Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety is exhausting precisely because it is trying to help. It scans for danger, rehearses conversations, and keeps you ready for something that may never come — and it does not stop when you ask it to.

Therapy will not remove every anxious thought, and it should not. The goal is a different relationship with them: noticing the alarm without being commanded by it, and getting your choices back.

What this can look like

• Persistent worry that is difficult to control
• Panic attacks — racing heart, breathlessness, a sense of losing control
• Phobias that shape where you will and will not go
• Avoiding situations, then feeling worse for having avoided them
• Physical strain: disrupted sleep, tension, stomach trouble, fatigue

How we work

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps you identify and reframe anxious thinking. DBT skills give you something concrete for the moments when distress spikes. Where anxiety is tangled up in family patterns, Family Systems Therapy helps make sense of where it learned to live.