Anxiety Therapy
Whether it's been there your whole life or crept up on you recently, we'll work on understanding it.
The short version
Anxiety in adults often hides behind high functioning. You may look capable on the outside while internally buzzing with constant worry, overthinking, tension, self-doubt, or a nervous system that rarely fully settles. It can result in overworking, irritability, perfectionism, relationship difficulties, or rumination.
Many people spend years functioning this way before realizing how much energy it takes to hold everything together. Other times it's been there so long it simply feels like your personality.
If you've been managing anxiety, there's usually something worth looking at underneath it. The goal is carrying less, not just carrying it better. We can work on generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), social anxiety, panic, health anxiety, phobias, obsessive-compulsive patterns, perfectionism, and high-functioning anxiety.
Common Patterns
Overthinking
Mental loops, second-guessing, catastrophizing, anticipatory anxiety, and difficulty tolerating uncertainty can create a hum of internal noise. Anxiety often creates avoidance and decision paralysis, too.
Hypervigilance
Feeling constantly on alert, scanning for problems, rejection, conflict, mistakes, or worst-case scenarios. The nervous system stays in a low-level preparation mode, trying to anticipate what might go wrong before it does.
Emotional Exhaustion
It shows up as perfectionism, people-pleasing, imposter syndrome, burnout, irritability, sleep issues, and difficulty fully relaxing. For men especially, anxiety can look like irritability, overworking, or a low-grade restlessness that never settles.
How I Work with Anxiety
In early sessions, we'll map out your particular version of anxiety. What it feels like in your body, when it shows up, what makes it louder, and what you've been doing to manage it. We'll build on the strategies that have helped you get through difficult things and address the ones that might be keeping the anxiety going more than relieving it.
From there, we'll work on interrupting the cycles. We'll look at avoidance, reassurance-seeking, and the way worry can feel productive even when it isn't. We'll also eek to understand where your anxiety started to grow in the first place.
Anxiety also frequently overlaps with ADHD, relationship patterns, and substance use. Sometimes what looks like anxiety is connected to something else, and part of the work is understanding what's driving it. I draw on psychodynamic, experiential, and somatic approaches depending on what you need.
What Therapy Can Help With
Emotional Regulation
Anxiety often shows up in the body before it reaches your thoughts. Racing heart, tight chest, a wave of dread that seems to come from nowhere. We'll build capacity to move through those states rather than getting stuck in them.
Relationship Patterns
Understand how anxiety affects boundaries, reassurance-seeking, people-pleasing, trust, social anxiety, hypervigilance around how you're perceived, and emotional connection.
Self Trust
Reduce overthinking, perfectionism, and chronic self-doubt while building more confidence in yourself and your decisions. Learn to tell the difference between a fear that needs attending to and noise that needs quieting.