Anxiety

I aim to provide coping skills to help reduce anxiety related behaviors while addressing the underlying concerns.

The "what if's" of life can plague the mind and hijack life sending you spiraling down a direction that feels chaotic. The anxiety and worry is often out of proportion to the actual situation, yet symptoms are so overwhelming that catastrophic thoughts lead to beliefs that life is unmanageable. Learning coping strategies to alleviate anxiety can help reduce these symptoms, resolve conflict, and stabilizing daily functioning. Life can be peaceful and enjoyable!

Anxiety is common in those who demand a lot from themselves. This can look like feeling overwhelmed, burnout, hopelessness, tension, frequent crying, procrastination and more. I use evidence-based approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to recognize negative thinking patterns and habits for what they are and begin replacing them with hopeful, realistic narratives you believe in.

Anxiety symptoms include intense, excessive, and persistent worry and fear about everyday situations. Some folks may experience symptoms of anxiety in their body such as racing heart rate, rapid breathing/difficulty breathing, sweating, or excessive fatigue. We will utilize a cognitive behavioral therapy approach to better understand how your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors contribute to your experiences of anxiety.

Anxiety can be treated with Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing therapy (EMDR), Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), Internal Family Systems (IFS), and mindfulness. We will explore the reason behind the anxiety and process it as needed. We will also work on breathing, being present, and using the body to ground the anxious mind. The exact approach depends on your needs.

I help people deal with their anxiety and find creative new ways to cope. I used to teach skills for managing panic attacks in a traditional way, until I had one myself. Unfortunately, what I had taught people didn't work for me. Now I have found methods that help people significantly reduce their anxiety, and hopefully head off panic attacks quickly.

I tailor strategies rooted in mindfulness, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness, I guide clients toward lasting relief. Through DBT's empowering techniques, discover tools to navigate anxious thoughts and emotions. Our therapeutic alliance is a sanctuary for growth, fostering resilience and sustainable change. Embrace a life where balance and serenity prevail, as

I have lived with anxiety most of my life, and have yet to meet a client who hasn't also experienced anxiety on some level. Usually through parts work and working with your nervous system, we can get to the root of the anxiety and what it is trying to tell us or help us with in life.

Anxiety can look differently for people. Perhaps you are experiencing excessive worry or irrational fear.  Anxiety can be about future things or over-analyzing the past.  It may feel excruciating to make a decision or perhaps you don't think before you do something.  Anxiety can also look very different for children.  Maybe they are being clingy, avoidant of new experiences or easily upset when a plan changes and that can also cause our own anxiety to spike.   

Anxiety is defined as persistent worry or fear about everyday situations that causes impairment in functioning. I help individuals understand their anxiety and where it stems from, in order to decrease symptoms and build an effective coping toolbox.

Let's get to the bottom of your anxiety or depression, so you can experience a lightness of being. When you release your inner critic you can start living your life according to your values.

All you know is that anxiety is certainly is not 'only in your head' if only because you also feel it all over your body. Depending on the situation, your symptoms range from sweaty palms, a runaway heartbeat, a pit in your stomach, feeling lightheaded -- all the way to a full-blown panic attack. Fast forward to a few weeks or months from now. Thanks to the work you've done in therapy, you're feeling less anxious, more relaxed, and you finally have a plan to curb your anxiety.

Did you know that anxiety is stored in the body? It can be very insidious, affecting every aspect of your life. I work from a body-centered approach to heal anxiety, pulling from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, IFS, and CBT. We can get to know the anxiety with compassion, understand it's function, and find ways to soothe it.

I use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help you understand your anxiety and rewire your thoughts to better cope with your anxiety.

The therapeutic modalities that I am trained in and use are all effective at engaging with anxiety. Woven together, they help us address different parts of ourselves that are contributing to our anxiety. Primarily I work with anxiety through Cognitive and Behavioral and Compassion Focused Therapy, however Somatic and Existential Therapy can also help to address more subtle areas of our anxiety.

I provide comprehensive support for managing anxiety, focusing on understanding its triggers and incorporating mindfulness into daily routines. Our collaborative approach includes developing personalized strategies for both daily management and coping with acute anxiety episodes. By enhancing your ability to navigate life’s challenges, we aim to improve your overall functionality and quality of life, instilling confidence and calm.

Anxiety in its most basic form is a survival tactic for all humans. Simply put, anxiety becomes a problem when there is too much of it. Unmanaged anxiety can interfere with our daily lives, intruding into our thoughts and preventing us from living joyful lives. I have experience helping clients identify useful coping mechanisms to manage anxiety and targeting what seems to be the biggest anxiety triggers in their life.

I have a professional passion for treating all things anxiety & OCD. I take pride in continuing to build my competence, gain more understanding, and become more efficient when treating mild to severe anxiety-related issues. I've learned a combination of evidenced-based treatments for anxiety & OCD, including CBT, ERP, DBT, ACT, and SPACE.

The number one complaint of adults in America is anxiety. It isn't weakness or a lack of trying - we are literally carrying body memories of trauma, overstimulation, being unfairly judged, etc which inform our experience today. We may be oversensitive to stimulation in the environment now making us jumpy, hypervigilant, irritable, overreactive - or underreactive - leading to bad decision making - maybe even blowing shit up that we care about. Fortunately, neurobased therapies help.