Self-help tools such as books, apps, mindfulness practices, and other coping strategies can be helpful, but therapy offers something different: a collaborative relationship where we can slow down and explore what is happening beneath the patterns.

Together, we look at how anxiety, perfectionism, and self-pressure show up in your thoughts, body, relationships, and everyday choices. A relational, somatic, attachment-focused, and IFS-informed approach allows us to understand these patterns in the context of your unique experiences rather than simply trying to manage symptoms on your own.

Therapy also gives you space to practice responding differently—with greater self-compassion, flexibility, and self-trust—while having someone alongside you to help make sense of what you’re experiencing.

Anxiety doesn’t always have an obvious cause. Sometimes your mind or body responds to uncertainty, stress, or perceived threat before you’re consciously aware of what has triggered it. For some people, these responses are also shaped by earlier experiences, relationships, or patterns of needing to stay alert, prepared, or in control.

Together, we can become curious about what may be happening beneath the anxiety without assuming there has to be one specific explanation. By noticing your thoughts, body sensations, emotions, and relational patterns, you can begin to understand your experience with greater clarity and respond with more choice and self-compassion.

Yes. Anxiety can affect the body as well as the mind, sometimes showing up as muscle tension, headaches, digestive discomfort, restlessness, or difficulty sleeping. In therapy, we can explore how stress and anxiety are showing up in your body and develop greater awareness of your physical and emotional responses.

Somatic practices can help you slow down, notice what your body is communicating, and develop ways of responding to stress with greater ease. We may also explore the thoughts, emotions, and relational patterns that contribute to ongoing stress and tension.

If you’re experiencing new, severe, or persistent physical symptoms, it’s also important to consult with a medical professional to rule out underlying medical causes.

Not necessarily. Whether medication is helpful depends on your individual circumstances, preferences, symptoms, and treatment goals. Some people benefit from therapy alone, while others find that a combination of therapy and medication provides additional support.

If you’re considering medication or already take it, we can incorporate that into our work and, with your permission, collaborate with your prescribing provider as needed. My role is to support you in understanding your experience and finding an approach to care that feels appropriate for you.

Everyone’s experience is different. Some people begin to notice changes in their awareness or relationship to anxiety within a few sessions, while others benefit from longer-term support as they work through deeper patterns.

Therapy is not only about reducing anxious feelings. It’s also about developing greater flexibility, self-compassion, and self-trust—so you can respond differently to worry, perfectionism, uncertainty, and self-criticism over time. We’ll move at a pace that feels appropriate for your needs and goals.

I use an integrative, relational, somatic, attachment-focused, and trauma-informed approach, drawing from several complementary frameworks based on your individual needs:

• Relational & attachment-focused therapy: exploring how your relationships, attachment experiences, and early relational patterns may shape anxiety, self-pressure, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and self-criticism

• Internal Family Systems (IFS) parts work: approaching the parts of you that strive, criticize, anticipate, or protect with curiosity and compassion

• Somatic therapy: noticing how anxiety and stress show up in your body and developing greater awareness of physical and emotional responses

• Nervous system and stress-cycle work: learning about the body's stress response and exploring practices that support completion of stress responses, recovery, and greater flexibility

• Mindfulness: cultivating awareness of thoughts, emotions, and sensations without automatically reacting to them

Absolutely. Social anxiety and fear of judgment can make it difficult to feel at ease around others, speak openly, or trust yourself in social situations. In therapy, we explore the thoughts, body responses, and relational patterns that may contribute to these fears, including self-criticism and worries about how others perceive you.

Through relational, attachment-focused, somatic, and IFS-informed work, we can develop greater awareness of what happens when you feel exposed or judged and practice responding with more self-compassion and flexibility rather than automatically withdrawing, people-pleasing, or avoiding.

If anxiety feels like it is taking up too much space in your life, you don’t have to figure it out alone. Therapy offers a space to slow down, understand the patterns beneath your anxiety, and develop greater choice in how you respond.

Together, we can explore the thoughts, emotions, body responses, and relational patterns that keep anxiety going. Over time, you may find it easier to tolerate uncertainty, make decisions, set boundaries, and stay connected to yourself even when anxiety arises.

The goal isn’t to control or eliminate anxiety. It’s to feel less defined or directed by it, with greater flexibility, self-trust, and freedom in how you move through your life.

Panic attacks can be frightening and exhausting, especially when you’re worried about when the next one might happen. In therapy, we can explore what happens in your body and mind during panic and develop ways to respond with greater awareness and steadiness.

Somatic practices can help you become more familiar with the physical sensations of panic without immediately interpreting them as dangerous. We can also explore the thoughts, emotions, and protective patterns that may intensify fear, while building greater capacity to stay present when uncomfortable sensations arise.

Over time, therapy can help you feel less afraid of the sensations themselves and develop greater confidence in your ability to move through moments of panic when they occur.

No. While conversation and reflection are an important part of therapy, our work can also include attention to your body, emotions, relationships, and internal experiences.

A somatic approach helps you notice how anxiety shows up in your body, while IFS-informed parts work can help you understand the protective patterns behind worry, perfectionism, people-pleasing, or self-criticism. Relational and attachment-focused work helps us explore how your experiences and relationships may have shaped these patterns, while mindfulness can support greater awareness of thoughts and emotions without automatically reacting to them.

The specific practices we use will depend on your needs and preferences. Therapy is collaborative and individualized—not a one-size-fits-all set of techniques.

Yes. For some people, anxiety is connected to past experiences of trauma, chronic stress, or relational experiences that shaped how they respond to perceived threat and uncertainty. These experiences can continue to influence the body and mind even when the original circumstances are no longer present.

In therapy, we can explore the connection between your current anxiety and past experiences while staying grounded in the present. Somatic and trauma-informed approaches can help you notice how these experiences show up in your body, while relational, attachment-focused, and IFS-informed work can help you understand the patterns that developed around them.

We don't need to assume that every anxious response comes from trauma, and you don't need to have a specific traumatic memory to benefit from this work. Together, we focus on understanding your experience and developing greater choice, self-trust, and flexibility in how you respond.

Absolutely. Therapy is a collaborative process, and the goal is for you to develop tools and understanding that you can carry into your everyday life. Alongside exploring the patterns beneath your anxiety and perfectionism, we’ll practice ways to notice anxious thoughts, respond to body sensations, navigate stress, and create more space between a feeling and your reaction to it.

Over time, you can build greater confidence in your ability to meet anxiety when it arises rather than feeling like you need to eliminate it or control every uncomfortable feeling. The skills we develop together are tailored to your needs and become resources you can draw on outside of therapy.