To improve health anxiety, you need to first understand how your thoughts, beliefs and behaviors are keeping your anxiety alive and well. This book is your step-by-step guide to free yourself from the debilitating fear of illness and death with CBT.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has helped hundreds of thousands of people with health anxiety across the globe. It has helped my clients; it has helped me; and it can help you.
Each chapter offers a series of CBT lessons on how to address health anxiety by changing problematic beliefs and behaviors such as: Black and white thinking Catastrophizing Tunnel vision And moreYou'll learn how to recognize and escape these harmful thought patterns. Armed with these tools, you will be able to free yourself from constant web searches of symptoms of deadly illnesses and costly trips to the doctor that turned out to be just panic. Each CBT lesson is packed with raw, vivid and sometimes humorous anecdotes of real-life struggles with health anxiety experienced by me and my clients.Dr. Brittney Chesworth is a licensed psychotherapist with a private practice and an award-winning researcher in the treatment of mental health issues, mental health influencer and expert author for Psychology Today.S he has over 15 years of experience treating clients with anxiety in child welfare, hospice, hospital, university, community mental health and private practice settings. Trained by the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy, Dr. Chesworth teaches graduate and undergraduate students and mental health professionals on the use of CBT, exposure therapy and other evidence-based interventions. In 2020, Dr. Chesworth received the UNC-Chapel Hill Impact Award for the positive impact of her research in North Carolina.
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