Anxiety Therapy FOR HIGH-ACHIEVING PROFESSIONALS

Yes! Research consistently shows that online therapy for anxiety is as effective as in-person treatment, with the added benefits of convenience, privacy, and comfort.

My clients in New York, New Jersey, and Illinois have experienced the same positive outcomes through telehealth: reduced anxiety symptoms, improved coping skills, and lasting behavioral change.

Many high-achieving professionals actually prefer anxiety therapy online because it eliminates commute time, allows them to attend from a private space (their home or office), and makes it easier to fit therapy into demanding work schedules.

Whether we’re using EMDR to reprocess anxiety triggers, psychodynamic therapy to understand root causes, or CBT techniques for managing symptoms, the therapeutic relationship and treatment effectiveness remain strong in the virtual format.

The key is finding a therapist whose approach fits your needs, regardless of whether sessions happen online or in-person.

No. This is one of the most common concerns people have before starting anxiety therapy, and it’s completely understandable.

The therapeutic process is designed to help you explore anxiety at your own pace, in a safe and controlled environment.

We don’t dive into overwhelming material before you have the tools to manage it. Instead, we build your capacity gradually, first establishing grounding techniques and coping skills, then slowly approaching triggers when you’re ready.

With EMDR therapy for anxiety, we can even reprocess distressing memories and experiences without requiring you to talk about them in detail.

You’ll gain self-compassion, learn to recognize anxiety patterns before they escalate, and develop tools to feel more in control.

Therapy makes anxiety more manageable, not worse.

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) helps anxiety disorders by targeting the specific memories, experiences, and beliefs that created your anxiety response in the first place.

Unlike traditional talk therapy that focuses primarily on managing current symptoms, EMDR reprocesses the root experiences, perhaps moments when you felt unsafe, criticized, or overwhelmed, so they no longer trigger the same automatic fear response in your nervous system.

During EMDR sessions, you recall these experiences while following bilateral stimulation (eye movements, taps, or sounds), which helps your brain complete the processing it couldn’t do at the time.

This is particularly effective for generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety, panic disorder, and performance anxiety common in high-achieving professionals.

Clients often report that situations that once triggered intense anxiety, like public speaking, making decisions, or receiving feedback, no longer activate the same level of distress.

EMDR doesn’t just help you cope with anxiety; it helps resolve the underlying causes.

Yes, I provide anxiety therapy online for clients throughout New York, New Jersey, and Illinois, where I hold active clinical licenses.

Online anxiety therapy offers several advantages for high-achieving professionals: you can attend sessions from your home or office, eliminating commute time and allowing you to fit therapy into demanding work schedules.

Many clients appreciate the privacy of processing difficult emotions in their own space rather than in a public waiting room.

Virtual sessions are just as effective as in-person therapy. I use the same evidence-based approaches including EMDR, psychodynamic therapy, and CBT techniques.

Whether you’re managing generalized anxiety, panic attacks, social anxiety, or the chronic stress of high-pressure careers, online therapy provides the same depth of healing and lasting change.

The therapeutic relationship and treatment outcomes remain strong regardless of whether we meet virtually or face-to-face.

Stopping overthinking and anxiety isn’t about forcing your mind to be quiet; that usually backfires.

Instead, it’s about understanding why your brain learned to overthink in the first place and retraining your nervous system’s response.

In anxiety therapy, we work on multiple levels: First, we identify what triggers your overthinking loops. Often it’s fear of making mistakes, being judged, or disappointing others.

Second, we teach your nervous system to recognize when you’re in an anxiety spiral and how to interrupt it using grounding techniques, breathwork, and body awareness.

Third, we address the root causes through EMDR or psychodynamic therapy, the experiences that taught your brain that constant vigilance keeps you safe.

Many high-achievers discover their overthinking is actually a protective strategy from childhood where mistakes weren’t tolerated.

As we process these experiences, the compulsive overthinking naturally decreases.

You’ll still think deeply. That’s part of being thoughtful and intelligent, but without the exhausting mental loops.

Yes, much of my practice focuses on anxiety in high-performing women, particularly those in finance, technology, and healthcare.

High-achieving women often experience anxiety differently than the general population. It doesn’t look like falling apart; it looks like perfectionism, overwork, and the constant fear of being exposed as “not enough” despite clear evidence of competence.

You might excel professionally while internally battling imposter syndrome, people-pleasing, difficulty setting boundaries, and the exhausting pressure to prove yourself repeatedly.

As someone with an MBA and a decade in corporate environments, plus specialized training as an EMDR therapist and financial social work, I understand both the external pressures you face (workplace dynamics, compensation negotiations, leadership challenges) and the internal patterns keeping you stuck.

Anxiety therapy helps high-performing women move from chronic stress and self-doubt to sustainable confidence and genuine calm.

Yes, EMDR is highly effective for treating generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), though the approach differs slightly from treating single-incident trauma.

With GAD, we identify the clusters of experiences and beliefs that created your chronic worry pattern, perhaps growing up in an unpredictable environment where you learned to stay hypervigilant, or early experiences where mistakes led to criticism or rejection.

EMDR helps reprocess these foundational experiences so your nervous system no longer interprets everyday situations as threats requiring constant anxiety.

Research shows EMDR can significantly reduce GAD symptoms including excessive worry, physical tension, sleep disturbances, and difficulty concentrating.

Many clients with generalized anxiety disorder also benefit from combining EMDR with psychodynamic therapy to understand the deeper patterns and CBT techniques for day-to-day management.

The goal isn’t to eliminate all worry. Some anxiety is normal and helpful, but to bring it down to manageable, proportional levels so it’s not controlling your life.

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.

The free consultation helps us both assess fit. You’ll get a sense of my style and approach, and I’ll learn what brings you to therapy.

Once we begin, we spend the first few sessions gathering background before collaboratively developing a treatment plan tailored to your needs.