Anxiety does not look the same for everyone, and therapy should not be approached as though it does. We draw from evidence-based approaches and tailor the work to the patterns, behaviors, and experiences that are actually keeping anxiety active in your life.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Anxiety has a way of making possibilities feel like probabilities. You may know logically that something is unlikely to go wrong and still find yourself preparing for it, replaying conversations, questioning decisions, or trying to think your way into certainty.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps us examine the thoughts, assumptions, and behaviors that may be keeping anxiety going. This might include reassurance seeking, avoidance, overpreparing, excessive checking, or mentally reviewing decisions you’ve already made.
We’ll work on recognizing these patterns, examining whether anxiety’s conclusions are supported by what is actually happening, and practicing different responses when uncertainty appears.
The goal isn’t to eliminate every anxious thought. It’s to reach a point where anxiety can show up without automatically deciding what you do next.
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
Anxiety can convince you that you need to feel better before you can move forward. You may wait to feel confident before making a decision, avoid something until the anxiety settles, or put considerable energy into trying to get uncomfortable thoughts out of your head.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) takes a different approach. Instead of making the disappearance of anxiety the goal, we’ll work on changing how much influence anxiety has over your choices.
We’ll identify what genuinely matters to you and notice when decisions have begun revolving around avoiding discomfort rather than the relationships, experiences, ambitions, and values you care about.
The goal isn’t to become comfortable with everything. It’s to build a life in which discomfort gets a voice, but not the final vote.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
Sometimes the most exhausting part of anxiety isn’t one particular thought. It’s how quickly one thought becomes ten. A concern turns into replaying, predicting, analyzing, and mentally preparing for problems that haven’t happened.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) helps you recognize when your mind has shifted from responding to what is actually happening to becoming absorbed in its own predictions, interpretations, and mental rehearsals.
We’ll also explore patterns such as perfectionism, fear of making the wrong decision, sensitivity to criticism, or excessive responsibility that can keep your mind working long after a situation requires your attention.
Mindfulness isn’t about emptying your mind. It’s about noticing where your attention has gone and deciding whether that’s where you want it to stay.