Anxiety learning hub
Understanding anxiety and treatment options
Understand the patterns behind anxiety, explore CBT-based skills, and consider what kind of support may fit your needs.
Updated 15 September 2026 · General information; individual suitability is assessed separately
Finding anxiety treatment in Sydney
If anxiety is limiting your life, an assessment can help clarify what is happening and which support fits. The guides below explain the ideas behind our CBT group and help you prepare questions about treatment. They do not determine a diagnosis or recommend the same format for everyone.
Psychological treatment options can differ according to the problem and the level of support needed. CBT is among the approaches used for anxiety; assessment is important when choosing a treatment plan. NICE: Treatment options for generalised anxiety
Managing Anxiety
- Location
- Macquarie Park · near North Ryde Metro
- Format
- 8 weeks · 2 hours weekly
Adults 18+ · maximum 10 - Program lead
- Sarah Jacob, Clinical Psychologist
- Full program fee
- $1,600
THE EIGHT-WEEK PROGRAM
Your eight-week CBT anxiety group program.
Each week introduces a practical part of managing anxiety, with opportunities to learn, discuss and practise—and tasks to try between sessions.
01
What is anxiety?
Understand anxiety, the anxiety cycle and when to seek support. See how understanding anxiety fits into our eight-week CBT group in Sydney.
02
CBT for anxiety
earn how CBT approaches anxious thinking, avoidance and practice, and explore a structured psychologist-led anxiety group in Macquarie Park, Sydney.
03
What to expect from anxiety group therapy
Explore how the Managing Anxiety CBT group works: structured sessions, minimal personal disclosure, between-session practice and suitability screening.
04
Group therapy or individual therapy?
Compare the format, privacy, scope and practical demands of our anxiety CBT group with individual therapy, and prepare questions for suitability screening.
05
Exposure therapy for anxiety
Understand graded exposure, fear hierarchies and behavioural experiments, and how these topics fit Week 5 of the Managing Anxiety CBT group.
06
Avoidance and safety behaviours
Learn how avoidance and safety behaviours can keep anxiety going, and explore the Week 4 focus of our structured CBT anxiety group in Sydney.
07
Worry and uncertainty
Explore excessive worry, problem solving and intolerance of uncertainty, and see how these topics fit our eight-week CBT anxiety program.
08
Managing physical anxiety
Understand the physical side of anxiety and the program’s focus on breathing, grounding, mindfulness, sleep and lifestyle factors.
09
Medicare rebates for anxiety groups
Understand Medicare referral requirements, eligibility and rebate checks for the two-hour anxiety group therapy program in Macquarie Park.
How the learning connects to the eight weeks
1. Understanding anxiety: the cycle, physical arousal and your own pattern.
2. Thoughts and anxiety: recognising anxious predictions.
3. Working with anxious thinking: cognitive restructuring and probability and cost thinking.
4. Avoidance and safety behaviours: understanding what maintains anxiety.
5. Facing fears: graded exposure and behavioural experiments.
6. Worry and uncertainty: worry postponement and problem solving.
7. Managing the body: breathing, grounding, mindfulness, sleep and lifestyle factors.
8. Staying well: relapse prevention and an individual anxiety management plan.
The final week brings the skills together into a plan for continuing after the course. The topic guides explain the curriculum; they are not a substitute for the sessions or individual treatment.
Explore the local program
The Managing Anxiety Group Program is an in-person course for adults, delivered at Macquarie Park by Clinical Psychologist Sarah Jacob. It includes eight 2-hour sessions, a maximum of 10 participants and structured practice between meetings.
View the Sydney anxiety group overview, plan your visit, or read information for referrers. A free suitability screening precedes every placement.
DISCUSS YOUR NEXT STEP
Start with a free suitability screening.
Call the team to discuss whether the Managing Anxiety Group Program fits your needs. An enquiry does not commit you to joining.
