Anxiety Treatment
Therapy for Adults
Do you find yourself overthinking things, feeling drained or on edge, or avoiding activities that are enjoyable, meaningful, or necessary? Now more than ever, people are feeling anxious from younger ages. I am passionate about helping people experience relief from anxiety and live in ways that are consistent with their goals and values.
During our treatment, you will learn to identify the thoughts and behaviors that contribute to anxiety, strengthen self-soothing and problem-solving skills, gradually face your fears, and draw on your strengths and resilience to cultivate distress tolerance.
I specialize in providing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which is considered the gold-standard treatment for anxiety and depression. With CBT, many people experience relief after a few sessions and achieve meaningful change after 12-20 sessions.
Therapy for Children and Adolescents
Watching your child struggle is one of the most difficult things. But it’s wonderful that you’re seeking support for them! I work with children and teens to teach them coping strategies to manage big feelings and to help them develop brave behaviors so that they can engage in the world with confidence. Using evidence-based therapies tailored to each child’s unique needs, I help children feel more confident, capable, and empowered. By addressing anxiety and learning tools early, before children and families have developed deeply-ingrained patterns, children can develop healthy behaviors and coping strategies. This helps build a strong foundation for children’s long-term happiness and well-being.
Parent Coaching
Parents are often a child’s “safe base” and are among the most important influences in their life. Sometimes, parents with the best intentions can act in ways that maintain a child’s anxiety over time. Other times, the child’s anxiety and the related interference can become a source of strain on the relationship. I provide parent coaching to teach caregivers practical, research-backed strategies that they can use during daily interactions with their child to reduce their child’s anxiety. Parent coaching can be combined with child therapy or can be a stand-alone intervention. Research has shown that children experience reductions in anxiety following parent participation in evidence-based parent-coaching programs, making this a particularly useful treatment for families of children who do not engage in, or benefit from, individual therapy, or for parents who feel that their children are too young for therapy.
Common Areas of Focus Include:
Generalized anxiety
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
School anxiety or avoidance
Test anxiety
Social anxiety
Panic attacks
Phobias
Perfectionism
Health/illness anxiety
Excoriation disorder (skin picking)
Trichotillomania (hair pulling)
Anxiety related to life stressors and adjustments to new situations
Evidence-Based Treatments Used
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
Exposure and response prevention (ERP)