Therapy for Anxiety
Helping you approach your anxiety with curiosity and compassion, recognizing that it once served a purpose. In Austin, TX, and virtually in Texas and PSYPACT states.
For the “what if” expert
Your mind moves a mile a minute - -overthinking, preparing, second-guessing. You’ll allow yourself to rest only once you’ve thought through every possibility. That ever-present “buzzing” feeling makes stillness feel unbearable. Your exhaustion is bone-deep. The smallest of things ticks you off.
Logically, you know worrying isn’t productive, but you can’t seem to stop. You’ve tried reasoning with yourself and urging yourself to “just let it go.”
Therapy can help you manage your anxiety symptoms and relate to them from a place of curiosity, acceptance, and compassion.
Anxiety may show up as:
Perfectionism
Insomnia
Overpreparing or overworking
Staying constantly busy
Fear of disappointing others
Feeling responsible for or monitoring others’ emotions
Indecisiveness
Self-criticism
My anxiety therapy approach:
We’ll start by assessing how anxiety is showing up for you and what it’s getting in the way of.
We’ll sort out what you’re avoiding to feel safe (spoiler alert: where there’s anxiety, there’s avoidance).
You’ll learn new ways of thinking about anxiety and strategies for managing it in the moment, starting during our time together.
We’ll explore how your anxiety shows up in the here-and-now of the therapy hour. This means that I’ll encourage you to slow down and notice what’s happening in your body, in your mind, and between you and me.
Along the way, we’ll compassionately explore the origins of your anxiety (i.e., familial, cultural, environmental) and how it may have helped you in the past.
Decades of research show that overcoming anxiety requires facing what you’ve been avoiding. Most often, this is an internal experience such as being vulnerable, making mistakes, asking for help, tolerating uncertainty, or sitting with difficult emotions.
We’ll do it together.
Clients describe me as a good listener, warm, insightful, direct, transparent, thoughtful, and deeply caring. My hope is that you will always feel that I am in it with you. I'll meet you where you are with everything I've got.
