Anxiety Therapy: Find Relief and Regain Control
Does Anxiety Feel Like It’s Taking Over Your Life?
It starts as a small worry—then suddenly, your mind is spiraling.
Your heart pounds. Your stomach twists. You replay conversations, overanalyze decisions, and feel paralyzed by the weight of what-ifs. No matter how much you try to push through, anxiety keeps creeping in—affecting your work, your relationships, and your ability to enjoy life.
- Do you overthink everything, second-guessing yourself at every turn?
- Is your mind always racing—running through worst-case scenarios or replaying past mistakes?
- Do you struggle to relax, even when everything is “fine”?
- Are life’s responsibilities—career, parenting, relationships—starting to feel unmanageable?
- Do you avoid new experiences or hold yourself back from what you truly want because fear takes over?
Many people with anxiety have spent years people-pleasing, avoiding conflict, and prioritizing others’ needs over their own. Instead of speaking up, you might defer to others, suppress emotions, or struggle to set boundaries—worried that saying no will disappoint someone or create tension.
If this sounds familiar, therapy can help. You don’t have to live in a constant state of stress and overthinking.
Anxiety Affects More Than Just Your Mind—It Impacts Your Whole Life
Anxiety isn’t just worrying—it’s a constant undercurrent of unease that affects your mind, body, and relationships.
- Your Thoughts – Overthinking, self-doubt, fear of failure, catastrophizing worst-case scenarios
- Your Body – Racing heart, tight chest, panic attacks, trouble sleeping, chronic tension
- Your Relationships – People-pleasing, avoiding conflict, struggling to set boundaries
If left untreated, anxiety can keep you trapped in cycles of avoidance, exhaustion, and self-doubt.
But no matter how long you’ve been struggling, you can find relief.
Why Do I Feel This Way?
Understanding the Roots of Anxiety
Anxiety doesn’t come out of nowhere—it’s shaped by both past experiences and current stressors.
- Past Experiences: Childhood stress, emotionally unavailable caregivers, unprocessed trauma, learned self-doubt.
- Current Stressors: Political division, social pressure, financial worries, uncertainty about the future.
Anxiety also distorts our thinking, making small stressors feel like insurmountable obstacles. Instead of seeing situations clearly, anxiety convinces us that we are alone, inadequate, or unprepared.
The good news? Therapy can help you challenge these beliefs and retrain your brain’s response to fear.
How TherapY helps you break free from anxiety
Right now, it may feel like anxiety controls you. But in therapy, you’ll learn how to take back control—gently and at your own pace.
In our work together, we’ll:
✔ Explore where your anxiety comes from (and why it feels so powerful).
✔ Identify and challenge anxious thoughts so they stop running the show.
✔ Teach your nervous system how to calm down—so you don’t feel stuck in “fight-or-flight” mode.
✔ Build confidence so you can trust yourself and your decisions.
THERAPeutic Approaches I use:
- Psychodynamic Therapy: Understanding the Root Causes of Anxiety
Often, our deepest fears and self-doubts stem from early life experiences—whether it’s a childhood marked by high expectations, unstable relationships, or patterns of self-protection.
Together, we’ll:
✔ Identify the unconscious fears driving your anxiety.
✔ Work through unresolved emotions that keep you stuck.
✔ Develop new ways of thinking and responding to stress.
- EMDR Therapy: Rewiring Your Brain’s Response to Fear
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a powerful, science-backed approach that helps the brain process unresolved trauma and rewire its response to fear.
If anxiety has kept you stuck in patterns of avoidance, self-doubt, or hypervigilance, EMDR can help you:
✔ Desensitize distressing memories and triggers.
✔ Reduce your body’s automatic “fight-or-flight” response.
✔ Create a healthier relationship with your thoughts and fears.
- CBT + Body-Based Techniques: Managing Anxiety in the Present
Alongside deeper healing, I integrate practical tools to help you manage anxiety day-to-day:
✔ Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Helps challenge negative thought patterns and build healthier coping skills.
✔ Breathing & Meditation Techniques: Teach your body how to regulate your nervous system when anxiety spikes.
