**2.1 The components of anxiety**

A complexity of components that have an impact on anxiety have been found, including affective, cognitive, physiological and behavioural factors [12], and this investigative research corroborates the findings of previous work in this field:


**Table 1** shows four interrelated components of anxiety [12].

During the application of both CH and EMDR the principles of affect, cognition, physiology and behaviour as documented in this table are broadly addressed.

**Table 1.** *Components of anxiety.*
