The Anxious Person: CBT and REBT Methods for a Calm Life Without Panic Attacks, Anxiety, and False Fears

Drawing on CBT and REBT approaches, the author suggests not fighting fears, but learning to accept them and recalibrate habitual automatic reactions in order to regain calm and control over everyday life.

Pavel Fedorenko is a Master of Psychology, a certified CBT and REBT therapist, CEO of the Cognitive Psychotherapy Clinic, CEO of the Institute of Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy, and founder of the Academy of Healthy Thinking.

Your heart is pounding, you can’t catch your breath, your legs go weak — and all of this in the middle of ordinary activities: in a line, in a store, on the subway, at home... Tired of living with the feeling that “something is wrong with me,” constantly waiting for “the worst,” and keeping Corvalol close at hand “just in case”?

This book is your step-by-step route to liberation. Its author, Pavel Fedorenko, is a psychologist and psychotherapist who himself experienced panic attacks and agoraphobia and, over years of practice, helped thousands of people regain control of their lives.

In the book “An Anxious Person,” you will find a step-by-step program based on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT), adapted for self-guided work. You will learn not to suppress anxiety, but to accept it, rewire your brain’s reactions, and reclaim the freedom to live — without panic, imagined fears, or self-imposed limits.

• You will understand how anxiety works and why attempts to fight it only intensify fear.
• You will master the “recalibration” of thinking and reactions using scientifically based CBT and REBT tools.
• You will stop avoiding familiar situations and begin, step by step, to return to what once scared you.
• You will understand what happens to the body during a panic attack and stop fearing your own sensations.