Anxiety Therapy
Most people arriving with anxiety have already been told to breathe, to challenge the thought, to reduce caffeine, to try a worry window. Often they've done it. Often it helped a bit. If it had been enough you wouldn't be reading this page.
A different question
Rather than asking how to manage the anxiety, I tend to ask what it's protecting you from. Anxiety is frequently a nervous system doing its job with old information — braced against something that was genuinely dangerous once and isn't anymore.
Managing it treats the alarm. The work here is about the wiring underneath. That's why anxiety and trauma turn up together so often, and why anxiety that seems to have no cause usually has one, just not one that's obvious.
What we actually do
EFT tapping gives you something physical to do with the feeling in the moment — rhythmic tapping on meridian points while the feeling is present. Many clients keep using it between sessions; it's one of the tools I most like sending people home with.
EMDR goes after the original experiences the anxiety is still responding to.
Brainspotting locates where the anxiety is held and processes it there, which is often useful when you can feel it clearly in your body but can't explain it.
Flash Technique when there's a specific frightening memory feeding it and approaching it directly is too much.
What tends to change
Not the disappearance of anxiety — you want some. What people describe is proportion returning: the response matching the situation, recovery getting quicker, the background hum quieting.
Sessions are 50 minutes weekly, in person in Albany or online across California and Texas, with extended and intensive formats available.
The kinds of anxiety people bring here
- The constant low hum that never quite resolves
- Panic that arrives without warning
- Dread in social or professional situations
- Performance anxiety — musicians, athletes, students, people whose work is public
- Anxiety that appeared after a specific event and never left
- Health anxiety following a medical experience
Tried managing it and want to go underneath it?
Start with a free 15-minute consultation.