Anxiety Support Canterbury Trust (ASC) is the merger on July 1st 2008 of support groups for: - Agoraphobia & Panic Disorder; Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Social Anxiety. Prior to July 1st 2008 we were known as Joint Anxiety Disorders Group.

ASC offers free information, education, resources and inspiration to people who have many types of anxieties and phobias and who live in Christchurch & Nth. Canterbury (New Zealand). We provide topic and education sessions led by qualified subject matter speakers and run separate support group meetings for each of our anxiety consumer groups.

For details of dates and times, please phone our office on (03) 377 9665.

Our organisation is staffed by people who themselves have experience of significant anxieties or phobias. Their journeys are role models of recovery for the people who come to us for help. We passionately believe in every person’s potential to recover and to make anxiety a diminishing part of their life’s experience.

‘Anxiety was crippling me, stopping me from doing so much but
over time and with help I’ve overcome my fears.
My life is now the best it’s ever been.’
John.