Anxiety can make you feel as though you always need to be prepared for what might go wrong. You may spend a lot of time worrying, avoiding certain situations, monitoring physical sensations, or relying on habits that help you feel safer in the moment. Even when you recognize that anxiety is limiting your life, responding differently can feel difficult.
I use evidence-based approaches—including interoceptive exposure, Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to treat panic, phobias, social anxiety, health anxiety, generalized anxiety, and other anxiety-related concerns. Treatment is collaborative and tailored to the fears and patterns affecting you.
Treatment For Anxiety
The goal isn’t to eliminate anxiety completely. It’s to help you feel more capable of navigating discomfort and uncertainty so anxiety has less influence over the choices you make.
Interoceptive exposure helps you practice experiencing physical sensations associated with anxiety, such as a racing heart, dizziness, breathlessness, or feeling warm. Over time, you can learn to interpret these sensations differently and feel less controlled by the fear of them.
ERP help you gradually approach situations, sensations, or experiences anxiety has taught you to fear while reducing avoidance, reassurance seeking, and other safety behaviors. We’ll work together to choose steps that feel challenging but manageable.
CBT helps us understand the connections among your thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and environment. Rather than treating every anxious thought as something you need to prove wrong, we’ll explore the patterns keeping anxiety going and practice more flexible ways of responding.
You Can Build a Life That Isn’t Organized Around Anxiety
Anxiety can convince you that you need to feel certain, calm, or completely ready before you can move forward. Treatment can help you build a different relationship with anxiety one where uncomfortable thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations don’t have to determine what you do next. Together, we can work toward approaching what you’ve been avoiding, making room for uncertainty, and building confidence in your ability to handle discomfort when it shows up.