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anxiety
You hold it all together beautifully.
Inside, it’s a different story.
Online anxiety therapy for sensitive, creative adults across California.
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Maybe this sounds familiar…
- You can spend an hour on a two-line email and still wonder how it landed.
- You notice the shift in someone’s mood before they’ve said a word.
- You can usually tell what everyone else needs. What you need is harder to name.
- You had a feeling about it from the start. You talked yourself out of it anyway.
- There’s something you want to make, write or build, and somehow it keeps not happening.
- You’re the one people count on. They’d be surprised to know how often you doubt yourself.
What if it isn’t only anxiety?
What gets called anxiety is often several feelings arriving at once. Worry, yes, but also sadness, anger, excitement or longing, all tangled together and hard to tell apart.
Many of the people I work with are highly sensitive and were never told so. They take in more, feel more and think it all through more deeply. Many are also very creative, and when that energy has nowhere to go, the mind uses it to rehearse everything that could go wrong.
None of this means something is wrong with you. It means you have a finely tuned system that nobody taught you how to use.
What we work toward
- A mind that can settle, even when things are unfinished.
- Telling one feeling from another, so “anxious” stops being the word for everything.
- Trusting your intuition instead of talking yourself out of it.
- Knowing what you need as clearly as you know what everyone else needs.
- Doing good work without it having to be perfect first.
- Somewhere for your creativity to go that isn’t worry.
How we work together
Untangle
We slow down and look at what is underneath the anxiety, separating the feelings that have been arriving all at once so each one can be understood.
Settle
You learn practical ways to calm your body and quiet the loop of thoughts, so the hard moments pass sooner and feel less frightening.
Trust
Over time you come to rely on your sensitivity and intuition instead of doubting them, and your creative energy has somewhere better to go.
Anxiety often travels with…
“Your relationship with yourself is the foundation for all psychological growth.”
Dr. Cindy T. Denkhaus
Questions you might have
Is this anxiety, or am I a highly sensitive person?
It can be both. High sensitivity is a temperament, not a disorder, and it often goes unrecognized. Many sensitive people experience the depth of what they feel as anxiety until they understand how they are wired. Part of our work is sorting out which is which.
My life looks fine on paper. Is therapy still for me?
Yes. Many of the people I work with are capable, accomplished and well liked, and still anxious underneath. This is often called high-functioning anxiety. You don’t need to be in crisis to want things to feel easier on the inside.
Do you offer online anxiety therapy in California?
Yes. I offer online therapy (telehealth) to adults across California by secure video, including San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley.
Do you take insurance?
I am an out-of-network provider. You can find the details on my Psychotherapy page.
You don’t need to figure it all out on your own.
Schedule a free consultation call and we’ll see whether working together feels right.
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