Anxiety Therapy Online
Dandelion Psychotherapy offers online therapy for anxiety with psychotherapist Yoshita Bhargava, for adults anywhere in India and Indians living abroad. Weekly sessions over Google Meet draw on Transactional Analysis and mindfulness to work on what drives the anxiety, not only its symptoms. It starts with a free 15-minute intro call, where fees are also discussed.
Anxiety is your nervous system's threat response firing when there is no immediate threat. It evolved to keep you alive — the problem is that it cannot distinguish between genuine danger and an unanswered email that makes your stomach drop. Therapy doesn't eliminate anxiety; it changes your relationship with it and addresses what's actually driving it.
When Anxiety Needs Attention
Persistent Worry
A background hum of anxiety that doesn't switch off — worrying about work, relationships, health, or the future even when things are objectively fine.
Physical Symptoms
Racing heart, tight chest, shallow breathing, nausea, muscle tension, or headaches that accompany anxious thoughts or appear without clear cause.
Avoidance Patterns
Cancelling plans, procrastinating on important tasks, or staying within a shrinking comfort zone to avoid situations that trigger anxiety.
Sleep & Concentration
Difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or concentrating during the day. A mind that won't quiet down, especially at night.
Wondering how much of this sounds like you? The anxiety self-check is a two-minute reflection on how anxiety has been showing up lately. It isn't a diagnosis, but it can help you put words to what you bring to a first session.
How I Work With Anxiety
In Transactional Analysis, anxiety is often the activation of the Adapted Child ego state — the part that learned, in an earlier environment, that something was dangerous or unacceptable. That alert state made sense then. The difficulty is that it travels forward in time, activating in situations that share only the emotional flavour of the original danger.
Therapy traces the link between the present anxiety and the historical experience it echoes. Understanding whichscript beliefs fuel the anxiety — "I am not safe," "Something bad is about to happen," "I must be perfect to be acceptable" can help change feel more lasting.
That last belief is what TA calls the Be Perfect driver. If it sounds familiar, I've written about the five drivers and how anxiety rides on them, and about the early "don't" messages underneath. When the worry is mostly looping thoughts, therapy for overthinking goes into that pattern.
Transactional Analysis
Identifying which ego state the anxiety operates from, which injunctions and drivers fuel it, and which life script beliefs keep it in place.
Working With Parts
Getting to know the anxious parts of you, like the one that worries to keep you safe or the one that criticises, so they can loosen their grip. This part of my work is IFS-informed; I'm on an introductory Internal Family Systems course, not IFS-trained.
Mindfulness
Building the capacity to observe anxious thoughts and sensations without being consumed by them. Creating space between stimulus and response.
Somatic Awareness
Attending to how anxiety lives in the body — the early physical signals that indicate activation. Learning to notice them creates a window for choice.
Panic Attacks: What They Are and What Helps
A panic attack is a sudden wave of fear or a sense of losing control, often when there is no clear danger. Your heart pounds, you sweat or shake, breathing gets hard, and you may feel dizzy, sick, detached from your body, or sure you are about to die. Most panic attacks last between 5 and 20 minutes (NHS). They feel dangerous, but a panic attack is not life threatening. Chest pain has other causes too, so if you have never had it checked, see a doctor.
One attack doesn't mean you have panic disorder. Panic disorder means attacks that keep coming back without warning, along with ongoing worry about the next one or changes to your life to avoid them (NIMH).
During an attack, the NHS suggests staying where you are if you can, breathing slowly and deeply, and reminding yourself that it will pass. The physiological sigh is one simple way to slow your breath down.
Talking therapy and medicine are the main treatments for panic disorder. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is a commonly used, research-supported psychotherapy for it (NIMH). In my work we look at when the attacks come, the body signals just before them, and the patterns that keep the fear going, using the TA and body-awareness work described above. If medication might help, a psychiatrist can prescribe it, and therapy can run alongside.
Online, Across India
Sessions of online individual therapy are held via Google Meet — accessible from anywhere in India and internationally. For people managing anxiety, the online format often reduces the barrier to starting: no commute, no waiting room, no performance of having yourself together before walking through a door.
Consistency matters enormously in anxiety treatment. The regularity of a weekly session is part of what creates change. Online makes that consistency genuinely sustainable — whether you are in Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Dehradun, or anywhere else with a stable connection.
My practice is queer affirmative and welcomes all identities, orientations, and backgrounds without assumption or judgment.
Free tools from Dandelion for the moments between sessions: when anxiety spikes, the physiological sigh is a two-breath way to settle your nervous system, and box breathing is a steadier rhythm for before a stressful meeting. For anxious thoughts that loop, writing them down in Dandelion Reflect, our free private journal, can take some of the charge out of them. These support therapy; they don't replace it.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does online therapy for anxiety work?
Sessions are weekly over Google Meet, at one fixed slot. We look at how the anxiety shows up and what keeps it in place, using Transactional Analysis, mindfulness and attention to how anxiety lives in the body. Therapy doesn't eliminate anxiety; it changes your relationship with it and addresses what's driving it.
What's the difference between a panic attack and an anxiety attack?
"Panic attack" has a clinical definition; "anxiety attack" doesn't, and people use it for anything from a bad spell of worry to a full panic attack. A panic attack is a sudden wave of intense fear with strong physical symptoms, such as a racing heart, trembling or shortness of breath, and it can come with no clear trigger. The NHS says most last between 5 and 20 minutes. What people call an anxiety attack is more often worry that builds over hours or days around something you can name.
How much does anxiety therapy cost?
Session fees are discussed during the free 15-minute intro call, with no obligation to continue.
Can a therapist prescribe medication for anxiety?
No. I'm a psychotherapist, not a psychiatrist, so I don't prescribe. If medication might be part of your picture, see a psychiatrist; talk therapy can run alongside it.
Can I join from outside India?
Yes. Sessions are online, so you can join from anywhere with a stable internet connection, and we find a weekly slot that fits both time zones.
What if my anxiety feels like a crisis right now?
Weekly therapy is not a crisis service. If you are in danger of harming yourself or can't keep yourself safe, call your local emergency services, or Tele-MANAS on 14416 in India, which is free and answers around the clock.
Ready to start?
Begin with a free 15-minute introductory call. No commitment, no pressure — just a conversation about whether this could help.
Book a Free Intro Call