Anxiety & Overwhelm
Anxiety and feelings of overwhelm can show up in many ways, including constant worry, mental noise, physical tension, difficulty sleeping, avoidance, or feeling perpetually on edge. For many people, these experiences develop over time as patterns of over-responsibility, hypervigilance, or chronic emotional load.
Drawing on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and mindfulness-based approaches, we work together to understand what keeps these patterns in place and to develop practical, evidence-based ways to regulate the nervous system, quiet the mind, and move through daily life with greater steadiness and ease.
Specialty Areas
Chronic Worry & Overthinking
When your mind feels constantly “on,” replaying concerns or anticipating worst-case scenarios, it can be exhausting and hard to stay present. Therapy can help you understand the patterns that fuel chronic worry, ease mental tension, and create more space for clarity and focus in daily life.
Perinatal Anxiety & Intrusive Thoughts
Pregnancy and the postpartum period can bring unexpected anxiety, intrusive thoughts, or fears that feel unsettling or out of character. I help women navigate these experiences with compassion and evidence-based support, so anxiety becomes more manageable and confidence grows during this significant transition.
Panic & Acute Anxiety
Panic can feel sudden and overwhelming, with intense physical sensations that make it seem as though something is seriously wrong. In therapy, we work to understand how panic operates in both the mind and body, and to develop practical strategies so fear no longer dictates how you live or move through the world.
Relationship-Based Anxiety
If relationships leave you feeling preoccupied, insecure, or overly concerned about rejection or abandonment, anxiety may be shaping how you relate. Therapy can help you understand these relational patterns and build steadier, more grounded connections that feel safer and more reciprocal.
Health-Related Anxiety
When worries about health dominate your thoughts or lead to repeated checking or reassurance-seeking, anxiety can quickly take over. I help clients understand the cycles that maintain health-related anxiety and develop more balanced, compassionate ways of responding to uncertainty.
Social Anxiety & Self-Consciousness
Social situations can trigger self-doubt, fear of judgment, or avoidance that limits connection and opportunity. Therapy offers a space to understand these patterns and build confidence that feels genuine and grounded, rather than forced or performative.
How I Work With Anxiety
The most effective treatment for anxiety blends the strengths of several evidence-based approaches. I use Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help you understand and shift the thought patterns that drive anxiety, exposure-based strategies to retrain your nervous system’s threat response, and mindfulness-based tools to build awareness, tolerance, and emotional steadiness.
These approaches are well-supported by research and are commonly recommended for treating anxiety because they don’t just reduce symptoms — they change the underlying patterns that keep anxiety going. This will look like:
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Clarifying how your thoughts and behaviors keep anxiety going (collaborative assessment & in-between session logs)
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Learning targeted CBT skills to test unhelpful thoughts and reduce avoidance and reassurance seeking
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Mindfulness and grounding practices to calm the nervous system and increase tolerance for difficult emotions and sensations
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Behavioral experiments and exposure tasks, paced to your readiness, to reduce avoidance and rebuild confidence
Therapy is both understanding why anxiety shows up and doing the hands-on work of changing how you respond.
What to Expect
Many clients begin to notice shifts as they consistently use the tools we practice together, though the pace of change can vary from person to person. I’ll always be realistic about timelines and collaborative about goals.
Early Sessions (1-4)
Assessment, goal-setting, psychoeducation, and starting small practical tools for immediate relief (mindfulness practice, sleep hygiene, thought records).
Middle Phase (4-12)
Skill practice—CBT techniques, exposure exercises (if needed), and deeper work on core beliefs that maintain anxiety.
Later Phase
Integrating tools into daily life, relapse prevention, and returning to valued activities with greater ease.