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Anxiety & Trauma
Real Tools. Real Change.
Ready to stop stressing and overthinking?
Your mind rarely slows down. You replay conversations, obsess over mistakes, and analyze everything you could’ve done differently. Overthinking has become your default—even when it leaves you exhausted and overwhelmed. You tie your worth to how well you perform, trying to avoid failure at all costs. Perfectionism doesn’t protect you. It exhausts you. You’re constantly chasing a sense of “enough” that never seems to arrive.
You feel like you’re always bracing for impact. Even during calm moments, you’re waiting for something bad to happen—like you can’t fully relax because the other shoe might drop. You’re constantly scanning for danger, disappointment, or rejection, and it’s hard to trust when things are good. Rest feels unfamiliar. You’re so used to being on edge that peace almost feels unsafe.
Does this sound familiar?
You often feel overwhelmed or frustrated, and it affects your relationships and daily tasks.
You find yourself doubting your decisions, fearing, failure, or paralyzed by perfectionism.
It’s hard to enjoy good moments because you fear they won’t last.
Certain social situations stress you out - you ruminate on past interactions or worry about being judged.
You’re familiar with “what if” thoughts -imagining worst-case scenarios or overthinking everyday situations, making it difficult to feel calm or at ease.
Your body feels tense all the time—tight shoulders, headaches, trouble sleeping, that constant “on edge” feeling.
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, over-think, over-carry, and rarely feel truly settled. As a DBT-Linehan Board of Certification clinician, I use structured, evidence-based methods that go beyond talk therapy to create measurable change. My work focuses on helping high-capacity adults regulate intense emotions, process trauma thoroughly, and build lasting steadiness using DBT and EMDR.
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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When you’ve been bracing for impact for years, your system runs on survival mode. Exhaustion makes sense.
Together, we’ll map the patterns that keep your nervous system on high alert, process the experiences that wired that response, and build practical skills to help you come back to baseline more quickly.
The goal isn’t to eliminate stress — it’s to shorten the time you stay hijacked by it.
Healing doesn’t mean you’ll never feel anxious again. It means anxiety stops running your life.
FAQs
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Anxiety therapy helps you understand why your brain defaults to worst-case scenarios — and how to shift that pattern.
We’ll identify the specific thinking loops, avoidance habits, and perfectionistic standards that keep anxiety running. Then you’ll learn structured skills to interrupt those cycles and respond differently.
This isn’t just talking about stress — it’s learning how to retrain your responses to it.
I primarily use DBT-informed anxiety treatment — which means we don’t just talk about worry, we work directly with emotional intensity, avoidance patterns, and nervous system reactivity.
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Trauma therapy focuses on experiences that still carry emotional charge — even years later.
You might logically know you’re safe now, but your body reacts as if you’re not.
Using approaches like EMDR and DBT, we’ll target specific memories, beliefs, and body responses so they no longer get activated in the present. The goal isn’t to relive the past — it’s to reduce its grip on your current relationships and choices.
I am trained in EMDR therapy and integrate it with DBT skills work to ensure you have stability and regulation before we process deeper material.
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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.
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If anxiety is affecting your relationships, work, or sense of self — it may be time for support.
If you feel constantly on edge, emotionally numb, triggered by reminders of the past, or exhausted from holding it together — that’s worth paying attention to.
You don’t need a diagnosis to deserve support. If something feels off or heavier than it should, that’s enough.
Have more questions? Visit the About page to learn more about working together