Therapy for Anxiety
If any of this sounds familiar, you're not alone in it:
“I'm just chronically overwhelmed, and irritated.”
“I can't settle, even when I know I'm safe.”
“Am I overreacting? I can't tell anymore.”
“I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.”
“I wake up at 3am with my mind spinning about everything at once.”
“I've tried everything and I still don't know what I'm supposed to do.”
Anxiety like this isn't really about one thing. It's not solved by a breathing app or a better planner. It's a body that learned, at some point, that it wasn't safe to relax — and a mind that's been trying to stay ahead of the next problem ever since. You can know, logically, that you're okay, and still feel like you're bracing for impact. That gap between what you know and what your body believes is where I work.
Anxious. Exhausted. Overwhelmed. Irritated. Done.
Everything feels overwhelming, and the only feeling you really notice anymore is exhaustion. You care about your job and your relationships, but none of the satisfaction you used to get from those things seems to light you up like they did before, and now it doesn’t even feel like you are doing what you care about as well as you could.
You are noticing yourself snapping at the other people in your life and sometimes shutting down completely. You might be feeling some tension in the relationships closest to you, and you can’t remember the last time things felt good between you. And outside the house? You might be avoiding people because it feels like a lot of work to fit in and it’s more of a relief to stay home and get lost in your phone, tv, or something else.
You know you need a change, and it feels hard.
You know you’ve been needing to do something different, and honestly the work to change just feels so. goddamn. hard. It feels deeper than just needing to vent. This isn’t your first rodeo, and you’ve probably tried therapy before. It felt good to talk things out, but you aren’t sure it helped you make a lot of lasting changes. You want a space where you can let down all walls and masks and really feel understood - even if that feels truly frightening.
I help when you look fine on the outside, but inside you are falling apart.
I don't start by trying to talk you out of the anxiety. I start by getting curious about it — what it's protecting, what it's afraid will happen if it stops. Anxious parts usually aren't the problem; they're overworking because something else needed protecting once, and never got the memo that it's over.
From there, we track how the anxiety actually lives in your body — the tight chest, the racing thoughts, the inability to land anywhere — and build ways to either soothe that energy or let it move through, instead of white-knuckling your way past it. Alongside that, I use EMDR to target the specific beliefs underneath the anxiety: I have to get this right, something bad is coming, I can't trust myself. Those beliefs usually didn't start with the thing you're anxious about now — they started somewhere earlier, and they'll keep firing until we go back and shift them at the source.
This work often overlaps with neurodivergence and complex trauma — if that's part of your story too, you'll probably see yourself on more than one page here.
If you're tired of managing anxiety and want to actually get underneath it, I'd like to hear from you.