Working With Anxiety
For many people, anxiety developed in response to early relational experiences, chronic responsibility, perfectionism, or environments where safety and connection felt uncertain. What once helped you adapt may now feel exhausting or limiting.
Rather than focusing on symptom elimination, therapy centers on understanding anxiety—its origins, purpose, and impact—so it no longer has to run the show.
A Relational, Nervous-System–Informed Approach
Anxiety is shaped in relationships and often shows up most clearly in relationships—with partners, family, work, or within oneself. Using a relational and attachment-based lens, we explore how anxious patterns impact connection, boundaries, communication, and self-trust.Parts work is an essential component of this process. We identify and build relationships with the parts of you that carry worry, vigilance, responsibility, or fear—honoring them as protectors rather than trying to push them away.
Anxiety in Today’s World
Many people are experiencing heightened anxiety as a natural response to current social, political, and environmental conditions. Ongoing uncertainty, division, and constant exposure to distressing information can keep the nervous system in a state of chronic vigilance.In therapy, we work to identify when anxiety is a response to the world rather than a personal failing. Externalizing collective stress helps reduce shame and self-blame while restoring perspective and self-compassion.
Somatic Support, Brainspotting, and Agency
Because anxiety lives in the body, our work includes nervous-system and somatic awareness. Brainspotting may be used to access and process deeper physiological and emotional patterns that sustain anxiety beyond conscious thought. Alongside somatic work, we explore agency—clarifying what is within your control, what is not, and what forms of action feel regulating rather than depleting. Even small, values-aligned steps can reduce helplessness and support greater steadiness.
The Goal of Therapy
The goal is not the absence of anxiety, but a healthier relationship with it.As understanding, regulation, and internal support grow, anxiety often softens. Clients report feeling more grounded, less reactive, and more able to respond to life with choice rather than urgency or self-doubt.Therapy becomes a place to reconnect with your inner knowing—while staying engaged with the world in a way that is sustainable, meaningful, and aligned with who you are.
Anxiety is not a flaw or something that needs to be fixed. In my work, anxiety is understood as an intelligent response—your nervous system’s way of protecting you in situations that feel overwhelming, unpredictable, or unsafe.
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