Evidence-Based Anxiety Treatment
Health Anxiety Therapy in Indianapolis
Health anxiety can make normal body sensations, medical uncertainty, and everyday symptoms feel frightening and overwhelming. At Sommer Psychology Group, we provide evidence-based therapy for health anxiety, helping clients reduce obsessive worry, body checking, reassurance-seeking, and fear of illness while building greater confidence in their ability to tolerate uncertainty and anxiety.
Health anxiety involves excessive worry or fear related to health, illness, physical symptoms, or medical conditions. Individuals may become highly focused on body sensations such as headaches, dizziness, heart rate changes, stomach discomfort, tingling, fatigue, or pain and fear these sensations are signs of a serious medical problem.
Many people with health anxiety engage in compulsive behaviors such as repeatedly researching symptoms online, checking their body for signs of illness, seeking reassurance from doctors or loved ones, monitoring physical sensations, avoiding medical information, or constantly scanning for signs that something is wrong.
Although reassurance may provide temporary relief, the cycle of checking, researching, and over-monitoring often increases anxiety and uncertainty over time. Health anxiety can become emotionally exhausting and interfere with work, relationships, sleep, and daily functioning.
Our therapists use evidence-based approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Exposure Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and evidence-based interventions designed to help clients better understand anxiety patterns, reduce reassurance-seeking and compulsive checking behaviors, challenge catastrophic thinking, and build greater tolerance for uncertainty related to health and physical sensations.
Treatment focuses on helping clients respond differently to fear and uncertainty so that anxiety no longer controls daily life.
We offer health anxiety therapy in Indianapolis and secure online anxiety therapy across Indiana.
Meet Our Anxiety & OCD Therapists
At Sommer Psychology Group, our specialized team of clinicians are dedicated to supporting individuals struggling with anxiety, OCD, and related disorders. We offer comprehensive care through assessment and evaluation, evidence-based therapy and treatment, education, and ongoing consultation.
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Why Work With Sommer Psychology Group
We understand that life can sometimes feel overwhelming—whether it’s managing anxiety, balancing responsibilities, or facing the fear of the unknown. As specialists who work with individuals who struggle with anxiety, OCD, and related disorders, we aim to help you find your way forward.
Our approach is solutions-focused and evidence-based, designed to meet your unique needs and help you achieve lasting change.
At Sommer Psychology Group, we believe in the power of quality care. That means giving you dedicated, thoughtful, and individualized support, with the flexibility of virtual sessions that fit into your life, wherever you are.
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