Anxiety disorders are characterized by high levels of anxiety and avoidance of anxiety‐inducing situations and of negative emotions such as anger. Emotion‐focused therapy (EFT) and psychodynamic psychotherapy (PP) have underscored the therapeutic significance of processing and transforming repressed or disowned conflicted or painful emotions. Although PP provides sophisticated means of processing intrapsychic and interpersonal conflict, EFT has empirically tested a set of techniques to access, deepen, symbolize, and transform emotions consistent with current conceptualizations of emotions and memory. Based on our clinical experience, we propose that an integrative emotion‐focused and psychodynamic approach opens new avenues for treating anxiety disorders effectively, and we present a transdiagnostic manual for emotion‐focused psychodynamic psychotherapy.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.