Line of Control | @caroline-cavanagh | The Anxiety Alchemist

22 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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Anxiety specialist Caroline Cavanagh presents the Line of Control model: anxiety rises as your sense of control drops, peaking when you feel completely powerless. Her therapy work centers on helping clients reclaim control over their thoughts, goals, and behaviors to lower anxiety.

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So if you think about a line, at this end we've got complete control, at this end completely out of control. When we're up here, full control, there'll be no anxiety, whereas if we come down here, the more you lose control, the more anxious you get. And when you're completely out of control, then that's when anxiety is at its highest. And so a lot of the work that I do as an anxiety specialist, as a hypnotherapist, is finding ways to take back that control. And that may be recognising that you can control your thoughts, you can control your intentions, you can control your behaviour. That brings the anxiety down.