Anxiety & Stress
Anxiety and chronic stress can show up in many ways — as constant worry and tension, trouble sleeping, discomfort in social situations, hypervigilance, or even feelings of panic.
Using a combination of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and mindfulness-based techniques, we will work together to help you understand what fuels your anxiety and begin using practical, evidence-based tools to calm your body, quiet your mind, and restore balance.
Specialty Areas
Chronic Worry
When your mind feels constantly “on,” replaying concerns and imagining worst-case scenarios, it can become exhausting and hard to focus on the present. Therapy can help you step out of overthinking, ease the constant tension, and feel more present in your day-to-day life.
Perinatal Anxiety & OCD
Pregnancy and postpartum can bring unexpected waves of anxiety, intrusive thoughts, or fears that don’t feel like “you.” With compassion and practical tools, we’ll work toward helping you feel calmer, safer, and more confident in this new chapter.
Panic Attacks
Panic can come on suddenly and feel terrifying—your heart pounds, your chest tightens, and it seems like something is seriously wrong. Together, we’ll work to understand what’s happening in your mind and body and develop concrete strategies so fear no longer dictates your life.
Attachment Anxiety
If relationships leave you feeling preoccupied, insecure, or afraid of rejection, attachment anxiety may be at play. Therapy can help you understand these patterns and build steadier, more trusting connections.
Health Anxiety
When health fears dominate your thoughts or lead to frequent checking or reassurance seeking, anxiety can take over your daily life. I help you break the cycle of worry and develop more balanced, evidence-based ways of responding to uncertainty.
Social Anxiety
Social situations can trigger self-consciousness, fear of judgment, or avoidance that limits your life. We’ll work together to reduce anxious thoughts and build genuine confidence in your interactions.
How I Work
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.