Therapy for Anxiety

When your mind won't slow down and your body can't seem to relax—

Anxiety can show up in many different ways. You may find yourself constantly anticipating what could go wrong, overthinking conversations and decisions, having difficulty relaxing, or feeling like you need to stay one step ahead of everything.

Sometimes anxiety is experienced more physically—tension in your body, a racing heart, difficulty sleeping, restlessness, or a nervous system that seems to remain on alert even when you know you're safe.

You may understand intellectually that you're okay, yet still find it difficult to feel that way.

Therapy for anxiety can help you understand these patterns and develop a different relationship with your thoughts, emotions, and body.

When insight isn't enough

Understanding where your anxiety comes from can be helpful. But knowing *why* you feel anxious doesn't always make the anxiety go away.

My approach to anxiety therapy is experiential and body-aware. Rather than focusing only on changing anxious thoughts, we can become curious about what is happening in your experience in the present moment—your sensations, emotions, impulses, and ways of responding.

This can help you recognize the patterns beneath your anxiety and develop a greater sense of safety and choice within yourself.

Learning to feel safe, not just think safe

For some people, anxiety is connected to experiences in which they learned to remain alert, anticipate other people's reactions, or stay in control in order to feel safe. Even when circumstances change, the body can continue responding as though something needs to be watched for or managed.

Through experiential and trauma-informed work, we can gently explore these patterns and, when appropriate, use trauma reprocessing approaches to help shift the way these experiences continue to affect you.

The goal isn't to eliminate every uncomfortable feeling or to convince yourself that nothing will ever go wrong. It's to develop a greater capacity to be present with yourself—even when life feels uncertain.

Coming back to yourself

As anxiety begins to loosen its grip, you may find yourself with more room to listen to your own needs, trust your instincts, set boundaries, and make choices from a place of greater clarity rather than fear.

Therapy can become a space where you learn not only how to manage anxiety, but how to feel more at home in yourself.

Anxiety therapy in California

I provide individual psychotherapy for adults in California, integrating experiential, somatic, and trauma-informed approaches according to your needs and goals.

If anxiety has been keeping you on alert, holding you back, or making it difficult to fully experience your life, therapy can help you explore what is underneath it and begin moving toward greater ease and self-trust.

You don't have to figure it all out on your own.