The Anatomy of panic -Coaching

When the Body Sounds the Alarm

Confidential coaching for leaders, managers, and executives navigating anxiety and panic.

You are competent. Highly. You have led teams, closed deals, delivered under conditions most people never see. From the outside, none of this shows.

From the inside, something else is happening. The chest that tightens before a board meeting you’ve prepared for a hundred times. The 3 AM wake-up that will not release you back to sleep. The sudden, disorienting wave in a meeting where nothing was even wrong. The dread on Sunday evening. The heart rate that spikes at an email preview. The strange, embarrassing fact that the higher you have risen, the harder it has become to breathe.

Anxiety and panic in senior professionals are far more common than the culture of senior professional life allows anyone to say. You are not broken. You are not weak. You are carrying something that has a name, a mechanism, and a path through.

What This Work Is

A confidential, one-to-one engagement designed specifically for people whose professional life cannot pause while they address this — and whose professional life is often the exact context in which it surfaces.

It is not therapy. I am not treating a psychiatric condition. If what you are carrying needs clinical care, I will help you find it, and if you are already in clinical care, this work sits alongside it in full coordination with your practitioner.

What it is: a structured coaching container built on the clinical models I trained in — CBT, DBT, EMDR-informed practice, Schema Therapy, and Clinical Hypnotherapy — translated into a format that works for people running businesses, teams, and lives. Where the work is about equipping you to understand what is happening in your nervous system, catch the pattern before it fires, and rebuild a calmer, more spacious relationship with the pressure your role carries.

The Nine-Month Container

Nine months, because anxiety and panic do not resolve on a quarterly timeline, and because the nervous system needs to experience the new pattern across multiple cycles of real work before it holds.

Twelve one-to-one sessions of 75 minutes, held over Zoom. The first four sessions weekly, to establish traction quickly. The next four fortnightly, as regulation strengthens. The final four monthly, to consolidate and prepare you to be your own steady presence past our work.

A short private line between sessions — WhatsApp or email — for the moments a panic wave arrives and you need something in your hand within the hour, not next Tuesday.

Personalized hypnotherapy and nervous-system regulation recordings, tailored to you and refined across the engagement.

A signed copy of my book, The Anatomy of Panic: Stories, Science, and Healing from the Inside Out, sent to you before our first session. The book is the clinical foundation the coaching draws on; having it in your hands from the beginning means our sessions are not spent teaching — they are spent working.

A closing written review — private, honest, yours to keep.

Who This Is Built For

• Executives and senior leaders whose anxiety is quietly costing decision quality, sleep, or presence
• Founders and business owners carrying the weight that does not come off at 6 PM
• Managers moving into a bigger role where the responsibility has begun to arrive faster than the nervous system can absorb
• High-performing employees whose anxiety has become louder than their ability to manage it privately
• Anyone in a professional role who has had a first panic attack and is quietly frightened it will happen again

Every conversation is confidential. Nothing appears in any HR system. Nothing is disclosed to your employer, even if your employer is funding the work.

Investment

$6,900 for the nine-month engagement, all inclusive of the twelve sessions, between-session access, the personalised recordings, the book, and the closing review.

For organizations sponsoring the work for a leader on their team, a scoping document for your CHRO or Head of People is available on request. The engagement can be invoiced through Learning & Development, Executive Development, or Employee Assistance budgets depending on your organization’s structure.

When We Begin

New engagements open from Monday, September 15, 2026, with a limited number of spaces each month to protect the depth of the work.

The first step is a complimentary 25-minute conversation — no cost, no pressure. A chance to be heard, briefly, by someone who understands both what you’re carrying and the world you are carrying it in. If this is not the right container for you, I will tell you honestly, and help you find what is.

Contact us for more details: daniela@danielaaneva.com

On the book as a gift. I positioned this deliberately as an integral part of the coaching (foundation for the work) rather than a marketing giveaway. It changes the meaning of the gift entirely — from “bonus” to “the two of us will be working from the same page from day one.” That framing is worth more to the client and more to your book’s positioning.

On what I intentionally did not include. I have not listed specific “techniques” or “outcomes” (breathing exercises, sleep improvement, panic-attack elimination). Language that promises to fix or eliminate anxiety symptoms creates legal and clinical risk for a coach — particularly for someone with your credential visibility. The current language stays on the right side of that line: understanding, regulating, rebuilding a relationship with the pressure, coordination with clinical care where needed. If your legal setup requires a formal disclaimer paragraph, I can add one, but the phrasing above is written to hold up without one.