When Love Doesn’t Always Feel Safe
You like them.
Maybe you really, really like them.
And somehow, that makes everything feel more complicated.
A delayed reply can make you wonder if something has changed.
A different tone can make you replay the conversation.
A cancelled plan can feel like rejection.
A little distance can suddenly feel like the beginning of the end.
You might find yourself asking:
“Do they still like me?”
“Why haven’t they replied?”
“Are they losing interest?”
“Did I do something wrong?”
“Why am I the one who always cares more?”
Sometimes you know you’re overthinking.
But knowing that doesn’t necessarily make the thoughts stop.
Anxious in Love is a psychology-informed workshop about understanding what happens when romantic relationships activate uncertainty, insecurity, fear or a strong need for reassurance.
We’ll explore attachment, emotional needs, relationship anxiety, reassurance-seeking and the patterns that can develop when you’re trying to feel certain about something that inherently contains uncertainty.
This isn’t about becoming less caring.
It’s not about “being less needy.”
And it’s not about convincing yourself that you shouldn’t need anyone.
It’s about understanding your anxiety without letting it run your relationship.
Is this workshop for you?
This workshop may be helpful if you…
✓ Overthink your partner’s texts, tone, behaviour, or changes in communication.
✓ Worry that your partner is losing interest even when you don’t have clear evidence.
✓ Need frequent reassurance that everything is okay.
✓ Feel anxious when your partner takes longer to reply.
✓ Find yourself checking for signs that something has changed.
✓ Replay conversations and wonder if you said or did something wrong.
✓ Feel insecure about how much your partner cares about you.
✓ Compare your relationship to other people’s relationships.
✓ Worry that your partner might leave, lose interest, or choose someone else.
✓ Feel particularly unsettled when your partner needs space or independence.
✓ Become preoccupied with whether the relationship is “okay.”
✓ Find yourself testing, checking, asking, or seeking reassurance when anxious.
✓ Struggle to distinguish between intuition and anxiety.
✓ Feel like your relationship takes up more mental space than you’d like.
✓ Want to understand your relationship patterns rather than simply blaming yourself for them.
Meet Your Facilitators
Akanksha Mehta
Founder, Mind Soul Bridge
Akanksha is a Counselling Psychology postgraduate (M.Sc, Christ University) with 600+ therapy sessions across EAP, private practice and relationship counselling. She works with individuals and couples around anxiety, stress, burnout, trauma and relationship concerns through an evidence-based, trauma-informed, integrative approach and has facilitated 100+ mental-wellbeing workshops in corporate and community settings.
Riddhima Nigam
Founder, Bekhauf Panchi
Riddhima is a Counselling Psychologist and the founder of Bekhauf Panchi by Riddhima. She works with adolescents and adults around emotional overwhelm, stress, self-doubt, relationship concerns, identity and life transitions through a human-centred, trauma-informed and integrative approach. Her work focuses on creating emotionally safe, collaborative spaces that help individuals understand their experiences, reconnect with their strengths and values and develop greater clarity and self-trust. She also works with adolescents around developmental, emotional, academic and social challenges.
What you’ll learn?
Why Relationships Can Trigger Anxiety
- Understand why romantic relationships can bring up fear, uncertainty, insecurity and emotional reactions that may feel bigger than the situation itself.
Attachment & Your Relationship Patterns
- Explore how attachment experiences and expectations can shape the way you experience closeness, distance, reassurance and uncertainty.
The Reassurance-Seeking Cycle
- Understand how checking, asking, analysing or seeking reassurance may temporarily reduce anxiety while sometimes keeping the cycle going.
Anxiety, Intuition & Overthinking
- Explore how to pause and differentiate between a genuine relationship concern, an anxious thought and the urge to find certainty.
Building Security Without Losing Yourself
- Learn ways to respond to relationship anxiety while staying connected to your own needs, identity, boundaries and life outside the relationship.
What you’ll take away?
