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Anxiety & Trauma Therapy in Natick
Stop living on edge. Start feeling steady again.
Ready to stop stressing and overthinking?
Your mind rarely slows down. You replay conversations, second-guess decisions, and analyze what you could’ve done differently. Perfectionism keeps you chasing a sense of “enough,” but instead of helping you feel in control, it leaves you exhausted.
You may also feel like you’re always bracing for impact even when things are calm. You scan for danger, disappointment, or rejection and struggle to trust when things are going well. When you’ve spent so long on edge, even rest can feel unfamiliar.
Does this sound familiar?
You often feel overwhelmed or frustrated, and it spills into your relationships or daily life.
You second-guess yourself, fear making the wrong choice, or feel paralyzed by perfectionism.
It’s hard to enjoy good moments because part of you is waiting for something to go wrong.
Social situations leave you replaying conversations or worrying about how you came across.
“What if” thoughts quickly turn into worst-case scenarios.
Your body feels tense or keyed up - tight shoulders, headaches, trouble sleeping, or difficulty fully relaxing.
Treatment for Anxiety & Trauma
When anxiety has been running the show, even everyday decisions can feel heavy.
You don’t just feel anxious. You over-function, overthink, over-carry, and rarely feel truly settled. As an EMDRIA Certified Therapist™ and DBT-Linehan Board Certified Clinician™, I combine practical tools with deeper processing to help you regulate intense emotions, understand the patterns keeping you stuck, and create lasting change.
Therapy can help you:
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Anxiety thrives on “what if” thinking, replaying conversations, and trying to control every possible outcome. Together, we’ll identify the patterns keeping you stuck and build skills to interrupt them. You’ll learn how to respond to anxious thoughts instead of spiraling with them — so your mind feels quieter and more manageable.
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When you’re constantly on edge, your body feels it too — tight shoulders, shallow breathing, trouble sleeping, a sense that something bad might happen. We’ll use grounding, mindfulness, and body-based strategies to help your nervous system settle. Calm becomes something you can access — not something that feels out of reach.
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Anxiety often shows up as constant scanning — trying to predict every outcome, prevent every mistake, and prepare for every “what if.”
In therapy, you’ll learn how to interrupt that mental overdrive in real time — so uncertainty doesn’t dictate your decisions, relationships, or sense of safety.
Instead of over-preparing or avoiding, you’ll practice choosing what matters — even when things feel uncertain.
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Sometimes your reactions make sense when you look at what came before them. Experiences of criticism, rejection, instability, or feeling unsafe can shape how you respond to relationships, mistakes, conflict, or uncertainty now. We can work on the experiences underneath those reactions so the past has less influence over what happens in the present.
Healing doesn’t mean you’ll never feel anxious again. It means anxiety stops running your life.
FAQs
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Anxiety doesn’t have to be constant or completely debilitating for therapy to help. You may be functioning well on the outside while spending a lot of energy overthinking, second-guessing yourself, preparing for worst-case scenarios, or trying to keep everything under control. If anxiety is taking up more space in your life than you want it to, that’s something we can work on.
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Therapy isn’t just a place to talk about everything you worried about that week. We’ll look at the patterns keeping anxiety going (things like overthinking, avoidance, reassurance-seeking, perfectionism, or trying to control uncertainty) and work on responding differently. Depending on what you need, I draw from DBT and other evidence-based approaches, and we may also work with experiences underneath the anxiety rather than only managing symptoms.
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Yes. Sometimes anxiety is mostly about what’s happening in the present. Other times, current reactions are shaped by earlier experiences of criticism, rejection, instability, feeling unsafe, or having to stay very attuned to other people. You may understand logically that things are different now and still find yourself reacting as though the old threat is still there. We can work with both what’s happening now and the experiences that may be contributing to those patterns.
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That’s actually pretty common. You may understand exactly why you’re anxious and still find that your body, emotions, or automatic reactions haven’t caught up with what you know intellectually. In our work, we can build on the insight you already have while focusing more directly on changing the patterns and reactions that continue to show up.
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It depends on your goals and the patterns we’re working on.
Some clients come for focused work around anxiety or a specific life transition. Others choose longer-term therapy to untangle deeper relational or trauma patterns.
We’ll define clear goals early on and revisit them regularly — so therapy feels purposeful, not open-ended.
We’ll create a plan together and adjust as you grow.
Have more questions? Visit the About page to learn more about working together