Are stress and anxiety keeping you from living the way you want?
- Is your brain cluttered with running mental lists that never end?
- Do you ever spiral into racing, looping, or catastrophic thoughts after even minor inconveniences?
- Do you feel heavy with general worry or tension?
- Do you fear judgment, ridicule, or rejection in social situations?
- Are you terrified of specific things, like being in small/vast spaces, flying, driving, swallowing, etc.?
- Are you incapable of letting go and resting, even in your downtime?
In other words, do stress, worry, and ruminations make daily life feel harder than it “should” be?
If you find yourself fixating, obsessing, dreading, or feeling overwhelmed or discouraged trying to answer these questions, you may benefit from anxiety therapy.
Anxiety therapy is about helping you understand and control your responses to stressors in a healthy, sustainable way.
Anxiety is a big driver for downward-spiraling thought patterns.
Humans didn’t evolve for sedentary desk jobs or 40-plus-hour work weeks. On top of that, the universe throws a lot of curveballs. You may get sick or injured, or accumulate losses and traumas over time. Financial security is never guaranteed. Never mind the state of the world, and the very real “-isms” that reflect deep-rooted systemic issues that no one alone can ‘fix’: racism, sexism, ageism, ableism, classism, ethnocentrism.
These external stressors feel worse when your thoughts skew negative, and when you lack sustainable coping routines.
Without consistent, reliable, time-tested stress management strategies, anxiety stays in the driver’s seat and reinforces unhelpful beliefs that damage psychological wellbeing.
We’re all guilty of negative self-talk and worry at times, but your anxiety doesn’t have to spiral into chaos or trap you in quicksand.
An experienced therapist can help you learn to navigate and reset coping patterns that aren’t serving you, and ultimately reclaim control over your own thoughts and actions.
How do you know if your anxiety is ‘too much’?
After prolonged, heightened exposure to stress, your body adopts a continuous state of nervous system activation, with adrenaline pushing your fight-flight-freeze response, and cortisol working ever harder to try to balance that.
Any of these sound familiar?
Without intervention, this feedback loop of anxiety has a number of consequences, including:
Persistent loss of focus or brain fog
Overwhelm or emotional shutdown
Burnout and fatigue
Amotivation and general loss of interests
Physiological disturbances (changes in appetite, weight, sleep, GI/cardiac health, etc.)
Irritability, anger, and depression
Increased interpersonal conflicts
Social withdrawal or self-isolation
Anxiety treatment can help you reconcile inevitable unknowns and regain control over your life.
If you’ve lived in a state of distress long enough, you may not believe this to be true.
That's why it's especially helpful to consult a mental health professional at this stage, who can help you disrupt patterns of hopeless thinking, uncover the roots of your anxiety, and prune problematic beliefs or behaviors that are keeping you tangled in fear, panic, and doubt.
What does anxiety treatment look like?
1. Initial Contact
I invite all prospective clients to book a complimentary 10-minute phone consultation. This exploratory call gives us a chance to get to know each other briefly, without any further commitment or pressure.
2. Become a client
To formally start therapy, you will be asked to complete informed consent documents and intake paperwork sharing your personal history before your first appointment. I want to know what brought your anxiety to this point, and what you’d like to get out of therapy.
3. Attend your first session
Your mission during the intake appointment is to show me what anxiety looks like for you. The more I understand your anxiety, the better I can offer you customized cognitive, emotional, and behavioral skills for stress management that complement your existing self-regulation toolkit.
4. Personalized anxiety therapy
As an eclectic, collaborative therapist, I draw on evidence-based approaches that target anxiety in different ways. We’ll work together to use these tools to accomplish your goals:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): CBT-informed tactics help you identify anxiety triggers and dissect unhelpful ruminations as they happen, giving you power to change your reactions to them. Learn to view your relationship with anxiety through a new lens, and move from a place of fear and doubt to understanding and growth.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR): MBSR-informed self-care tools reduce negative impacts of stress and restore safety via the mind-body connection. Use grounding and somatic techniques to pull yourself back from tomorrow’s unknowns and anchor yourself in the reality of “now.”
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): DBT-informed skills bring awareness to how your anxiety manifests, and help create distance from stress-induced thoughts. Improve your distress tolerance and learn to engage with others in a nourishing manner, no matter what your anxiety may be saying.
Healthy, sustainable habits for anxiety management are within your reach.
Building a resilient, adaptable stress management plan is NOT something you have to do alone. It’s my job to provide you with more coping strategies to draw from, not less. The bulk of our time together will be spent exploring these skills and applying them to your day-to-day experiences.
I’m here to walk you through long-term change, one short-term fix at a time — you have the power to start that journey today.
New to therapy? Here are 3 questions I frequently hear:
1. How long does this take?
As a person-centered therapist, my guiding principle is that you're a whole, unique person who deserves equally comprehensive, customized care. Since treatment is 100% personalized, there is no set timeline or limit that I can guarantee.
Personal growth and change cannot be rushed, so please let yourself move at your own pace. That takes priority over any hopes I might have for you as a fellow human. I'm the mental health expert, but you’re the expert in YOU, and your needs always come first.
2. Will I learn to manage stress immediately, or will therapy focus on my past?
It depends, but the short answer is: yes, and yes. You may benefit from short-term, practical problem-solving through counseling to provide some initial relief. Or you may be seeking in-depth psychological exploration right away, using psychotherapy to pursue long-term growth.
Both are critical — understanding root causes is important, as is finding present-day stability — and the exact path you take will always be personalized to your needs.
3. What if I feel too overwhelmed or 'stuck' to know what to say in our first session?
It’s totally normal to feel nervous! Remember this: there’s no one way to “do therapy right.”
Showing up as you are IS ENOUGH. Anxiety looks different for everyone, and I’m counting on you to teach me what that means for you. Guiding our conversations from there is my job, not yours. You’re welcome to come with an agenda, or not. Should your goals change, I’ll always pivot — no judgment, ever.
With the right tools, you can overcome stress and cultivate lasting peace of mind.
If you’re tired of living in overdrive, anxiety therapy can teach you strategies to conquer various stressors, restore internal balance, and find calm through all your storms.
Let me know if you’re ready to work together to create certainty for yourself in this otherwise uncertain world.
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