Therapy for anxiety
You don't have to spend your life at war with uncertainty.
You may spend a lot of time worrying about the future, replaying conversations, second-guessing decisions, or feeling like you can never fully relax. Even when things are going well, your mind may search for what could go wrong next. Anxiety can make the world feel unsafe and leave you disconnected from yourself. It often shows up as overthinking, perfectionism, people-pleasing, difficulty trusting yourself, trouble sleeping, or feeling constantly on edge.
Therapy can help you understand the roots of that anxiety and develop a different relationship with uncertainty, fear, and the stories your mind tells you. Sometimes anxiety develops after painful experiences. Other times it grows slowly through years of pressure, self-criticism, responsibility, or feeling like you have to get everything right.
Regardless of where it comes from, anxiety often becomes a way of trying to protect us. The problem is that what once helped us stay safe can eventually keep us from fully engaging in our lives. I integrate EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), attachment-focused therapy, and existential therapy to help clients understand not only why anxiety exists, but how to create lasting change.
Mind Body Connection
Anxiety does not give us the chance to slow down. To ease anxiety means to find new ways to feel safe in our own bodies. This is a practice both in and out of session. We can challenge beliefs all day long to work against anxiety, but a more useful approach is to work with the anxiety to understand it’s fears, goals, and job. Adding in new practices and habits in our day to day lives that create more safety where we may be missing it can help lower our anxiety. When we are stuck in our heads, we must build our connection to the body.
What anxiety looks like:
Constant overthinking
Difficulty relaxing
Panic attacks
Social anxiety
Fear of disappointing others
Perfectionism
Self-doubt
Trouble sleeping
Feeling disconnected from yourself
Difficulty making decisions
How can therapy help?
Therapy can help you better understand the patterns that contribute to anxiety while developing a new relationship with fear, uncertainty, and self-doubt. Together, we'll explore the experiences and beliefs that keep anxiety in place, build greater self-compassion, and help you respond to life's challenges with more flexibility and confidence. Rather than simply managing symptoms, our work will focus on creating lasting change so you can feel more present, connected, and engaged in your life.
You don't need to have everything figured out before reaching out. Whether you're struggling with chronic worry, panic, perfectionism, or a persistent sense that something isn't right, you don’t need to figure it out alone.
