Anxiety Therapy
Anxiety. It’s a word we hear and use so often, which can make it feel overwhelming to explain how consuming it can feel when you’re having more than just everyday stress. When anxiety becomes an constant experience, it can feel like fear has taken the lead — constantly scanning for danger, hijacking your choices and leaving you feeling like you’re stuck in a cycle with no way to escape.
Many of the women I work with in anxiety therapy come in talking about feeling like they’re stuck on a merry-go-round of negative thoughts that feels like the carnival ride from hell. No matter how hard they try to calm the anxiety down, it keeps speeding up. It doesn’t even seem to matter to anxiety if the counter-argument thoughts are making good points! Anxiety just uses it as fuel to speed up this ride even faster. It’s exhausting and overwhelming.
Understanding Anxiety
Even though anxiety can feel relentless, it doesn’t have to control your life. In therapy, we work together to understand your specific patterns of anxiety and what keeps the cycle going. This isn’t about trying harder or “thinking your way out”—it’s about learning how your mind and body respond to fear, noticing the signals early, and practicing tools that help you slow down, regain a sense of control, and step off the cycle more often.
Over time, women I work with often find they can navigate daily life with more ease, clarity, and confidence, even when anxiety shows up.
It doesn’t have to stay like this…
Some symptoms of anxiety that I see often in my clients include:
Uncontrollable anxiety and worry
Struggling to concentrate and recall information
Mental and physical exhaustion
Irritability and heightened anger (yes, even rage)
Sleep struggles (falling asleep, staying asleep, or poor quality sleep)
Physical reactions – pounding heart, sweating, shortness of breath, tingling, chest pain, dizziness, restlessness, muscle tension
Panic attacks
Feeling disconnected from reality or your body
Fear that you’re “going crazy” or might be dying
Avoidance of anxiety-provoking situations altogether
Common Ways Anxiety Shows Up
By the time many women come into therapy with me, anxiety has usually become overwhelming and started impacting so many areas of their life—work, relationships, sleep, and how they see themselves. Most of the time, it feels hard to even figure out where to begin explaining it all or how to let me know how much it’s impacting their life. When working with me, you don’t have to organize it perfectly or “have the words” when we begin. We’ll figure it out together.
A huge part of my work is helping women make sense of the mess anxiety has created and move toward the life they’re yearning for. With guidance, you can begin to untangle the patterns, develop strategies that work for you, and reclaim a sense of calm, clarity, and confidence. You won’t have to navigate this journey alone—I’m here to help you step off the merry-go-round and move in a direction that feels more like you.
