I am the right fit for you, with no pressure either way.
Book a free consultation callIn their words
★★★★★I've lived with anxiety all my life and spent 28 years on Prozac, but through Leanne's patience, understanding and steady guidance I've reached a place I never imagined. I'm now not taking any medication and stepping forward into a new life, with a clear understanding of where my anxiety began. — Paul, five star Google review
★★★★★After a lifetime of perfectionism that caused daily anxiety and eventually burnout, Leanne helped me understand the behaviour and change my thoughts. My day to day anxiety has gone and I feel so much lighter. — Gemma, five star Google review
You have spent long enough figuring this out on your own.
Booking a call is the hardest part. Everything after that, we do together, and you will not be doing it alone.
Book a free consultation call