Anxiety is not a personal failure. It is a messenger.
A nervous system doing its best to protect you.
A wise, if sometimes overactive, companion trying to prepare you for the uncertain terrain of life.

And yet, living with chronic anxiety can feel like being stuck inside a mind that won’t stop spinning, a body that won’t settle, a heart that won’t rest.

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If you are here, you might feel:

• Trapped in a loop of worry or intrusive thoughts

• Like your mind jumps to worst-case scenarios before you can catch it

• Exhausted from trying to “hold it all together”

• Overwhelmed by decisions, even small ones

• Distracted, disconnected, or emotionally flooded

• Physically tense, reactive, or jittery

• Ashamed for not being able to “calm down”

• Like joy and peace are on the other side of an invisible wall

This experience is real. And you are not alone.

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The Body Keeps the Score—and the Signal

 

Anxiety doesn’t just live in the mind. It can ripple through the body as racing heartbeats, shallow breath, tight chests, clenched jaws, churning stomachs, restless limbs, disrupted sleep, and a general sense of unease or panic that seems to come “out of nowhere.”

Sometimes it shows up as chronic tension or pain.

Sometimes it masquerades as irritability, numbing, avoidance, perfectionism, or overthinking. It can whisper doubts about your worth, or shout warnings that you are failing, flailing, or falling behind.

This is not your fault.
It is your system doing exactly what it learned to do to keep you safe.

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A Different Relationship with Anxiety Is Possible

 

In therapy, we don’t rush to get rid of anxiety—we learn to relate to it differently. We get curious. We slow down. We listen.

We ask:

• What is your anxiety protecting you from?

• What does it want you to know or pay attention to?

• How long has it been with you?

• What are its patterns?

• How does it live in your body?

• What brings even the tiniest moment of ease?

Together, we’ll explore how to be with your experience in a way that is more resourced, more spacious, and more choiceful.

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My Approach

 

My approach is warm, relational, body-based, playful and gently curious. I work from an integrative foundation that includes somatic psychotherapy, embodied relational Gestalt, mindfulness traditions, neuroscience, attachment theory, Jungian inquiry, modern psychoanalysis, indigenous wisdom traditions, and trauma-informed care.

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Our first priority will be building a space where you feel safe to bring your full self—no masks, no pressure to perform, no shame for how you’re coping. This alone is a radical act of healing: to be met with presence in the places you’ve felt most alone or “too much.”

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From that foundation, we begin to map your inner world with compassion—exploring what activates your anxiety, how it operates, and what it’s connected to. We might attend to childhood roots, past experiences of overwhelm, or cultural/familial messaging around safety, control, or worth. And we’ll pay close attention to your body’s cues—because often, it knows before the mind does.

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You’ll also learn practical tools—breath, movement, regulation practices, nervous system tracking, inner dialogue work—that help you build tolerance for discomfort, connect to grounded presence, and respond rather than react.

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This work doesn’t aim to eliminate anxiety—it invites you into relationship with your inner protector, so you are no longer ruled by it.

 

Common Questions

 

How long does it take to feel better?
There’s no one-size-fits-all answer. Some clients feel relief after simply being heard and validated—often for the first time.

Others find that the roots of anxiety are deep and require gentle, ongoing tending.

Therapy is not a race. It’s a relationship. We go at your pace, with reverence for your nervous system’s wisdom.

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What if I feel ashamed about needing help?
That makes sense. Many of us have internalized the belief that we should be able to “handle it on our own.” But you weren’t meant to navigate this alone. Our bodies and minds are wired for co-regulation—for being with others in safety and attunement. There is strength, not weakness, in reaching out.

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Isn’t anxiety just part of being human?
Yes—and no. Some anxiety is part of being alive in an uncertain world. But when it becomes overwhelming, disruptive, or chronic, it signals that your system needs support. Therapy helps you listen to the deeper messages beneath the anxiety and respond with clarity, compassion, and care.

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You are not broken. You are responding.

 

Anxiety is not a flaw.

It is a survival strategy that may have once worked brilliantly.

Now, perhaps, it’s simply over-functioning—running on autopilot long past the time it was needed.

In therapy, we make space for both the pain and the brilliance of your strategies. We thank them. We learn from them. And we help you build new ones.

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You don’t have to stay stuck.

 

If anxiety is keeping you from living the life you long for—from creative expression, intimate relationships, spiritual connection, restful sleep, or joyful presence—therapy can help.

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I offer a free consultation so we can connect and see if this feels like the right fit. Whether you’ve been in therapy before or this is your first time, you are welcome here. You can bring your fears, your doubts, your messiness, your questions. You will not be judged. You will be met.

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You are not alone.

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I am not just a therapist—I am a person who has known anxiety in my own bones. My education includes the formal advanced academia, but also the embodied—the lived. I’ve sat in the fire of my own spirals. I’ve learned to breathe through them, listen to them, dance with them. I’ve seen what becomes possible when anxiety is met with tenderness rather than war.

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Let’s meet yours, together.

If you’re longing for more steadiness, more spaciousness, more of yourself—reach out. Your life is waiting.