Therapy for Anxiety
Helping you feel steady when your mind won’t slow down.
Anxiety can feel relentless.
Your thoughts race.
Your body feels on edge.
You replay conversations.
You imagine worst-case scenarios.
You second-guess yourself constantly.
Sometimes anxiety looks like panic.
Sometimes it looks like perfectionism.
Sometimes it looks like being the “responsible one” who holds everything together.
If your nervous system rarely feels settled, therapy can help.
What Anxiety Can Feel Like
Anxiety isn’t just worry.
It can show up as:
Constant overthinking
Tightness in your chest or stomach
Trouble sleeping
Difficulty relaxing, even when things are “fine”
Irritability or restlessness
Fear of disappointing others
Avoiding situations that feel overwhelming
Feeling like you’re always behind or not doing enough
For many adults, anxiety is deeply tied to attachment patterns, early relational experiences, and long-standing pressure to perform or please.
It often makes sense once we understand what your system has been protecting you from.
Why Anxiety Develops
Anxiety is not weakness.
It’s your nervous system trying to anticipate danger and keep you safe.
It can develop from:
Unpredictable or emotionally inconsistent environments
High expectations or conditional approval
Chronic stress
Past relational wounds
Experiences of criticism or rejection
Trauma (big or small)
Over time, your system may have learned that staying hyper-aware, hyper-responsible, or hyper-prepared is the safest way to move through the world.
Therapy isn’t about shutting anxiety down.
It’s about helping your body and mind learn that you are safe now.
How I Approach Anxiety Therapy
My work with anxiety is relational, experiential, and grounded in evidence-based approaches.
We don’t just “manage symptoms.”
We understand them.
Depending on your needs, we may draw from:
Internal Family Systems (Parts Work)
To explore the anxious parts of you — the ones that scan for danger, seek reassurance, or push you to perform — and understand what they’re trying to protect.
Attachment-Based Therapy
To examine how early relational experiences shaped your fear of rejection, conflict, or disapproval.
Somatic Therapy
To work directly with your nervous system — helping your body learn how to settle, regulate, and tolerate uncertainty.
Psychodynamic & Relational Therapy
To uncover deeper patterns driving your anxiety, especially in relationships.
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)
To process underlying emotions (fear, sadness, anger, shame) that anxiety may be covering over.
This work is collaborative.
We move at a pace that feels steady and safe.
High-Functioning Anxiety
Many people I work with are capable, thoughtful, and driven.
They often:
Excel at work
Show up for others
Anticipate everyone’s needs
Appear calm externally
But internally, they feel:
Chronically tense
Afraid of letting people down
Exhausted from managing everything
Unable to truly relax
If you resonate with this, your anxiety may be closely tied to people-pleasing, over-responsibility, or fear of conflict.
We gently untangle those patterns together.
What Therapy Can Help With
Through our work together, you can begin to:
Reduce constant overthinking
Feel more grounded in your body
Build tolerance for uncertainty
Set clearer boundaries
Respond instead of react
Feel less driven by fear of judgment
Experience more ease in relationships
Anxiety doesn’t disappear because you “logic” your way out of it.
It softens when your nervous system feels safer.
If You’re Considering Therapy for Anxiety
You don’t have to wait for panic attacks or burnout to seek support.
If you’re tired of living in a constant state of tension — or feeling like your mind never turns off — therapy can help you reconnect to steadiness.
If what you’ve read resonates, I invite you to book a free consultation to see if we’re a good fit.
You deserve to feel more at home in your own body.