Anxiety Treatment

Anxiety Is a Whole-Body Experience

Anxiety isn't just worried thoughts. It's a racing heart, a tight chest, a knot in your stomach, difficulty breathing, muscle tension, and a nervous system that won't settle down. It affects how you sleep, how you relate to people, and how you show up in your life.

If you've tried to think your way out of anxiety and it hasn't worked, that's because anxiety is a mind-body process. Effective treatment addresses the mind-body wholistically.

The Avoidance Trap

Anxiety thrives on avoidance. When you avoid situations, conversations, decisions, or experiences that make you anxious, you get temporary relief, but the anxiety grows stronger. Your world gets smaller. The things you care about get further away.

This isn't a character flaw. It's how anxiety works. Your nervous system has learned to treat normal life situations as threats, and avoidance is the brain's default response to threat. The solution isn't to force yourself through it. It's to change the pattern at its source.

How I Work With Anxiety

• ACT. Develop psychological flexibility: the ability to be present with anxious thoughts and feelings without being controlled by them, while moving toward the life you want.
• Brainspotting. Access and process the deep nervous system patterns that drive anxiety responses.
• Clinical Hypnosis. Directly calm the nervous system and build your capacity for regulation and relaxation.
• Mindfulness-based approaches. Drawing on 25+ years of meditation practice, I teach practical skills for being present with anxiety rather than fighting or fleeing from it.

Types of Anxiety I Treat

• Health anxiety
• Phobias
• Generalized anxiety disorder (persistent worry)
• Social anxiety
• Panic attacks and panic disorder
• Performance anxiety
• Anxiety related to chronic pain or medical conditions
• Anxiety rooted in trauma

Note: I do not treat OCD. If you're looking for OCD-specific treatment, I'm happy to help you find a specialist.

The Connection Between Anxiety and Pain

Anxiety and chronic pain frequently co-occur, and they share common neuroscience. Both involve a sensitized nervous system that's stuck in threat mode. The same approaches that help retrain pain pathways, like PRT, Brainspotting, and somatic awareness, also help resolve anxiety patterns.

If you're dealing with both anxiety and chronic pain, you're not dealing with two separate problems. You're dealing with one nervous system that needs help finding its way back to safety.

What Recovery Looks Like

The goal isn't to never feel anxious again. Anxiety is a normal human emotion. The goal is to change your relationship with anxiety so that it no longer runs your life. To be able to feel anxious and still show up. To make decisions based on your values, not your fears.