Retirement alters established patterns of everyday life, social roles, and forms of participation, thereby placing new demands on older adults’ capacity to understand and regulate their own experiences. This study presents an author-developed andragogical model for working with anxiety symptoms among women of retirement age and examines the outcomes of its application. The study included 60 women, equally allocated to an experimental and a control group. Anxiety was measured before and after implementation of the model. The work with the experimental group was organised into successive stages comprising an authorial fairy tale, the symbolic naming of the anxious thought, sensory and bodily experience in a steam environment, movement and symbolic action in water, and concluding reflection. At baseline, the two groups had identical mean scores (M = 12.50; SD = 1.74). Following completion of the intervention, the mean score in the experimental group decreased to 8.00 points, whereas that of the control group remained virtually unchanged at 12.40 points. The reduction in the experimental group was 4.50 points (36.0%) and was statistically significant, t(29) = 8.44, p < 0.001. The difference in change between the two groups was 4.40 points, p < 0.001, with Hedges’ g = 1.96. The findings indicate the potential for an andragogical approach in which the experience of anxiety is incorporated into a process of recognition, symbolisation, bodily awareness, action, and reflection. Further research is required to establish the durability of the observed change and the reproducibility of the findings in other samples.