Together, we’ll create a personalized plan that gives you both short-term relief and long-term healing.
💡 Real change happens when you’re ready to invest in yourself. If you’re tired of letting anxiety control your life and are open to exploring new ways of thinking and being, therapy can help you build resilience, self-trust, and confidence that lasts.
What Therapy Looks Like: Step-by-Step
Therapy isn’t about just talking—it’s about building real, lasting change.
🔹 Step 1: Understanding Your Anxiety – We explore when and how your anxiety started.
🔹 Step 2: Developing Coping Skills – You’ll learn tools to manage stress and worry.
🔹 Step 3: Long-Term Growth – We work toward deeper healing and lasting change.
👉 Ready to take the first step?
Case Study: How Therapy Helped Alex Overcome Overthinking, Panic Attacks & High-Functioning Stress (Fictitious Example)
Before Therapy: Trapped in Overthinking & Panic Attacks
Alex, a 35-year-old marketing manager, was outwardly successful but constantly anxious. Their mind raced all day, replaying conversations and second-guessing every decision. The pressure to always perform, always achieve, always “get it right” felt unbearable.
✔ Overthinking everything – replaying conversations, second-guessing emails, worrying about “what ifs.”
✔ Fear of failure – feeling like they had to be perfect or risk losing credibility.
✔ Frequent panic attacks – sudden waves of dizziness, a racing heart, and feeling like they were losing control.
✔ Trouble sleeping – waking up exhausted, mind racing before the day even started.
Alex tried to push through, telling themselves “I just need to work harder.” But the harder they worked, the more anxious they felt—as if they were always one mistake away from everything falling apart.
The Therapy Process: Releasing Anxiety & Installing New Beliefs
In therapy, we explored how Alex’s self-worth had become tied to external achievement. Through psychodynamic therapy, they uncovered how childhood experiences—growing up in a family where mistakes weren’t tolerated—had shaped their deep fear of failure.
Using EMDR, we worked to:
🔹 Reprocess past experiences where they felt shame, pressure, or “not enough.”
🔹 Install positive self-beliefs like “I am capable even when I’m not perfect.”
🔹 Reduce the emotional intensity of failure-related fears that triggered panic.
At the same time, we incorporated grounding techniques to help Alex manage panic attacks in the moment:
✔ Breathwork & body awareness to calm the nervous system.
✔ Visualization techniques to create a sense of safety.
✔ Self-compassion exercises to replace self-criticism with reassurance.
After Therapy: Confidence, Balance & Inner Peace
✨ Panic attacks decreased – learned how to recognize and stop them before they escalated.
✨ More confidence – stopped defining success by perfection.
✨ Improved work-life balance – felt more at ease, no longer pushing through exhaustion.
✨ Stronger self-worth – began trusting themselves and their decisions.
Are you ready to take the first step?
Frequently Asked Questions About Anxiety Therapy
🔹 “Is online therapy as effective as in-person therapy?”
Yes! My clients have had the same positive outcomes through telehealth, with added flexibility and comfort.
🔹 “Will talking about my triggers make things worse?”
No—therapy provides a safe space to explore anxiety at your own pace. You’ll gain self-compassion and tools to feel more in control.
🔹 “How long does anxiety treatment take?”
Every client’s journey is different. Many people benefit from weekly therapy over the course of a year or more to ensure deep, lasting change.
However, for those looking for a more accelerated approach, I also offer EMDR intensives. This can be especially helpful if:
√ You want to make significant progress in a shorter timeframe
√ You’re working through a major life transition or emotional challenge
√ Weekly therapy hasn’t felt fast-paced enough for your needs
With intensive therapy, we meet for longer or more frequent sessions to dive deeper into healing.
🔹 Want to explore which approach is right for you?
You Deserve to Feel Calm
and In Control
Anxiety doesn’t have to run your life. Therapy can help you break free from worry, build confidence, and feel more at ease.
📌 If you’re also navigating a life transition, learn more about therapy for life & career transitions.
Take the first step towards lasting relief.