Looking for any ideas. 

I’m a 28f, just diagnosed with high blood pressure. I have anxiety when I visit doctors offices since as long as I can remember, so any mildly elevated readings were brushed off, or would be normal at end of visit recheck. but more recently I have true hypertension, even some of my readings at home are high. Was started on low dose meds, now am having frequent follow up visits to check progress. 

Previously I only had to go to doctor once a year so I would just get over the anxiety and deal. now that I’m going more frequently and my anxiety is causing my BP to elevate even further, I’m looking for any advice to help. 

The irony is that I’m a healthcare provider myself, but even before I knew this was what I wanted to do as my career I was an anxious patient, and being a provider hasn’t improved that anxiety much at all, especially now that I have my BP to worry about. 

Any tips from others? Im looking into therapy once I have better benefits as I have a little mild anxiety in general and think I could benefit from it. The only time I feel moderate-severe anxiety is at doctors visits. I will consider mediation change if my dr deems necessary but I’m already taking meds. 

Any other advice is greatly appreciated. :)