A Relationship Anxiety Map
- Identify the situations, thoughts and behaviours that tend to activate anxiety for you in romantic relationships.
An Attachment Reflection
- Reflect on how you tend to respond to closeness, distance, uncertainty and emotional availability in relationships.
An “Anxiety or Information?” Check-In
- Learn questions that can help you slow down before immediately treating an anxious thought as evidence.
Reassurance & Communication Prompts
- Explore healthier ways to communicate emotional needs without turning every anxious moment into a relationship test.
Self-Soothing & Regulation Practices
- Take away practical ways to create space between an emotional trigger and an immediate reaction.
Lifetime Resources
- Resources to support your learning beyond the workshop
What happens during the 90 minutes?
1- Understand: Interactive teaching
- Explore relationship anxiety, attachment, uncertainty and why romantic relationships can activate such strong emotional responses.
2- Notice: Guided self-reflection
- Identify your own triggers, fears, thoughts and behaviours when you feel uncertain or disconnected.
3- Decode: Understand the cycle
- Look at how anxiety can move from a trigger to overthinking, reassurance-seeking, temporary relief and another wave of doubt.
4- Practise: Respond differently
- Try practical ways to pause, regulate, communicate and respond without immediately acting from anxiety.
5- Ask: Live Q&A
- Ask questions during and after the session.
Why this workshop is different?
Because “You’re Just Overthinking” Doesn’t Explain Much.
This workshop is…
Not About Calling Yourself “Needy”
Wanting closeness, reassurance and emotional security are human needs. We explore when anxiety begins influencing how those needs are expressed.
Not About Blaming Your Partner
Relationship anxiety can exist even in caring relationships. We focus on understanding your internal experience without automatically making your partner responsible for it.
Not About Becoming Emotionally Independent
The goal isn’t to stop needing people. It’s to build a relationship with yourself that exists alongside your relationship with someone else.
Beyond “Just Trust Them”
Trust is important, but telling yourself to simply trust someone doesn’t explain why uncertainty can feel so difficult in the first place.
Psychology-Informed
We’ll explore attachment, anxiety, reassurance-seeking, emotional regulation, relationship patterns and communication through a counselling psychology lens.
Focused on Understanding, Not Labelling
Attachment concepts can offer useful language for understanding patterns, but they aren’t personality labels or fixed identities.
Compassionate, Not Prescriptive
You don’t have to leave the workshop with a diagnosis, relationship decision or perfect answer. The goal is greater awareness and choice.
Frequently asked questions.
Do I need prior therapy experience?
- No. These sessions are for everyone, whether or not you’ve ever spoken to a therapist.
Will I have to share personal experiences?
- Never. Participation in discussion is always optional. You’re welcome to simply listen and participate privately.
Will the session be recorded?
- Yes. Recording will be available for a week after the workshop.
Can I ask questions?
- Yes. There will be a live Q&A, and you can ask questions through the chat.
Will I receive resources afterward?
- Yes. Worksheets and a recommended resource list will be shared on WhatsApp after the session.
Can beginners attend?
- Absolutely. No background in psychology is needed.
Is there an age requirement?
- Yes. This workshop is for couples and individuals aged 18 and above.
How do I get the joining link?
- Your Google Meet link and reminders will be sent to you on WhatsApp after you register.
Important Information
Before you register
- This is a psychoeducational workshop. It is not a substitute for psychotherapy or crisis support.
- Participation in discussion is always optional.
- You do not have to disclose anything personal during the session.
- Please join from a quiet, private space where possible.
- Worksheets and resources will be shared on WhatsApp after the session.
- Refund/cancellation policy:
We understand that plans can change. If you need to cancel your registration, you may request a full refund up to 24 hours before the workshop begins.
For cancellations made less than 24 hours before the workshop, or after the workshop has started, no refund will be provided.
To request a refund, please contact us at least 24 hours before the scheduled start time of the workshop.
If you are in distress or crisis, you can contact:
- Tele-MANAS: 1800-89-14416 | 14416
- iCall (TISS): 9152987821