Anxiety therapy

Anxiety therapy is counseling specifically focused on helping you understand, manage, and reduce your anxiety. Depending on the approach, it might involve exploring thought patterns (like in CBT), working with the nervous system's physical responses (like in somatic therapy), or a combination of both. The goal isn't just managing symptoms. It's building the capacity to actually feel safe in your body and your life over time.

Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a body-based therapeutic approach developed by Dr. Peter Levine that works with the nervous system's stored stress and trauma responses, not just thoughts and emotions. Rather than analyzing why you feel anxious, SE helps you notice and gently release the physical sensations that keep anxiety cycles active: tension, bracing, shallow breathing, a sense of dread with no clear cause. For people whose anxiety is rooted in trauma or chronic stress, Somatic Experiencing can offer another way to work with the body's responses alongside the insight and coping skills developed in talk therapy.

If anxiety is interfering with your daily life, your sleep, your relationships, your ability to focus, or your sense of wellbeing, that's reason enough to seek support. You don't need to be in crisis. Many of my clients come to therapy because they're high-functioning but exhausted. They manage everything on the outside while feeling overwhelmed on the inside. If that resonates, a consultation is a great next step.

Yes! Telehealth sessions are available to clients located anywhere in Florida and Connecticut. Telehealth anxiety therapy follows the same structured, evidence-based approach as in-person sessions. Sessions are conducted via a secure, HIPAA-compliant video platform, and many of my clients find that the flexibility of telehealth actually makes it easier to stay consistent with their healing.

It depends on what we're working with. Many clients notice meaningful shifts within 8 to 12 sessions. Anxiety with roots in trauma or long-standing nervous system patterns often benefits from longer-term work, typically 6 months to a year or more. During your initial consultation, I'll give you a realistic sense of what a timeline might look like for your specific situation.

They work differently, and they're not mutually exclusive. Medication can help take the edge off, especially in the short term. Therapy, especially body-based approaches like Somatic Experiencing, gets at the underlying patterns that keep the anxiety running. It builds your system's capacity to regulate on its own. Many of my clients use both. Some use therapy alone. That's a conversation best had with your prescribing provider and therapist together.

Absolutely. And for trauma-related anxiety, the approach you choose matters a lot. Talk therapy can be helpful, but sometimes it isn't enough when anxiety is driven by your nervous system still being stuck in survival mode from past experiences. Somatic Experiencing was developed specifically to address this: the way the body holds onto threat long after the threat is gone. If you've tried therapy before and talking about it didn't bring lasting relief, a somatic approach may be the missing piece.

I'm an out-of-network provider. I provide superbills (an itemized receipt you submit to your insurance for reimbursement) upon request. Payments are accepted via Zelle or private Venmo. Please contact me directly to discuss current rates and whether your out-of-network benefits may apply. Many clients find that their plans cover a significant portion of session costs through out-of-network reimbursement.

I work with a range of anxiety presentations in adults, including generalized anxiety disorder (persistent, hard-to-control worry), social anxiety, panic attacks, health anxiety, anxiety related to life transitions or chronic stress, and anxiety with underlying trauma. If you're unsure whether your experience fits, the initial consultation is the right place to explore that. You don't need to arrive with a diagnosis.

This is one of the most common things people share before we start working together. If previous therapy felt supportive but didn't produce lasting change, particularly around anxiety that lives in your body, it's worth considering whether the approach was the right fit for your specific pattern. Somatic Experiencing reaches a different layer than talk therapy alone. Many of my clients who describe themselves as "therapy veterans" find that body-based work shifts something they hadn't been able to access before.