Are you overwhelmed?

Do you always feel anxious and find it difficult to relax?

Do you worry excessively and anticipate the worst?

Do you have headaches, muscle aches, and/or stomach aches?

Do you wish that you could feel contentment?

Everyone suffers from moments of anxiety and stress. However, when your experience of anxiety feels like it’s taking over your life and preventing you from fully enjoying your life, then it may be time to reach out for help.

It’s important to recognize that anxiety is natural to our human experience. We are wired to experience a reasonable amount of anxiety for adaptive purposes. A physiological response, known as the “fight/flight/freeze” or stress response, takes place in the body to prepare us to fight for our lives, flee, or freeze. It is a protective response that activates when we are faced with real danger. Unfortunately, it can activate when there is no real danger; only perceived danger.

The mind-body connection is very powerful. What we think and say to ourselves can directly affect how we feel. Your body can respond to chronic worry and negative thinking with headaches, muscle aches, stomach aches, and other stress-related symptoms. You don’t have to suffer. You can learn to change your anxious thoughts and stop excessive worry.

Integrating interventions from cognitive-behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and mindfulness-based interventions, I can help you learn to use your own mind to experience relief from anxiety. Often, there are underlying issues that cause worry and anxiety and a course of treatment individualized to explore those issues can result in the inner healing that is necessary for change. I have helped people calm the turmoil of uncertainty and worry by increasing their confidence in their ability to effectively manage feelings of anxiety.