Anxiety can feel like your mind never truly gets to rest.
Maybe you're constantly thinking ahead, replaying conversations, questioning whether you made the "right" decision, or imagining everything that could go wrong. Even when life feels relatively calm, it can be difficult to fully relax because part of you is always preparing for what might happen next.
Maybe you've become so accustomed to carrying the mental load that you hardly notice how exhausting it has become. You hold yourself to high expectations, worry about disappointing others, and feel responsible for keeping everything together, even when you're running on empty.
Anxiety isn't simply something you experience. Over time, it can begin shaping how you make decisions, relate to others, approach work or school, and move through your daily life.
Therapy for Anxiety
Anxiety often develops as an attempt to help us navigate uncertainty, anticipate challenges, stay prepared, or protect ourselves from disappointment, failure, or emotional pain.
While those strategies may once have served an important purpose, they can gradually become exhausting, leaving you feeling stuck in cycles of overthinking, self-doubt, and constant vigilance.
Rather than asking only, "How do we stop the anxiety?" we'll also become curious about questions like:
What is your anxiety trying to prepare you for?
What feels risky about slowing down or letting go of control?
How has anxiety helped you feel safer, more responsible, or more capable?
What keeps the cycle of worry going, even when you know it's not helping?
Looking beyond the worry
When your strengths become exhausting
Many of the people I work with are thoughtful, capable, and deeply committed to doing things well. They're the people others rely on. They care deeply about their work, relationships, and responsibilities. They think ahead, notice details, and want to make thoughtful decisions.
These qualities are strengths, but when they're fueled by anxiety, those same strengths can begin to feel heavy. Planning becomes overplanning. Responsibility becomes feeling responsible for everything. Thoughtfulness becomes endless overthinking. High standards become perfectionism. Preparation becomes difficulty tolerating uncertainty. Over time, it can feel as though your mind never gives you permission to simply be.
Therapy isn't about helping you to care less. It's about helping you carry those strengths differently so that they support your life rather than quietly running it.
You may find yourself:
feeling like your mind is constantly "on."
replaying conversations long after they've ended
overthinking decisions, even small ones
preparing for every possible outcome before making a choice
struggling to trust yourself without reassurance
feeling responsible for keeping everything together
finding it difficult to rest because being productive feels safer
feeling emotionally overwhelmed by situations others seem to navigate more easily
avoiding situations because uncertainty feels unbearable
feeling like anxiety is preventing you from fully enjoying your relationships, work, or daily life.
You don't need to identify with every experience on this list to benefit from therapy.
You may recognize yourself here
My approach
My work is collaborative, relational, warm, and grounded in evidence-based eating disorder treatment while remaining individualized to your unique experiences, values, and goals.
I draw from approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Radically Open DBT (RO-DBT), interpersonal approaches, attachment theory, and mindfulness-based interventions, integrating them based on your needs rather than following a rigid formula.
What matters most isn't applying the "right" technique, but in understanding the experiences, beliefs, and patterns that have shaped your relationship with anxiety in the first place.
Together, we'll explore not only how anxiety shows up, but why it makes sense that it developed the way it did, and how you can begin responding with greater flexibility, confidence, and self-compassion.
Begin moving forward
Living with anxiety can make it feel like you're constantly preparing for life instead of fully participating in it. Therapy offers a space to slow down, understand what's been keeping you stuck, and begin responding to yourself with greater curiosity instead of criticism.
If you're ready to move beyond simply managing anxiety and begin understanding it more deeply, I'd be honored to begin exploring this together.