You’ve been called the worrier for a few years now – or the quiet one. Anxiety and depression can affect far more than your mood. They can shape how you think, relate to others, make decisions, experience yourself, and move through your everyday life.
Anxiety and depression don’t always look the way people expect. You may be meeting your responsibilities, showing up for work or family, and appearing to have it together while privately feeling overwhelmed, depleted, disconnected, or constantly on edge.
Nothing in the account you give of yourself is unusual. You won’t be getting a bigger word for it from me. I’ll take apart how you think about yourself.
You rewrite the message to yourself until the wording can’t be used against you. Overthinking is an attribute that applies to almost everything you do.
The negative self-talk convinces you that you’re never doing enough. Constant criticism from the voice in your head can sound like the truth.
Anxiety makes it difficult to relax or be present. Depression works the opposite – you lack motivation to start a project… and no urgency to finish one you’ve begun.
Therapy can help you understand what’s happening, develop tools that work for you, and begin creating movement where things have felt stuck.
Effective therapy goes beyond simply managing symptoms. Together, we’ll explore what may be contributing to the way you’re feeling and identify the patterns that keep anxiety or depression going.
That might include the way you respond to stress, expectations you’ve placed on yourself, relationship dynamics, unresolved experiences, difficult emotions, or beliefs you’ve developed about yourself and the world around you.
Understanding the pattern is the beginning. Learning how to change it is where therapy becomes active.
That’s the loop. It’s why trying harder has never touched the anxiety or the depression.
We’ll start by building you something to use when the discomfort turns up instead.
The goal is not to eliminate every uncomfortable feeling. It’s to help you develop greater flexibility, confidence, and choice in how you respond to life.
I’ll actively engage with you in identifying strategies, skills, and therapeutic approaches that support your specific goals.
When anxiety or depression takes up too much space, life can become about getting through the next task, the next day, or the next difficult moment. Therapy can help create room for something more.
As you develop new tools and a deeper understanding of yourself, you can begin to reconnect with the parts of life that matter to you – your relationships, your interests, your values, your goals, and your sense of purpose.
Because feeling better isn’t the only goal – the goal is to feel more present, capable, connected, and engaged in your own life.
You don’t need to know exactly why you’re struggling or have a clear plan for how to change it. That’s part of what therapy is for.
We’ll start where you are, make sense of what you’re experiencing, and identify the next steps together. My approach is collaborative and engaged, with the belief that therapy should give you both a place to be understood and the tools to help you move forward.
There is a difference between simply managing your life and feeling fully engaged in it.
If anxiety or depression is getting in the way of the life you want, therapy can help you begin to create something different – with greater purpose, intention, connection, and fulfillment.
My favorite day in your therapy is the day you tell me you don’t need me anymore. I’m aiming at it from the first session.
You’ll get a therapist who says the hard thing instead of waiting for you to find it yourself. What I ask back is short, and none of it is easy.
Do that, and you get to find out which parts of this life you’d pick.
